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Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time, by reason of an accusation made by a prisoner against Ranulfe Briton (some|time the kings chancellour, but now leading a priuat life, Matth. Paris. being a canon of the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London) the same Ranulfe (by commande|ment from the king sent to the maior of the citie William Ioiner) was taken out of his house,Ranulfe Bri|ton taken out of his house, and led to the tower. had to the tower, and there imprisoned, whervpon the deane of Paules, maister G. Lucie, in absence of the bishop accurssed all those that had presumptuouslie attemp|ted to laie hands on the said Ranulfe, and further, he put his owne church of saint Paule vnder in|terdiction.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 To conclude, through threatning of excommuni|cation to be pronounced against the king, and other for this fact by the legat and the bishops of the realme as namelie, Canturburie and London, the king was compelled to release and set at libertie the fore|said Ranulfe. Finallie, the prisoner that had accused the said Ranulfe and other, being one of the kings purseuants, when for his wicked dooings he came to suffer death, openlie confessed, how he had accused those persons, onelie in hope to deferre his owne exe|cution, EEBO page image 224 being conuicted as accessarie to the treason of the clearke that suffered at Couentrie the last yeare. He had accused not onelie the said Briton, but diuers of the nobilitie also to be priuie and giltie of the same conspiracie. ¶ This yeare for the space of foure mo|neths togither,Great raine. fell excéeding great raine, yet at length it began to hold vp about Easter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this while, the lords of the realme practised sun|drie drifts likewise, as men that would faine haue béene rid of the legats companie: but the king did what he could on the otherside (by sending to the pope for licence) to haue him remaine still here, who be|gan now indeed to looke to his owne profit,The legat beginneth to looke to his owne cõmo|ditie. as by way of procuracies and other meanes, so that he got togi|ther great summes of monie, although in the begin|ning he séemed to forbeare, and not to séeke for anie such gaine. Also, he tooke vpon him to bestow bene|fices without consent of the patrones that were tem|porall men, wherevpon complaint was made to the pope,Sir Robert de Twing. namelie, by one sir Robert de Twing, who clai|med as patrone the presentation of the rectorie of Luthun in Yorkeshire, and could not be permitted to inioy it, by reason of the popes prohibition, but vpon the hearing of his title in the popes consistorie, he ob|teined letters [...]om the pope to be restored, and also an inhibition, that from thence foorth no person should be promoted to anie spirituall benefice or church, with|out consent of the patrone. The king and the péeres of the realme vnderstanding themselues to be touched in this wrong offered to this knight, had written in his fauour to the pope, so that his suit had the better successe.

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