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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In Lent this yeare, a parlement was holden at London,1 [...]24 in the which diuerse things were intreated, amongst other the cheefest was,A parlement. to determine for the sending of some honorable ambassage to the French king, to excuse the king for not comming to him to doo his homage, according to the pretended sum|mons.The bishop of Hereford ar|rested. ¶ In the same parlement, Adam bishop of Hereford was arrested, and examined vpon points of treason, for aiding, succouring, and mainteining the Mortimers, and other of the rebels. This bishop was reckoned to be wise, Thom. de la More. subtill, and learned, but o|therwise wilfull, presumptuous, and giuen to main|teine factions. At the first, he disdeined to make anie answer at all, and finallie, when he was in manner forced thereto, he flatlie told the king, that he might not make any answere to such matters as he was charged with, Thom. Wals. except by the licence and consent of his metropolitane the archbishop of Canturburie, and other his péeres. Héerevpon, the said archbishop and other bishops made such sute, that he was commit|ted to the kéeping of the said archbishop, with him to remaine, till the king had taken order for his further answer.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Within few daies after, when the king called him againe before his presence, to make answere to the matters laid against him, the archbishops of Can|turburie, Yorke, Dublin, and ten other bishops came with their crosses afore them,The presam|tuous [...]enica|nor of prelats. and vnder a colour of the priuilege and liberties of the church, tooke him a|waie, before he had made anie answere, forbidding all men on paine of excommunication, to laie anie hands vpon him. The king greatlie offended with this bold procéeding of the prelats, caused yet an in|quest to be impauelled, to inquire of the bishop of Herefords treasons, and vpon the finding of him giltie, he seized into his hands all the temporalties that belonged to his bishoprike, and spoiled his ma|nours and houses most violentlie, in reuenge of his disloiall dealings.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Re. Tu [...]  Lands belõg|ing to the templers.Moreouer, in this parlement, the lands and posses|sions that belonged sometime to the Templers, and had beene deliuered vnto the knights Hospitalers, otherwise called knights of the Rodes by the king in the seauenth yeare of his reigne (according to the de|crée of the councell of Uienna) were by authoritie of this parlement assured vnto the said knights, to en|ioy to them and their successors for euer. Also it was concluded, that the earle of Kent, and the archbishop of Dubline should go ouer as ambassadours into France, to excuse the king for his not comming in person to the French king, to doo his homage for the lands he held in France. Moreouer, in the same par|lement,Licence to [...] the bodies of the rebels. Reco [...]d. Tur. the king granted, that all the dead bodies of his enimies and rebels that had suffered and hanged still on the gallowes, should be taken downe, and buried in the churchyards next to the places where the same bodies were hanging, and not elsewhere, by such as would take paine to burie them, as by his writs directed vnto the shiriffes of London, and of the counties of Middlesex, Kent, Glocester, Yorke, and Buckingham it appeared. And not onelie this li|bertie was granted at that time for the taking down of those bodies, Polydor. but (as some write) it was decréed by authoritie in the same parlement, that the bodies of all those that from thenceforth should be hanged for felonies, should incontinentlie be buried, which ordi|nance hath béene euer since obserued.

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