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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The co [...]cell doubting some seditious stir to arise hereof amongst the people, deliuered the charters (so sealed and [...] as they were) vnto the shiriffes of London, that the same might be read openlie before the people,The articles red in Paules churchyard. which was doone in Paules churchyard in presence of a great assemblie there, come togither and gathered for that purpose. The people (than whom the sea in ebbing and fl [...]wing is not more in|constant, nor in iudgment more rash, heddie, sudden, and vnaduised, as one saith verie well, & to purpose,

Iudicium [...]ulgi insulsum, imbecilláque mens est,
Quandoquidem inuisa est vulgo sapientia, &c.)
at the first before they heard the addition, gaue manie blessings to the king for those grants: but when they heard with what words he concluded, they cursed as fast as before they had blessed. Before this parlement was dissolued, the lords had warning to returne a|gaine shortlie after Easter, and then they had all things granted and performed as they could wish or desire.The per [...]|bulations of forrests. The perambulations of forrestes were ap|pointed vnto three bishops, three earles, and thrée barons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the latter end of Iune there came ouer a bishop sent from pope Boniface as his Nuncio,A bishop sen [...] from the pope and diuerse other with him, to declare the order which the pope as arbitrator indifferentlie chosen betwixt the kings of England and France, for the deciding of all controuersies depending betwixt them, had gi|uen foorth & decréed, which was in effect as followeth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 1 First that king Edward being then a wid|dower should marrie the French kings sister named Margaret,The popes decrée of peace betwixt the kings of England & France. notwithstanding the degrées of consan|guinitie, for the which the pope would dispense.

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