Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Then was Iohn Warren earle of Surrey and Sussex made by king Edward warden of Scotland,Officers ap|pointed in Scotland by king Iohn. Hugh Cressingham treasurer, and William Or|mesbie high iustice, whome the king commanded, that he should call all those before him which held any lands of the crowne, and to receiue of them in his name their homages and fealties.Iohn Balioll sent to Lon|don. Iohn Balioll the late king of Scotland was sent to London, and had a conuenient companie of seruants appointed to attend him, hauing licence to go any whither abroad, so that he kept himselfe within the circuit of twentie miles néere to London. Iohn Comin of Badenaw, and Iohn Comin of Lowan, and diuerse nobles of Scotland were brought into England on the south side of Trent, being warned vpon paine of death not to returne into Scotland, till the king had made an end of his wars with France. After this,A parlement at saint Ed|mundsburie. at his re|turne into England, king Edward held a parlement at saint Edmundsburie, which began the morrow af|ter the feast of All saints, in which the citizens & bur|gesses of good townes granted vnto him an eighth part of their goods,A subsidie granted. and of the residue of the people a twelfth part.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The cleargie by reason of a constitution ordeined and constituted the same yeare by pope Boniface, prohibiting vpon paine of excommunication,The preten|ded excuse of the cleargie. that no talages nor other exactions should be leuied or ex|acted of the cleargie in any manner of wise by secu|lar princes, or to be paid to them of things that per|teined to the church, vtterlie refused to grant any manner of aid to the king, towards the maintenance of his wars. Wherevpon the king, to the intent they should haue time to studie for a better answer, de|ferred the matter to an other parlement to be holden on the morrow after the feast of saint Hilarie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare after the feast of the Epiphanie, Anno Reg. 25. 1297 Eli|zabeth the kings daughter was married vnto king Iohn earle of Holland.The earle of Holland mar|rieth Eliza|beth the kings daughter. N. Triuet. Humfrey de Bohun earle of Hereford and Essex was sent to conueie them into Holland, there to take possession of the earledome, as then descended vnto the said Iohn, by the death of his father latelie before slaine by his owne subiects, bi|cause he would haue disherited this Iohn, and made a bastard sonne which he had to be his heire. ¶ The day appointed for the parlement to be holden at Lon|don being come, and the cleargie continuing in their deniall to grant any subsidie, the king excluded them out of his protection, for the redeeming whereof, ma|nie by themselues, and manie by mediators, did af|terwards giue vnto the king a fift part of all their goods. The archbishop of Canturburie being found stiffe in the matter, the king seized all his lands, and commanded all such debts as were found of his in the rolles of the excheker, to be leuied with all spéed of his goods and cattell. Some write, that when the archbishop of Canturburie in name of all the resi|due, Abington. The archbi|shop his words. had declared to them whom the king had appoin|ted commissioners to receiue the answer, that where|as they of the cleargie had two souereigne lords and gouernours, the one in spirituall matters and the o|ther in temporall, yet they ought rather to obeie their spirituall gouernour than their temporall. Neuer|thelesse, to satisfie the kings pleasure, they would EEBO page image 302 of their owne charges send to the pope, that by his li|cence and permission, they might grant the king some aid, or else receiue some answer from him, what to doo therein:

for (saith the archbishop) we beléeue that the king feareth the sentence of excommunication, and would be as glad to auoid it as we.