Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Upon the 27 day of Aprill those that had taken on them the crosse, assembled at Bermondsey besides London, to treat of their setting forward, determi|ning that the same should be at Midsummer next: but by the popes letters which the king procured, they were commanded to staie till the king himselfe went. Thus their iournie for that time was disap|pointed. There was of them and their retinues that meant thus to haue gone, fiue hundreth knights, be|sides yeomen or demilances and other common soul|diers in great numbers. Gaston de Bierne was so driuen to his shifts by the high prowesse of the earle of Leicester,Gaston de Bierne sub|miteth himself to the king. that in the end he was constreined to come ouer into England, and submit himselfe to the king, whom he found at Clarendon, where he gat such mercie at the kings hands, that he was pardo|ned and restored to his lands. But the earle of Lei|cester put the king in possession of the castels of Fronsacke,The earle of Leicester his service in Gascoigne. Egremount, and others, and banished Rustein, and William de Solares, with diuerse o|ther stubborne and disloiall rebels, depriuing them of their lands and inheritance in that countrie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The bishop of Lincolne did excommunicat a préest within his diocesse,The bishop of Lincolne. that was accused of incon|tinencie. And bicause the same preest continued for|tie daies without séeking to be reconciled, the bishop sent to the shiriffe of Rutland, within whose baili|wike the same préest dwelled, to apprehend him as a disobedient and rebellious person: but the shiriffe winked at the matter, and would not execute the bi|shops commandement, wherevpon the bishop did al|so excommunicat the shiriffe: whereof the king be|ing informed, tooke displeasure, and sending to the pope, procured an inhibition,An inhibition procured by the king of the pope. that no archbishop nor bishop should compell anie officer belonging to the king, to follow anie suit afore them, for those things that apperteined to the kings iurisdiction, or give sen|tence against them for the same.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The mondaie before the R [...]gation wéeke, Richard the kings brother earle of Cornewall,The earle of Cornwall r [...]turneth from the pope. returned from the court of Rome, where he had beene about certeine businesse vnknowne to most men: but whatsoeuer the same was, the pope gaue him most courteous and honorable interteinement for his welcome, and made him great cheare during his abode at Lions, where the popes court as then laie. ¶ About this season, the K. to rid himselfe out of debt, wherein he was indangered to certeine merchants, lessened the charges of his houshold, and kept but a meane port, diminishing euen the accustomed almesse of the poore,The king sp [...]reth to bring himselfe out of debt. and also the great number of tapers and lights in his chappell, so that he was noted with the blame of too much niggardlie sparing an [...] pinching: but in that he discharged his debt to the merchants, he was thought to doo wiselie and charitablie, for that he would not see them hindered to whom he was so in|debted; besides the opinion that he had concerning himselfe, namelie that

Profectum faciunt rarum quos debita stringunt.