Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon the said bishops departed, and accor|ding to the popes commission to them sent, vpon the euen of the Annuntiation of our Ladie,The mondaie in the passion weeke saith Matth West. The king and realme put vn+der the popes cursse. denoun|ced both the king and the realme of England accur|sed, and furthermore caused the doores of churches to be closed vp, and all other places where diuine seruice was accustomed to be vsed, first at London, and af|ter in all other places where they came. Then percei|uing that the K. ment not to stoope for all this which they had doone, but rather sought to be reuenged vp|on them, they fled the realme, and got them ouer vn|to Stephan the archbishop of Canturburie, to wit, William bishop of London, Eustace bishop of Elie, Malger bishop of Worcester, Ioceline bishop of Bath, and Giles bishop of Hereford.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Anno Reg. 10. The dealing of the king af|ter the inter|diction was pronounced.The king taking this matter in verie great dis|pleasure, seized vpon all their temporalties, and con|uerted the same to his vse, and persecuted such other of the prelacie as he knew to fauour their dooings, banishing them the realme, and seizing their goods also into his hands. Howbeit the most part of the pre|lats wiselie prouided for themselues in this point, so that they would not depart out of their houses, except they were compelled by force, which when the kings officers perceiued, they suffered them to remaine still in their abbies, and other habitations, bicause they had no commission to vse any violence in expelling them. But their goods they did confiscat to the kings vse, allowing them onelie meat and drinke, and that verie barelie in respect of their former allowance.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ It was a miserable time now for preests and churchmen,An heauie time for churchmen. which were spoiled on euerie hand, with|out finding remedie against those that offered them wrong. It is reported that in the borders of Wales, the officers of a shiriffe brought before the king a fel|low which had robbed and slaine a préest, desiring to vnderstand his pleasure what should be doone with that offender: vnto whome the king made this an|swer, He hath slaine mine enimie, and therefore set him at libertie. Matth. Paris.