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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 6 of 24: Richard the first, second sonne to Henrie the second.
Snippet: 241 of 324 (1587, Volume 6, p. 147)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶All this was [...]th pleasant and profitable for king Richards soules helth (as may [...] thought) bicause he tooke occasion therof to amend hi [...] owne former [...] by considering how much he might be reprehe [...]e [...] for his sundrie faults committed both against God and man. A maruellous matter to [...]eare, how much frõ that time forward he reformed his former trade of liuing into a better forme & order. Moreouer, the emperour gaue to the Ci [...]teau [...] moonks 3000 marks of siluer, parcell of king Richards ransome,White monks to make siluer censers in euerie church throughout where they had any houses: but the abbats of the same order re|fused the gift, being a portion of so wrongfull and vn|godlie a gaine. At which thing, when it came to the knowledge of K. Richard, he greatlie maruelled at the first, but after commended the abbats in their dooings, and cheeflie for shewing that they were void of the accustomed gréedinesse of hauing, which most men supposed them to be much infected withall.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 6 of 24: Richard the first, second sonne to Henrie the second.
Snippet: 242 of 324 (1587, Volume 6, p. 147)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 King Richard this yeare pardoned Hugh Nouant bishop of Couentrie of all his wrath and displeasure conceiued toward him, Rog. Houed. Hugh Nouãt bishop of Co|uentrie resto|red to his sée. and restored to him his bi|shoprike for fiue thousand marks of siluer. But Ro|bert Nouant the same bishops brother died in the kings prison at Douer. Also whereas the archbishop of Yorke had offended king Richard,The archbish|op of Yorke. he pardoned him, and receiued him againe into fauour, with the kisse of peace. Wherevpon the archbishop waxed so proud, that vsing the king reprochfullie, he lost his archbishoprike, the rule of Yorkeshire which he had in gouernment as shiriffe, the fauour of his soue|reigne, and (which was the greatest losse of all) the loue of God. For

Nemo superbus amat superos, nec amatur ab illis,M. Pal. in suo sag.
Vult humiles Deus ac mites, habitát libenter
Mansuetos animos procul ambitione remotos,
Inflatos verò ac ventosos deprimit idem,
Nec patitur secum puro consistere olympo.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 6 of 24: Richard the first, second sonne to Henrie the second.
Snippet: 243 of 324 (1587, Volume 6, p. 147)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Moreouer, through the kings request, pope Cele|stine this yeare made the archbishop of Canturbu|rie legat of all England by his buls directed to him,

Pope Cele|stine.

The archbish. of Canturbu|rie is made y^ [...] popes legat.

bearing date at his palace in Rome called Lateran the fifteenth kalends of Aprill, in the fourth yeare of his papasie. Furthermore, the pope wrote to the English cleargie, giuing them to vnderstand that he had created the said archbishop of Canturburie his legat, commanding them so to accept him: by vertue of which letters,A trinitie of offices in vni|tie of person. the archbishop Hubert being now both archbishop of Canturburie, legat of the apostolike sée, and lord chéefe iustice of England, appointed to hold a councell at Yorke, and therefore gaue knowledge by the abbat of Binham in North|folke, and one maister Geruise, vnto the canons of Yorke, and to the archbishops officials of his purpo|sed intention.

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