Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 ¶ These things being brought to this issue, the fur|ther narration of them shall staie for a time, till I haue told you of a little trouble which about this time happened in London. For vpon the seauenth of Iune, the bailiffes of London, Roger Winchester and Edmund Hardell were discharged,Bailiffes o [...] London dis|charged and committed to+ward. and Serle the mercer and Hugh of saint Albons chosen in their roomes. The two former bailiffes were discharged and committed to prison by the kings commande|ment, vpon displeasure taken against them, bicause they had resisted his purueier of wheat, and wo [...]l [...] not suffer him to conueie anie of that kind of graine out of the citie, till the citie was stored. The thirtie & fiue rulers of the citie, hauing fulfilled the kings commandement to them directed for the discharging of those bailiffes, and imprisoning them, did after take aduice togither, and appointed a certeine num|ber of themselues with other to ride vnto the king, as then being at Langley, to obteine pardon for the said bailiffes, and so comming thither, they made such excuse in the matter, shewing further, that at the same season there was such scarsitie of wheat in the citie, that the common people were at point to haue made an insurrection about the same. By which means, and through freendship which they had in the court, the king was so satisfied, that he released them from prison, and pardoned their offenses.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also vpon the first of October,The birth of king Henrie the third. N. Triuet. Henrie the sonne of king Iohn, begotten of his wife quéene Isabell, was borne at Winchester, who after succeeded his father in the kingdome. But now againe to our pur|pose. The pope perceiuing that king Iohn continued still in his former mind (which he called obstinacie) sent ouer his bulles into England,The pope writeth to the bishops. Matt. Paris. Nic. Treue [...]. directed to Willi|am bishop of London, to Eustace bishop of Elie, and to Mauger bishop of Worcester, commanding them that vnlesse king Iohn would suffer peaceablie the archbishop of Canturburie to occupie his see, and his moonks their abbie, they should put both him and EEBO page image 172 his land vnder the sentence of interdiction, denoun|cing him and his land plainelie accurssed. And fur|ther he wrote expresse letters vnto all the suffragans of the church of Canturburie, that they should by vertue of their obedience, Matth. Paris. which they owght to the [...]|postolike sée, receiue and obeie the archbishop Ste|phan for their father and metropolitane.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These bishops with other to them associate, made instant request and suit to the king for the obseruing of the popes commandement, and to eschew the cen|sures of the church, but that was in vaine: for the king in a great rage sware, that if either they or any other presumed to put his land vnder interdiction, he would incontinentlie therevpon send all the prelats within the realme out of the same vnto the pope, and seize all their good [...] vnto his owne vse. And further he added,Romans, that is such chap|leines stran|gers as be|longed to the pope. that what Romans soeuer he found within the precinct of any his dominions, he would put out their eies, and slit their noses, and so send them pack|ing to Rome, that by such marks they might be knowne from all other nations of the world. And herewith he commanded the bishops to packe out of his sight, if they loued their owne health and preser|uation.