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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 This suit was so followed, although with some dif|ficultie, that at length, to wit, the sundaie after that the king of Scots had doone his homage, through the helpe and furtherance of the archbishop of Cantur|burie, they came to the kings spéech, and obteined so much, as they in reason might desire: for he pardo|ned them of all his passed displeasure, receiued them againe into his fauour, tooke them into his protecti|on, and commanded that all iniuries, greeuances and molestations should be reformed, redressed and amended, which in respect of his indignation had béene offered and doone to them by any manner of meanes. And to see the same accomplished, writs were directed vnto the shiriffes of the counties, bea|ring date from Lincolne the 27 of Nouember. And thus were those moonks for that time restored to the kings fauour, to their great commoditie and comfort.