Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this hurlie burlie also the lords and péeres of the realme (by the setting on of the archbishop) were ear|nestlie bent to haue the king to restore and confirme the grant which his grandfather king Henrie the first had by his charter granted and confirmed to his sub|iects, which to doo, king Iohn thought greatlie preiu|diciall to his roiall estate and dignitie. The earle of Tholouse hauing lost all his possessions, Ralfe Cog. The earle of Tholouse. the citie of Tholouse onelie excepted, came ouer into England, & rendred the said citie into the hands of king Iohn, and receiued at his departure, the summe of ten thou|sand marks as was reported, by the bountifull gift of king Iohn.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Upon the second of October, Matth. Paris. Geffrey Fitz Péers or Fitz Peter depar|teth this life. Geffrey Fitz Peter earle of Essex and lord cheefe iustice of England de|parted this life, a man of great power and autoritie, in whose politike direction and gouernement, the or|der of things perteining to the common-wealth chéefelie consisted. He was of a noble mind, expert in knowledge of the lawes of the land, rich in possessi|ons, and ioined in blood or affinitie with the more part of all the Nobles of the realme, so that his death was no small losse to the commonwelth: for through him and the archbishop Hubert, the king was often|times reuoked from such wilfull purposes, as now and then he was determined to haue put in practise, in so much that the king, as was reported (but how trulie I cannot tell) séemed to reioise for his death, bicause he might now worke his will without anie to controll him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The same time, to wit, about the feast of saint Mi|chaell,A cardinall sent into En|gland. came Nicholas the cardinall of Tusculane in|to England, sent from the pope, to take awaie the in|terdiction, if the king would stand to that agreement which he had made and promised by his oth to per|forme. King Iohn receiued this cardinall in most ho|norable wise, and gladlie heard him in all things that he had to saie. This legat at his comming to Westminster, deposed the abbat of that place, na|med William from his roome, for that he was accu|sed both of wasting the reuenues of the house, and al|so of notable incontinencie. Moreouer the burgesses of the towne of Oxford came vnto him to obteine absolution of their offense,The burges|ses of Oxford require abso|lution. in that through their pre|sumption, the thrée schollers (of whom ye haue heard before) were hanged there, to the great terror of all the residue. To be short, they were absolued and pe|nance inioined them, that they should strip them out of their apparell at euerie church in the towne, and going barefooted with scourges in their hands, they should require the benefit of absolution of eue|rie parish preest within their towne, saieng the psalme of Miserere.