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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About the same time also,The Iewes constreined to helpe the king with monie. he caused the Iewes to giue vnto him a great portion of their goods, so that they were greatlie impouerished. There was one of them named Aaron borne in Yorke, the which since the kings last returne out of Gascoigne, had paied to the king the summe of thirtie thousand markes, Matth. Paris. ouer and besides two hundred marks which he had giuen to the quéene, as the same Aaron protested to Matthew Paris vpon his faith and truth which he bare to his law. In the Whitsunwéeke was a generall chapter holden of the friers preachers at London in Holborne,A generall chapter of ye friers prea|chers. where out of sundrie parts of the world were assembled aboue foure hundred of them, and they had meat and drinke found them of almesse, bi|cause they possessed nothing of their owne. On the first daie the king came into their chapter, that he might be partaker of their praiers, and found them meat and drinke that day, and dined there with them, to doo them the more honour. Another day the quéene likewise fed them, and afterwards the bishop of Lon|don, the abbats of Westminster, S. Albon, and Wal|tham, with others.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 About the same season the citizens of London found themselues greeued verie sore, Matth. Paris. Strife be|twixt the Lõ|doners and the abbat of Westminster for such liber|ties as the king granted to the abbat of Westmin|ster, to the great hinderance and decaie of the fran|chises of their citie. The maior and communaltie re|sisted all that they might against those liberties, and finallie by the good helpe and fauour of the lords, as the earles of Cornewall and Leicester, they obteined their purpose.William de Kilkennie keéper of the great seale. This yeare maister William de Kil|kennie, a sober, faithfull and learned man, was made keeper of the great seale. ¶ The same yeare vpon in|quisition made by Geffrey de Langley, one of the kings councell of transgressors in forrests and cha|ses, manie that had offended were presented, and most gréeuouslie punished by imprisonment, fines, and exceeding great amercements, and namelie in the north countrie.