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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Matth. Paris. Magnus king of Man.In the feast of Easter this yeare, the king ador|ned Magnus king of Man, with the order of knight|hood, and bestowed vpon him great gifts and honors. ¶ The countesse of Warren Auesia or Atesia (as some bookes haue) sister to the king by his mother, departed this life in hir flourishing youth, vnto the great griefe of hir brother, but speciallie of hir hus|band Iohn earle of Waren that loued hir intierlie. ¶ About the midst of Maie, the Iewes that were in the towre, and in other prisons for the murther of the child at Lincolne, and had béene indited by an in|quest vpon the [...] of him that had suffered at Lincolne, were [...] and set at libertie, to the number of [...] of them. ¶ In Whit|suntide was holden a [...] at Blie, where the lord Edward the [...] sonne first began to shew proofe of his chiual [...] There were diuerse o|uerthrowen and hurt, and a [...]gst other William de Longspee was so brused, [...] neuer after recouer his former strength.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 A proclama|tion for knighthood.The king caused a proclamation is be set foorth, that all such as might dispend [...]eene pounds in lands, should receiue the [...] of knighthood; and those that would not or could not, should paie their fines.A sore tem|pest of wind and raine. This yeare, thrée daies after the feast of S. Ciricus, a maruellous sore tempest of wind, raine, haile, and thunder chanced, that did excéeding much hurt. Mill-whéeles by the viole [...]e of waters were carried away, and the wind-milles were no lesse tor|mented with the rage of wind. Arches of bridges, stackes of haie, houses that stood by water sides, and children in cradels were borne awaie, that both woon|derfull and no lesse pitifull it was to see. At Bedford the riuer of Duse bare downe six houses togither, and did vnspeakeable hurt thereabouts.