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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king of Scots vnderstanding that the bishop of Durham had giuen ouer and resigned the earle|dome of Northumberland into the kings hands, Rog. Houed. The king of Scots ma|keth suit for Northum|berland. thought good once againe to assaie if he might com|passe his desire, and herewith he began his former suit afresh, offering to king Richard fiftéene thou|sand markes of siluer for the whole earledome of Northumberland with the appurtenances, as his fa|ther earle Henrie did hold the same before. The king taking counsell in the matter, agreed that he should haue it for that monie, excepting the castels: but the king of Scots would haue castels and all, or else he would not bargaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Finallie, after he had sundrie times [...]ooued this suit for the hauing of the lands vnto which he preten|ded a title, and could get nothing of king Richard but faire words, putting him as it were in hope to obteine that he required at his next returne out of France, vpon the 22 daie of Aprill being fridaie, he tooke leaue of the king, and returned towards his countrie, not verie ioifull, in that he could not ob|teine his suit. King Richard in this meane while cau|sed all those prisoners that were taken in the castels of Notingham, Tickhill, Marleburgh, Lancaster, and S. Michaels mount,Mainprise. which were of any wealth to be put in prison, that they might fine for their ran|soms. The residue he suffered to depart vpon suer|ties, that were bound for them in an hundreth marks a peece, to be forth comming when they should be called.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now the king (after he had gathered a great por|tion of monie, and ordeined diuerse things for the be|hoofe of the common-wealth, thereby to satisfie the harts of the people) prepared himselfe to saile into Normandie. Rog. Houed. But first he reconciled the archbishop of Yorke, and the bishop of Elie lord chancellour, as|well for the apprehension & imprisoning of the arch|bishop at Douer, as for the dishonourable expulsion of the chancellour out of England, in such wise that the chancellour should vpon reasonable summons giuen to him by the archbishop, sweare with the hands of an hundred préests with him, that he neither commanded nor willed that the archbishop should be apprehended. The controuersie betwixt the two archbishops about the bearing of their crosses, the king would not meddle withall, for (as he said) that perteined to the pope. Yet the archbishop of Cantur|burie complained to king Richard of the iniurie doone to him at that present by the archbishop of Yorke, presuming within his prouince to haue his crosse borne before him. At length when the kings prouision was once readie for his voiage into Nor|mandie, he came to Douer, and hearing that the French king had besieged the towne of Uernueil, and that the same was in danger to be taken, he tooke the sea togither with his mother quéene Elia|nor on the ninth daie of Maie,The king transporteth ouer into France. and transporting ouer into Normandie, arriued at Harfléet with an hun|dred great ships fraught with men, horsses and ar|mour.

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