Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Englishmen according to the order appointed, feigned as though they had fled, and so retired still backer and backer, till they had trained the Irish within danger of their other two battels, which comming foorth vpon them, did set on them egerlie, whilest the other which seemed before to flee returned backe againe, and set vpon them in like maner, by meanes whereof the Irishmen being in the midst, were EEBO page image 213 were beaten downe on all parts, and vtterlie van|quished, with losse of 20 thousand men (as it was cre|diblie reported.) The king of Connagh was also ta|ken and committed to prison.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time king Henrie hauing spent a great deale of treasure in his iournie made into France, there was granted vnto him a fiftéenth of the temporaltie,

A fifteénth and tenth granted to the king. Polydor.

Englishmen sent to Spain against the Saracens.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Moreouer, the archbishop of Canturburie (as they say) stood against the king in this demand,The archb. of Canturburie standeth a|gainst the K. in defense of his cleargie. main|teining that the cleargie ought not to be subiect vnto the iudgement of laie men, sith this escuage was granted in the parts beyond the seas without their consent. Wherevpon the matter as touching the bi|shops was deferred till the quindene of Easter, albe|it that all the laitie, and other of the spiritualtie con|sented to the kings will. ¶ About this time also there chanced to rise a great strife and contention betwixt Richard the archbishop of Canturburie, and Hubert the earle of Kent, who as gardian to the yoong erle of Glocester had got into his hands the castell of Tun|bridge,Contention betwixt the archb. and the earle of Kent. with the towne, and certeine other possessions which belonged to the archbishops sée, and therefore did the archbishop complaine to the king of the iniu|rie which he susteined.