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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The archbishop of Canturburie held an other sy|nod at Lambeth,A synod at Lambeth. in the which he receiued and confir|med the orders and constitutions decréed and establi|shed by the legats Otho and Othobone, in councels by them kept here within this realme, adding diuerse other of his owne: & in the same councell he went a|bout to adnihilate certeine liberties belonging to the crowne, as the taking knowledge of the right of pa|tronages and the kings prohibitions In placitis de ca|tallis, and such like, which séemed méerlie to touch the spiritualtie. But the king by some in that councell withstood the archbishop openlie, and with menaces staied him from concluding any thing that might preiudice his roiall liberties and prerogatiues. King Edward held a parlement at London,A parlement. in the which he demanded a fifteenth of the cleargie, which latelie before he had got of the temporaltie. The archbishop of Yorke was content at the first to grant this fif|teenth to be paid of the cleargie within his diocesse in two yeares;The archbi|shop of Yorke. but the archbishop of Canturburie held off,The archbi|shop of Can|turburie. and required re [...]pit till the next parlement to be holden after Easter, and then he granted vnto the king the dismes of all his cleargie for thrée yeares, that in some point he might be different from the archbishop of Yorke.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the ninth yeare of king Edwards reigne, Anno Reg 9. 1281 the feast of the round table was kept at Warwike with great and sumptuous triumph.The feast of the round ta|ble holden as Warwike. Dauid the brother of Leolin re [...]|teth, and be|commeth a rebell. Whilest these things were in dooing, Dauid brother to Leolin prince of Wales, forgetting the great benefits which he had receiued at the hands of king Edward, became his aduersarie, and caused his said brother the prince of Wales with a great number of other noble men of that countrie to rebell: and to incourage them the sooner to attempt the warre, he began the first ex|ploit himselfe,The lord Clifford taken. taking the said lord Roger Clifford (a right worthie and famous knight) in his castell of Hawardine, vpon Palme sundaie, the said lord being in no doubt of any such matter. Diuerse knights and other that were in the same castell at that time, and made resistance, were slaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this the foresaid Dauid returned to his bro|ther the prince, and therewith assembling an armie,The castell of Rutland be|sieged. they went both togither and besieged the castell of EEBO page image 281 Rutland. King Edward at the same time being in the parts about Salisburie, where he kept his Easter at the Uies, sent out commissioners to leauie an ar|mie, and commanded such men of warre as he had then in a readinesse, to hast foorth to the rescue of the castell of Rutland.The castell of Lamperde|uaux taken. And in the meane time, the castell of Lamperdeuaux was taken by Rice ap Malgone and Griffith ap Meridoc. Also diuerse other castels were taken by other of the Welsh nobilitie. Moreo|uer, about this time by the labour and suit of Iohn the archbishop of Canturburie, Emericke de Mont|fort,Emericke de Montfort set at libertie. which had béene reteined in prison (sith that he was first taken togither with his sister at the Isle of Sillie by the Bristowmen) was now set at libertie and permitted to returne into France. The said archbishop of Canturburie was sent into Wales to persuade Leolin and his brother with the other re|bels vnto peace and quietnesse,Leolin and other the W [...]lsh rebels accurssed. Anno Reg. 10. but returning into England, without bringing anie thing to passe, he de|nounced them accurssed.

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