Compare 1577 edition: 1 The two chaplins had their mouths stopped with these words thus by the king vttered, and so departed their waies. The bishop being still deteined in pri|son, procured suit to be made to the pope for his deli|uerance: but the pope, being truelie informed of the matter, and wiselie considering that the king had not taken the bishop preaching, but fighting, and kept him prisoner rather as a rough enimie, than as a peaceable prelat, would not be earnest with the king for his deliuerance, but rather reprooued the bi|shop, in that he had preferred secular warfare before the spirituall, and had taken vpon him the vse of a speare in stéed of a crosier, an helmet in steed of a mi|ter, an herbergeon in stéed of a white rocket, a target for a stoale, and an iron sword in lieu of the spirituall sword: and therefore he refused to vse any comman|dement to king Richard for the setting of him at li|bertie. But yet he promised to doo what he could by waie of intreating, that he might be released.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 It is reported by some writers, that the pope at first, not vnderstanding the truth of the whole cir|cumstance, should send to king Richard, comman|ding him by force of the canons of the church to deli|uer his sons the bishop and archdeacon out of their captiuitie. To whom the king sent their armour with this message written in Latine,
Vide an tunica filij tui sit an non, that is, See whether these are the garments of thy sonnes or not: alluding to the saieng of those that caried Iosephs coate to Iacob. Genes. 37. Which when the pope saw, he said:
Naie by S. Peter, it is neither the apparell of my sonnes, nor yet of my brethren: but rather they are the vestures of the children of Mars: and so he left them still to be ransomed at the kings pleasure. The bishop thus séeing no hope to be deli|uered without some agréement had betwixt the two kings, became now through irkesomnesse of his bonds, an earnest mediatour for peace, whereas be|fore he had beene an extreme stirrer vp of war. Such a schoolemaister is imprisonment, & plucker downe of loftie courages. But to proceed.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Anno Reg. 8.About the same time the archbishop of Rouen put all the countrie of Normandie vnder sentence of in|terdiction, bicause king Richard had begun to fortifie a castell at Lisle Dandelie,Normandie interdicted by ye archbishop of Rouen. vpon a péece of ground which the archbishop claimed to apperteine vnto his sée. The matter was brought before the pope, who perceiuing the intent of king Richard was not o|therwise grounded vpon any couetous purpose to defraud the church of hir right, but onelie to build a fortresse in such place as was most expedient for de|fense of the countrie about, to preserue it from inua|sion of the enimies; he counselled the archbishop not to stand against the king in it, but to exchange with him for some other lands: which was doone, and the interdiction by the pope released. The bishop of Elie lord chancellour, being sent about this businesse towards Rome,The bishop of Elie departed this life. departed this life by the way at Poictiers, in Ianuarie.