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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 But now touching the foresaid earle of Lanca|ster, Auesburie. Nic. Triuer. great strife rose afterwards amongst the peo|ple, whether he ought to be reputed for a saint or no. Some held, that he ought to be no lesse esteemed, for that he did manie almesdéeds in his life time, hono|red men of religion, and mainteined a true quarell till his liues end. Also, his enimies continued not long after, but came to euill end. Others conceiued an other opinion of him, alledging, that he fauoured not his wife, but liued in spouse-breach, defiling a great number of damosels and gentlewomen. If anie offended him, he slue him shortlie after in his wrathfull mood. Apostataes and other euill dooers he mainteined, and would not suffer them to be puni|shed by due order of law. All his dooings he vsed to commit vnto one of his secretaries, and tooke no heed himselfe thereof: and as for the manner of his death, he fled shamefullie in the fight, and was taken and put to death against his will, bicause he could not auoid it: yet by reason of certeine miracles which were said to be doone néere the place both where he suffered, and where he was buried, caused manie to thinke he was a saint; howbeit, at length, by the kings cõmandement, the church doores of the priorie where he was buried, were shut and closed, so that no EEBO page image 332 man might be suffered to come to the toome to bring any offerings, or to doo any other kind of deuotion to the same. Caxton. Also, the hill where he suffered was kept by certeine Gascoines, appointed by the lord Hugh Spenser the sonne then lieng at Pomfret, to the end that no people should come and make their praiers there in worship of the said earle, whome they tooke verelie for a martyr.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 A parlement at Yorke.When the king had subdued the barons, shortlie after, about the feast of the Ascension of our lord, he held a parlement at Yorke, in which parlement, the record and whole processe of the decree or iudgement concerning the disheriting of the Spensers,The record touching the banishing of the Spensers reuersed. ordei|ned by the lords in parlement assembled at London the last summer, was now throughlie examined, and for their errours therein found, the same record and processe was cléerelie adnthilated and reuersed, and the said Spensers were restored to all their lands and offices,Creation of earls. as before. And in the same parlement the lord Hugh Spenser the father was made earle of Winchester, and the lord Andrew de Herklie earle of Carleill. Moreouer, in the same parlement, all such were disherited as had taken part with the earls of Lancaster & Hereford,The lord Audelie pardoned. except the lord Hugh Aude|lie the yoonger, and a few other, the which lord Hugh was pardoned, bicause he had married the kings néece, that was sister to Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester, which was slaine in Scotland, at the bat|tell of Bannockesborne, as before is mentioned.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Robert Bal|docke is made lord chancel|lour. Polydor. At this time also master Robert Baldocke, a man euill beloued in the realme, was made lord chancel|lour of England. This Robert Baldocke, and one Simon Reding were great fauourers of the Spen|sers, and so likewise was the earle of Arundell, wher|by it may be thought, that the Spensers did helpe to aduance them into the kings fauour, so that they bare no small rule in the realme, during the time that the same Spensers continued in prosperitie, which for the terme of fiue yeares after that the fore|said barons (as before is expressed) were brought to confusion, did woonderfullie increase, and the quéene for that she gaue good and faithfull counsell,The quéene giueth good counsell. was no|thing regarded, but by the Spensers meanes cléere|lie worne out of the kings fauour. Moreouer, we find,The kings eldest sonne created prince of Wales. that in this parlement holden at Yorke, the kings sonne Edward was made prince of Wales, and duke of Aquitaine.

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