Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the feast of saint Hilarie was come, the cleargie met againe at London, and fell to intreat of their former businesse, at what time one maister Leonard aliàs Reignold that was chosen prolocutor for all the prelats,The prolocu|tors answer to the popes legat. amongst other answers made to the legat Ruscand, when the same Ruscand alledged that all churches were the popes; Truth it is said Leonard, to defend, and not to vse and appropriate them to serue his owne turne; as we saie, that all is the princes, meaning that all is his to defend, and not to spoile: and such was the intent of the founders. Ruscand sore offended herewith, said, he would that euerie man should speake afterwards for himselfe, that as well the pope as the king might vnderstand what euerie man said in their businesse and matters. The prelats were striken in a dumpe herewith, for they perceiued how the matter went:The prelats appeale. they appealed yet against the demands that were made by Rus|cand, who would not change a word of that he had written, in which was conteined, that the prelats had acknowledged themselues to haue borrowed of the merchant strangers, no small summes of monie, and the same to be conuerted to the vse of their churches, which was most vntrue as all men well vnderstood: wherevpon the prelats affirmed, and not without rea|sonable cause,Marke the cause of mar|tyrdome. that there was a greater occasion in this cause of martyrdome, than in that of Thomas sometime archbishop of Canturburie.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Ruscand at length, perceiuing their manner, be|came somewhat more mild, and promised that he would talke with the pope of this matter.The deane of saint Paules sent to Rome on the behalfe of the prelats. But first there was sent to Rome the deane of Pauls in Lon|don, and certeine others, as attornies or agents for the whole cleargie of England. These sped so in their suit, that the pope tooke order that if the prelats paid the monie by force of the contriued writings, where|by they stood bound for them, their houses, and chur|ches; then, to ease their burthen, they might reteine in their hands such parcell of tenths as they ought to paie to the king, for furnishing of his wars against the Saracens, amounting to the summe which they should be constreined to paie for the bonds made to the merchants, by the bishop of Hereford (as before is recited.)
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this season the deuotion, which manie had con|ceiued of the pope and the church of Rome,Mens deuo|tion towards the pope wax|eth cold. began to wax cold, reputing the vertue which he shewed at his entring into the papasie, to be rather a colourable hy|pocrisie, than otherwise, sith his proceedings answe|red not to his good beginnings: for as it was mani|fest, where sutors brought their complaints into the court of Rome, such sped best as gaue most bribes, and the two priors of Winchester, the one expelled, and the other got in by intrusion, could well witnesse the same: and all the world knoweth that the vipe|rous generation of Romanists, reckoning from the ringleader to the simplest shaueling, haue made gaine the scope of their holinesse, and as it is true|lie said,
This yeare died William of Yorke bishop of Sa|lisburie, EEBO page image 254 which had beene brought vp in the court, e|uen from his youth.Suit of court when it was first receiued for a law. This bishop first caused that cu|stome to be receiued for a law, whereby the tenants of euerie lordship are bound to owe their suit to the lords court, of whom they hold their tenements.Quae libet arripiunt, lucri bonus est odo [...] ex reQualibet, imponunt, hos scelus omne iuuat:Antith. de pr [...]cl. Chris [...]i, &c.Accipiunt quoduis, si non sonat aere crumena,Siue siligo adsit, sordida siue pecus, The b. of Sa|lisburie depar|teth this life. &c.