Compare 1577 edition: 1 He was noted to be of a verie perfect life, name|lie, bicause he would not sticke to reprooue men of their faults plainelie and frankelie, not regarding the fauour or disfauour of any man, in somuch that he would not feare to pronounce them accurssed, which being the kings officers, would take vpon them the punishment of any person within orders of the church, for hunting and killing of the kings game within his parkes, forrests and chases, yea (and that which is more) he would denie paiments of such subsidies and taxes as he was assessed to paie to the vses of king Richard and king Iohn,A presumptu|ous part in a bishop. towards the maintenance of their wars, and did oftentimes ac|cursse by his ecclesiasticall authoritie, such shiriffes, collectors, or other officers, as did distreine vpon his lands and goods for to satisfie these kings of their de|mands, alledging openlie, that he would not paie a|ny monie towards the maintenance of wars, which one christian prince, vpon priuate displeasure and grudge, made against another prince of the same re|ligion. This was his reason.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 And when he came before the king to make answer to his disobedience shewed herein, he would so han|dle the matter, partlie with gentle admonishments, partlie with sharpe reproofes, and sometime mixing merrie and pleasant spéech amongst his serious ar|guments, that often times he would so qualifie the kings mood, that being driuen from anger, he could not but laugh and smile at the bishops pleasant talke EEBO page image 163 and merrie conceits, so that it might well be said of him,
Omne tulit punctum quimiscuit vtile dulci.This maner he vsed, not onelie with the king alone, but with the father and the two sonnes, that is to say, Henrie the second, Richard and Iohn, in whose time he ruled and gouerned the sée of Lincolne. He was after his decesse, for the opinion which men con|ceiued of his holinesse and vertues, admitted into the number of the saints.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Yee haue heard how king Iohn had conceiued no small displeasure against the moonks of the white or|der, for that they would not part with any monie, excusing themselues that they might not doo it, with|out consent of a generall chapiter of their order. Wherevpon the king had caused them diuerse waies to be molested, but cheefelie in restreining them of libertie to haue any horsses or other cattell going to pasture within his forrests. They therefore taking aduise togither, chose foorth twelue abbats amongst them of that order, the which in all [...]heir names went to Lincolne, there to make suit to the king (comming thither at this time to méet the king of Scots) that it would please him to remit his displeasure conceiued against them, and to take them againe into his protection.