Compare 1577 edition: 1 Polydor. The lords all this while lay at London, and began to doubt the matter, bicause they could heare no cer|teine newes where the king was become: for doub|ting (as I said) the suertie of his person, he conueied himselfe secretlie from one place to another, lodging and taking his diet oftentimes more meanlie than was decent for his estate: and still he longed to heare how his ambassadours sped with the pope, who in the meane time comming vnto Rome,The ambassa|dours cõming to the popes presence de|clare their message. and declaring their message at full, tooke it vpon their solemne oth, that the right was on the kings side, and that the fault rested onelie on the lords, touching the whole controuersie betweene them and him, who sought with great rigour and against reason to bridle him at their pleasures.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 They shewed also a note of certeine articles con|teined in the charter, Matth. Paris. which seemed to make most for the kings purpose, and withall declared that the king in open assemblie, where he and the barons met to talke of such matters, had protested that the king|dome of England speciallie apperteined (as touching the souereingtie) vnto the church of Rome, whervpon he neither could nor ought without knowledge of the pope to ordeine anie thing anew, or change ought within that kingdome in preiudice thereof. Where|fore whereas he put himselfe and all the rights of his kingdome by way of appealing vnder the protection of the apostolike sée: the barons yet without regard had to the same appeale, did seize into their possessi|on the citie of London, and getting them to armour, inforced the king to confirme such vnreasonable ar|ticles, as there appeared for him to consider.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The popes answer vnto the kings am|bassadours.The pope hauing heard their tale, and considered of the articles, with bending browes (in witnesse of his indignation) made foorthwith this short answer:

And is it so, that the barons of England doo go about to expell their king, which hath taken vpon him the crosse, and is remaining vnder the protection of the apostolike sée And doo they meane indéed to tran|slate the dominion that belongeth to the church of Rome vnto another? By S. Peter we cannot suffer this iniurie to passe vnpunished. Herevpon (credi|ting the ambassadours words) by the aduice of his cardinals, he decréed that all those priuiledges, which the king had granted vnto the lords and barons of this realme, as inforced thereto by their rebellious attempt, should be accounted void and of none ef|fect.