Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time, to wit, the 14 of Aprill, died Leolin prince of Wales,Leolin prince of Wales de|parteth this life. and then followed conten|tion betwixt his sons Griffin and Dauid for the prin|cipalitie, which at length Dauid obteined through king Henries support (though he were the yoonger brother) bicause he was begot in lawfull bed on the sister of king Henrie. The whole countrie of Wales was maruellouslie in trouble about their quarels. At length, a daie of méeting was appointed betwixt them, to grow by waie of talke vnto some quiet end; and Griffin meaning no deceit, came in peaceable wise with Richard bishop of Bangor and others to the place assigned, where they should haue met. But Dauid by a traine tooke Griffin, and committed him to prison, wherevpon afterwards, the yeare insuing, by continuall plaint and earnest sute of the bishop of Bangor, king Henrie entred Wales with an ar|mie, and constreined Dauid to submit himselfe, and to deliuer the said Griffin into his hands, and further also to put in suerties to appeare at London, there to receiue such order in the kings courts, as to him by law should be orderlie awarded. Griffin ap Mad|docke and diuerse other great lords of Wales ioined with the king in this iournie against Dauid,Griffin ap Maddocke [...] as in the next yeare ye shall further heare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time, there was great strife and contention still remaining betwixt the emperour Frederike and pope Innocent the fourth that succée|ded Celestine the fourth, in somuch that sore and mor|tall warre followed. But king Henrie by the pro|curement of the legat Otho,King Henrie aided the pope with monie a|gainst the [...]perour. aided the pope with mo|nie, though he was somewhat loth to doo it, bicause the said emperour had married his sister. Indéed, the emperour wrote to the king to staie his hand, but the diligence of that legat was such in furthering his masters businesse, that the monie was gone ouer yer the emperours letters came. At this time also, Ed|mund the archbishop of Canturburie greatlie dis|alowed the often exactions and subsidies which the le|gat caused dailie to be le [...]ied of the English clergie. Howbeit, in hope to haue his purpose the rather a|gainst the moonks of Canturburie, with whom he was at variance, he first granted to the legats re|quest made on the popes behalfe in a synod holden at Reading, for the hauing of the fift part of spirituall mens reuenues, and so by his example others were inforced to doo the like.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Furthermore he gaue eight hundred marks to the pope, but whether of his owne free will, or by con|streint, I cannot saie; but now vtterlie misliking all things doone by the legat contrarie to his mind, after he had doone and said what he could for redresse, and when he saw no hope at hand for anie reformati|on either in the king or legat, who estéemed not his words, as a man not longer able to see his countrie so spoiled, he went ouer into France, and got him vnto Pontney, there to remaine in voluntarie exile, after the example of his predecessour Thomas Bec|ket, whose dooings he did follow in verie manie things. Uerelie the collections of monie, which the pope in these daies by his legats gathered here in this realme, were great and sundrie, so that (as it ap|peareth by historiographers of this time) the cleargie and other found themselues sore grieued, and repined not a little against such couetous dealings and vn|measurable EEBO page image 225 exactions, in so much that they spake to the king of it,Complaint to the king of the collections made for the pope. and said;

Right famous prince, whie suffer you England to be made a prey and desolati|on to all the passers by, as a vineyard without an hedge, common to the waifaring man, and to be de|stroied of the bores of the field, sith you haue a suffici|ent priuilege that no such exactions should be made in this kingdome? And suerlie he is not worthie of a priuilege which abuseth the same being granted.