Compare 1577 edition: 1 But the king and lords of the land thought it a|gainst reason, that the pope should take and receiue the profits of those abbeies and monasteries, which had beene founded by their predecessors for the ser|uice of God, and the maintenance of almesdeeds, and good hospitalitie to be kept: and so the pope chan|ged his purpose, touching abbeies, but granting to the K. the tenth of the English churches for two yéers, he obteined the first fruits of the same churches for himselfe, as before he required.

A statute a|gainst the re|ligious per|sons.

N. Triuet.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 There came also at the same time,Petrus His|panus a car|dinall sent frõ the pope. a cardinall from the pope, named Petrus Hispanus, to procure the consummation of the mariage, betwixt the prince of Wales, and the French kings daughter; for the same was delaied, by reason that all couenants were not kept on the French kings behalfe, touching the deliuerie of the townes in Gascoine. For whereas in times past,The cause of his comming. the French king had giuen one of those townes that were taken from the English|men, named Mauleon, vnto a French knight; he kept the same still, and would not deliuer it now at the French kings commandement, where-through (as was said) the marriage had béene hitherto defer|red. The same cardinall by vertue of his bull, Matth. West. His demand of monie of religious houses. would haue had of euerie cathedrall church, colledge, abbeie, and priorie, twelue marks of sterling monie; and of euerie person of parish churches eight pence of eue|rie EEBO page image 316 marke of his reuenues. But the English clear|gie appealed from this exaction, so that by the king and his councell it was ordeined, that he should haue no more than in times past cardinall Othobon did receiue, that is to saie, the halfe of his demand. More|ouer, this cardinall being at Carleill, and hauing made a sermon in praise of peace, vpon the conclu|sion of marriage betwixt the prince of Wales and the French kings daughter,The cardinall preacheth. in the end he reuested himselfe and the other bishops which were present, and then with candels light, and causing the bels to be roong,He accurseth Rob. Bruce. Nic. Triuet. they accursed in terrible wise Robert Bruce the vsurper of the crowne of Scotland, with all his partakers, aiders and mainteiners.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Neuerthelesse, Robert Bruce in this meane while slept not his businesse, but ranging abroad in the countrie, flue manie that would not obeie him, and sent foorth his two brethren, Thomas that was a knight, and Alexander that was a préest, with part of his armie into an other quarter of the countrie, to al|lure the people vnto his obedience, partlie with gen|tlenesse,Thomas Bruce and Alexander Bruce taken. and partlie with menaces. But the English|men came vpon them in the night and tooke them both, so that being brought before the iustices they were condemned, and therevpon hanged, drawen and quartered. Matth. West. ¶ Some write, that Duncan Mag|doili, a man of great power in Galloway, tooke these two brethren prisoners, togither with Reginald Crawford (being the principlas) on the ninth daie of Februarie, as they with certeine other capteins and men of war came by sea, and landed in his coun|trie, vpon whome being seuen hundred men, he with three hundred or few aboue that number boldlie gaue the onset, and not onelie tooke the said thrée persons prisoners, sore wounded as they were, with diuerse other, but also slue Malcolme Makaile a lord of Ken|tice, and two Irish lords, whose heads, and the fore|said prisoners, he presented vnto king Edward, who caused Thomas Bruce to be hanged,Tho. Bruce executed. Alexander Bruce & Re|ginald Craw|ford executed. drawen and quartered, but the other two were onelie hanged and quartered at Carleill, where their heads were set vp aloft on the castell and gates of the citie.