Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this, the said cardinall called a councell or conuocation of the cleargie,A cõuocation called by the cardinall. to reforme such things touching the state of the church as should be thought requisite. And though he handled not this matter with such fauour and vprightnesse as the bishops wi|shed on their behalfes, yet he caused king Iohn to re|store the most part of all those goods that remained vnspent, and also the value of halfe of those that were consumed and made awaie, vnto those persons as well spirituall as temporall, from whom they had béene taken in time of the discord betwixt him and the pope. But before all things could be thus quie|ted and set in order betwixt the king and the bishops, manie méetings were had, as at London, Reading, Wallingford, and in other places.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now the archbishop and prelates for their parts thought this recompense to be but small, in respect of the great losses and hinderances which they had su|steined: and to haue the whole restitution delaied, they tooke it not well. Howbeit the cardinall leaned so to the kings side (hauing receiued of him to the popes vse the charter of subiection of the realmes of England and Ireland, now bulled with gold, where at the first it was deliuered to Pandulph sealed one|lie with wax. But their suit came to little effect, and in the end it fell out in such wise, that their com|plaint was lesse regarded. Moreouer, the rating of the value which the king should restore vnto the arch|bishop, and the other bishops, was by agréement of the king and them togither, appointed vnto foure ba|rons indifferentlie chosen betwixt them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 182At length notwithstanding that deuise tooke no place: for it was otherwise decréed by the pope, that the king should restore to them the summe of fortie thousand marks, [...] of the which he had paid alreadie twelue thousand, before the returne of the said arch|bishop and bishops into the realme, and fifteene thou|sand more at the late meeting had betwixt them at Reading, so that there remained onelie 13000 be|hind: for not onelie the king, but also the cardinall had sent to the pope, requiring him to take direction in the matter, and to aduertise him, that there was a great fault in the archbishop and his fellowes. In so much that Pandulph which was sent to him from the legat,King Iohn commended to the pope for an hum|ble prince. declared in fauour of the king, that there was not a more humble and modest prince to be found than king Iohn, and that the archbishop and his fel|lowes were too hard, and shewed themselues too co|uetous in requiring the restitution that should be made to them for losses susteined in time of the in|terdiction.