Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 On S. Ualentines euen, a great earthquake hap|pened here in England, and namelie about London,An earth|quake. on the Thames side, with the which manie buildings were ouerthrowen. These earthquakes, the seldo|mer they chance in England, the more dreadfull the same are, and thought to signifie some great altera|tion. A litle before this earthquake, the sea had ceassed from ebbing and flowing for the space of three mo|neths togither,A strange woonder. by a long tract neere to the English shore, to the great maruell of many, for either it flow|ed not at all, or else so little that it might not be per|ceiued. And after the earthquake,Continuall raine. there followed such a season of foule weather, that the spring séemed to be changed into winter, for scarse was there anie daie without raine, till the feast of the translation of S. Benet.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There were at this time diuerse ordinances de|créed and enacted by waie of prohibition,Acts made to restraine pre|sumptuous authoritie of the spiritual|tie. to restreine the authoritie of spirituall persons, as that no eccle|siasticall judge should determine in causes of anie temporall man, except touching causes of matrimo|nie and testaments. They were also prohibited to sue anie actions touching tithes, before anie spiritu|all iudge, and the writ whereby they were prohibited, was called an Indicauit. Sundrie other such ordinan|ces were deuised, which for breefenesse we omit. What speed or answer so euer the messengers had that were sent to Rome with the letters deuised in the late par|lement, truth it is,The popes collectors. that the pope sent ouer into Eng|land such of his agents as gathered no small sums of monie amongst the cleargie, as one Marinus, and an other named Iohannes Anglicus a frier minor, the which were not intituled by the name of legats,A shift by for|bearing the name of legat. to saue the priuileges which the king had, that no le|gat might come into the realme without his licence. The comming ouer of these men, bicause it was to gather monie, contented not manie mens minds, as well appeared in a parlement called at Oxford a|bout reformation thereof, but yet notwithstanding it was there agreed, that the pope should haue eleuen thousand marks to be leuied amongst them of the spiritualtie, exempt persons and places reserued.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 About the same time, Baldwine naming himselfe emperour of Constantinople,The emperor of Constanti|nople com|meth into England. came againe into England, to procure some new aid of the king, to|wards the recouerie of his empire, out of the which he was was expelled by the Greekes. ¶ Also, there arriued in England a cardinall that was bishop of Sabine, hauing first receiued an oth,A cardinall cõmeth into England, re|ceiuing an oth not to preiu|dice y^e realme. that he came not for anie hurt to the king or his realme, for other|wise being a legat he might not be suffered to enter the land: he came this waie to passe ouer into Nor|waie, whither he went to crowne and annoint Ha|con king of that realme.The kings halfe brethren came to sée the king. There arriued here with him the thrée halfe brethren to the king, Guy de Lu|cignan, William de Valence, & Athelmare a préest, with their sister Alice. All these were begotten by EEBO page image 240 Hugh [...] earle of March, of quéene Isabell the kings mother, and were therefore ioifullie receiued of the king, with faithfull promise, that he would be to them a beneficiall good brother, which his saiengs with effectuall déeds he [...] fullie performed. The cardinall hauing saluted the king, tooke leaue of him and came to Lin, where he staied at the point of thrée moneths, making such purchase amongst religious men,The cardinall maketh shift for [...]. that what by procuraries and other shifts, he got as was thought, a foure thousand marks towards his charges, and so departed. Edmund Lacie earle of Lincolne, and Richard de Burgh, as then wards to the king, were married vnto two of those yoong la|dies of Prouance, which Peter de Sauoy earle of Richmond brought ouer with him, whereat manie of the English nobilitie grudged.