Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ Touching the maner of this interdiction there haue béene diuerse opinions, Fabian. some haue said, that the land was interdicted throughlie, and the churches and houses of religion closed vp, that no where was anie diuine seruice vsed: but it was not so streit, for there were diuerse places occupied with diuine seruice all that time, Matth. Paris. by certeine priuiledges purchased either then or before. Children were also christened, and men houseled and annoiled through all the land, except such as were in the bill of excommunication by name expressed. But to our purpose.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Iohn, after that the legats were returned to|ward Rome againe, punished diuerse of those per|sons which had refused to go with him into Wales, in like maner as he had doone those that refused to go with him into Scotland: he tooke now of ech of them for euerie knights fée two marks of siluer, as before is recited. About the same time also, Regi|nald earle of Bullongne being accursed in like ma|ner as king Iohn was,Reginald erle of Bullongne. for certeine oppressions doone to poore men, and namelie to certeine preests, fled o|uer into England, bicause the French king had ba|nished him out of France.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The chéefest cause of the French kings displea|sure towards this earle,The like lea|gue was made in the same first yeare of king Iohn betwixt him & Ferdinan|do earle of Flanders. may séeme to proceed of the amitie and league which was concluded betwixt king Iohn, and the said earle, in the first yeare of the said kings reigne, whereby they bound themselues either to other, not to make anie peace, or to take a|nie truce with the king of France, without either o|thers consent first thereto had, and that if after anie agréement taken betwixt them and the king of France, he should chance to make warre against ei|ther of them, then should the other aid and assist him, against whom such warre should be made, to the vt|termost of his power.