Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At the same time Hugh Spenser the sonne, being latelie come from the sea,The lord chã|berleine yeel|deth himselfe to the law. yéelded himselfe prisoner to the kings ward, beséeching the king that he might haue right ministred to him, concerning the wrongs and iniuries to him doone by the barons in maner as before ye haue heard, speciallie for the award which in parlement they had procured to be enacted against him, the errours committed in the processe, whereof he besought the king that he might be ad|mitted to shew: as first, in that they made them|selues iudges: secondlie, in that he was not called to answer: thirdlie, for that the same award was made without the assent of the prelats, who are péeres of the parlement as well as the temporall lords: fourth|lie, in that the said barons had no record in their pur|suit vpon the causes conteined in that award: fiftlie, in that the award was made against the forme of the great charter of franchises, wherein is conteined that none shall be foreiudged nor destroied but by lawfull iudgement of his péers, according to the law of the land. Further, he alledged that it was to be considered, how the said barons and great men being summoned to come in due maner vnto that parlement, they came in forceable wise with all their powers. A like petition was also exhibited on the be|halfe of Hugh Spenser the father, for redresse to be had of the wrongs and losses, which in like case he had susteined.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Anno Reg. 15.The king fauouring inough the causes and petiti|ons of the Spensers, granted their requests, and de|liuered the petitions vnto the archbishop of Cantur|burie and his suffragans,The king as|keth the opi|nions of the prelats. the which at the same time were there assembled in their prouinciall councell a|foresaid, requiring to haue their aduise and opinion therein. He likewise requested of the earles and ba|rons that were then with him, and of the counsellers in law, what they thought of this matter. The prelats vpon deliberation had, declared that in their opini|on, the said award as touching the disheriting and banishing of the Spensers, the father and sonne was erronious,The declara|tion of the prelats. and not rightlie decréed, and for them|selues they denied that they either did or could thinke it reason to consent therevnto, and therefore they re|quired that it might be repealed, and the kings bro|ther Edmund earle of Kent, Iohn de Britaine earle of Richmond,The declara|tion of the earles. Aimer de Ualence earle of Penbroke, and Edmund earle of Arundell, then being in pre|sence of the king, and likewise of the foresaid prelats, affirmed that the said award pronounced against the Spensers was made contrarie to law and right, and therefore as the prelats requested, that the same might be repealed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Further, the said earles alledged, that the assent which they gaue in the said award, was for doubt of the vnlawfull force which the barons brought vnto the said parlement, when they made that award, and for that the said earles that now were with the king, had counselled him to suffer the said award to passe, for feare of the said force, and confessed they had doone euill, and besought him of pardon for their of|fenses in so dooing. The king thus hauing caused the prelats, earles, barons, and lawiers there present to vtter their iudgements in maner aforesaid, he iudi|ciallie reuoked and quite disanulled the processe of the said award, made as well touching the banishment, as the disheriting of the Spensers, and restored them to his peace and allegiance, and to their former estates, in all conditions as they inioied the same be|fore the making of the said award, notwithstanding certeine letters to the contrarie of the earle of Lan|caster, and other lords of his faction, which for the ap|prouing and ratifieng of the said processe they direc|ted vnder their seales to the king as yet remaining at London.