Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane season,A shift to get monie of the bishops deui|sed by the bish. o [...] Hereford. the bishop of Hereford de|uised a shift to helpe the K. with monie, towards the paiments of his debts, by obteining certeine auten|tike seales of the prelats of this land, wherewith he signed certeine instruments and writings, wherein was expressed, that he had receiued diuerse summes of monie for dispatch of businesse perteining to them and to their churches, of this and that merchant of Florence or Siena, whereby they stood bound for re|paiment thereof by the same instruments and wri|tings so made by him their agent in their names. This shift was deuised by the said bishop of Here|ford, with licence obteined therevnto of the king, and also of the pope, vnto whome for the same intent the said bishop was sent, with sir Robert Walerane knight. The pope was the sooner persuaded to grant licence for the contriuing of such manner of shift, bi|cause the monie should go to the discharging of the kings debts, into the which he was run, by bearing the charges of the warres against the king of Si|cill.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the feast of saint Edward, the parlement began againe at London,A parlement. in which the states trea|ted of a subsidie to be granted to the king,Richard earle of Cornewall standeth a|gainst his brother for the grant of a subsidie. but they could not conclude thereof, neither would Richard earle of Cornewall disburse anie monie at that sea|son to his brother the king, bicause he allowed not the maner of laieng it out for the warres against Man|fred, being taken in hand without his consent. The same years, the king by the procurement of his bro|ther Richard earle of Cornewall,The liberties of London sei|zed into the kings hands. had seized the li|berties of the citie of London into his owne hands, vnder colour that the maior had not doone his dutie in the iust punishing of bakers for breaking of the assises of their bread. Herevpon, where the maior and communaltie of the citie had by the kings grant the citie to farme, with diuerse customes and offices, at a certeine rate and stinted summe of monie; now the king set officers therein at his pleasure, which were accomptable to him for all the reuenues and profits that grew within the citie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But whereas the malice which the earle of Corne|wall bare to the citie, was, for that they would not exchange with him c [...]rteine grounds that belonged to their communaltie, they were glad to agree with him, and paie vnto him six hundred marks. After which agréement concluded, about the nintéenth daie of Nouember, they were shortlie after restored to their liberties. This chanced before the kings com|ming ouer, who at his comming to London, lodged in the tower, and vpon new displeasure conceiued a|gainst the citie for the escape of a prisoner (being a clearke conuict) out of Newgate, which had killed a prior, that was of aliance to the king, as cousine to the queene, the king sent for the maior and the shirifs to come before him to answer the matter. The ma|ior laid the fault from him to the shiriffes, for so much as to them belonged the kéeping of all the prisoners within the citie: and so the maior returned home a|gaine,The shiriffes of London imprisoned. but the shiriffes remained there as prisoners by the space of a whole moneth or more, and yet they excused themselues, in that the fault cheefelie rested in the bishops officers: for whereas the prisoner was vnder his custodie, they at his request had granted him licence to imprison the offendor within their EEBO page image 252 ward of Newgate, but so as his officers were char|ged to see him safe kept. The king notwithstanding demanded of the citie thrée thousand marks for a fine.