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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The archbishop of Canturburie lost all the goods that he had, for he would neither agree to giue any thing,The archbish. of Canturbu|rie his goods confiscate. nor to laie any thing downe in the church, that the king might receiue it. Wherevpon he was brought to such extreme miserie, that all his seruants went from him, & commandement was giuen foorth, that no man should receiue him, neither within mo|nasterie nor without, and so not hauing any one place of all his bishoprike where to laie his head, he remained in the house of a poore person, onelie with one priest and one clearke: yet he stiffelie stood in the matter, affirming certeinlie, that all those which granted any thing,The obstinate maner of the archbishop of Canturburie. either to the king, or to any other temporall person without the popes leaue, ran with|out doubt into the danger of the sentence pronoun|ced in the canon.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the feast of S. Matthew in Februarie, the king called a parlement of his nobles (not admitting thereto any of the cleargie) at Salisburie,A parlement at Salisburie and there required certeine of his Nobles to passe ouer into Gascoine, but euerie of them séemed to excuse him|selfe, whereat the king being mooued, threatened that they should either go, or he would giue their lands to other that would go, with which words manie of them were gréeuouslie offended, in so much that the earles of Hereford and Marshall, Humfrie Bohun, and Roger Bigod, declared that they would be rea|die to go with the king if he went himselfe, or else not. And when the earle Marshall was eftsoones re|quired to go, he answered, I will willinglie go with the king, and march before him in the fore ward, as by right of inheritance I am bound.

Yea (saith the king) and you shall go with other though I go not. I am not so bound (saith the earle) neither doo I pur|pose to take the iournie in hand with you.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king then in a great chafe burst out & sware, By God sir earle, either thou shalt go or hang. And I sweare (saith the earle) the same oth, that I will nei|ther go nor hang: and so he departed from the king without leaue taking.The [...] demeanor [...] the two [...]. Immediatlie herevpon those two earles assembled manie noble men, and o|ther of their fréends togither to the number of thirtie banerets and aboue, so that in all they were found to be fifteene hundred men of armes appointed and rea|die for battell, and herewith they withdrew into their countries, and kept such stir there, that they would not permit the kings officers to take neither wools, leather, nor any thing against the owners will, but forbad them on paine of loosing their heads to come within their roomes, and withall prepared themselues to resist if need were.

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