Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, the Iewes in this yeare, for a murther which they had secretlie committed, were gréeuouslie punished,The Iewes punished by the pursse. namelie by the pursse to buy their peace, & they were glad to giue the king the third part of all their goods. The legat also assembled a synod of the clergie at London vpon the last of Iulie,A synod hol|den at Lon|don. in the which he demanded procuracies, but the bishops vpon deli|beration had in the matter, answered, that the im|portunatnes of the Romane church had so often con|sumed the goods of the English church, that they could no longer suffer it, and therefore said they;

Let them giue you procuracies which vnaduisedlie haue called you into the realme, if they will, for of vs you shall be sure to come by none at all, howbeit he got his de|mand of the abbats and other religious men.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the feast of the assumption of our ladie, Tho|mas earle of Flanders, vncle to the quéene, arriued at Douer, and was receiued of the king with great ioy and gladnesse, who rode thitherward to méet him, and so brought him to London, where the citizens came foorth also, and meeting him in the waie, brought him into the citie with all honour that might be deui|sed. He did homage to the king (as authors write) and at his departure had in reward fiue hundred marks, and a pension assured him of as much yearelie out of the escheker of the kings frée gift. This earle Tho|mas was sonne to the earle of Sauoy, and a little be|fore his comming into England, he had married Ione countesse of Flanders, which had first beene coupled in marriage with Ferdinando, as in the life of king Iohn may further appeare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the 24 yeare of his reigne, king Henrie held his Christmasse at Winchester, Anno Reg. 24. 1240 where he made Bald|wine de Riuers knight, and inuested him with the right of the earledome of the Ile of Wight, Matth. Paris. Matth. West. Baldwin de Riuers earle of the Ile of Wight. in the presence of the earle of Cornewall, who procured him this honour, bicause he had the wardship of him, and married him to his daughter in law the ladie Ami|cia, that was daughter to his wife the countesse of Glocester by hir former husband. The earle of Leice|ster also, meaning to go into the holie land, returned out of France, where he had remained a certeine time as an exile, but was now receiued honorablie of the king and other péeres of the realme, and after that he had séene the king and doone his dutie as ap|perteined, he went to his possessions to make monie for his furniture necessarie to be had in that iournie, for the which he sold at that time his woods about Lei|cester,The woods about Leice|ster féeld. vnto the knights of the Hospitall, and to the canons of Leicester, receiuing of them for the same about the summe of a thousand pounds.