Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare after Easter a parlement was hol|den at London,A parlement. Matth. Paris. in the which manie weightie mat|ters were intreated of touching the kings causes, namelie, about the conquest of the realme of Na|ples,Hurtred, a messenger frõ the pope. the pope hauing sent a messenger named Hur|tred for the discharge of monie, which the pope had re|ceiued of merchants, as it were to the kings vse, and entred bonds for the paiment thereof. Also, whereas the king was sore disquieted for the warre which the Welshmen made against him, he asked aduise of the states, how he might procéed to seeke his iust re|uenge of them, who by reason of their good hap were become verie stout and loftie, and had of late by the expiring of a truce which had beene accorded betwixt them,The Welsh|men spoile Penbroke|shire. spoiled and wasted the most part of Penbroke|shire, of which iniurie the earle of Penbroke, name|lie William de Ualence, sore complained.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But whereas the king knowing him to be rich, willed him to lay out some great portion of monie, towards the maintenance of his wars, the erle tooke great displeasure therewith, as though the king had made that request by the suggestion and setting on of some of the English lords,Uariance be|twixt the earle of Penbroke and others. in somuch that words passed in displeasant sort betwixt him and the earles of Glocester and Leicester, so far foorth, that the earle of Penbroke called the earle of Leicester traitor, who therewith made towards him, to haue reuenged the iniurie, and so would haue doone indéed, if the king had not beene moderator betwixt them. Fi|nallie at this parlement the lords told the king that they might not aid him with any great summes of monie, except it should redound to their great impo|uerishment: they told him also, that he had not doone wiselie to enter into couenants, for the purchase of the kingdome of Naples for his sonne, without their consents.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 They also declared to him, what articles it should be good for him to propone vnto the pope, if he would haue him to continue in bearing the charges of the wars against Manfred. But when those articles were afterwards presented to the pope, he allowed them not, & so the matter remained without any certeine assurance of the promises, which had béene and still were from time to time made to set the king on do|tage. The archbishop of Yorke had his crosse taken from him by the popes commandement,The archbi|shop of Yorke depriued of his crosse. but the arch|bishop would not yet bow his knée vnto Baall, to be|stow the benefices of his church vpon aliens, and such as were vnworthie persons, as it had beene to cast pearles vnto swine. ¶ There came from the pope as his Nuncio,Mansuetus the popes Nuncio. vnto king Henrie, a frier minor named Mansuetus, furnished with great power and authoritie, in somuch that he tooke vpon him to ab|solue men for changing their vowes, and to iustifie those that were excõmunicated persons, false periu|red, and such like. Wherevpon, manie of euill disposi|tion presumed to offend: for easinesse to purchase par|don bred boldnesse in manie, howbeit the wise sée|med to laugh at such dooings.