Compare 1577 edition: 1 Where the Londoners would not permit the kings iustices to sit within the citie of London, contrarie to their liberties, the king appointed them to sit in the tower; and when they would not make anie answer there, a great tumult was raised by the commons of the citie, so that the iustices being in some perill (as they thought) feigned themselues to sit there till to|wards Easter. Wherevpon, when the king could not get the names of them that raised the tumult, no o|therwise but that they were certeine light persons of the common people, he at length pardoned the of|fense. After this, those iustices neither sat in the tow|er, nor elsewhere, of all that yeare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the quindene of Easter,A parlement. the king held a par|lement at London, in the which, the prelats, earls, ba|rons, and commons, presented manie petitions; Adam Meri|muth. as to haue the great charter of liberties, and the charter of forrests dulie obserued, and that they which brake the same should be discharged of their offices, if they were the kings officers, and that the high officers of the king should be elected and chosen by their peeres in parlement. The king withstood these petitions a certeine time, yet at length he granted to some of them; but as concerning the election of his officers, he in no wise would consent, but yet he was conten|ted that they should receiue an oth in parlement, to doo iustice to all men in their offices, &c. Upon which article and others, a statute was made and confir|med with the kings seale.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane while, the French king had with bribes woone Lewes of Bauaria,The emperor woone frõ the king of Eng|lands fréend|ship. that named him|selfe emperour, from further fauouring the king of England; in so much that, vnder a colourable pre|tense of finding himselfe greeued, for that the king of England had without his knowledge taken truce with the French king, he reuoked the dignitie of be|ing vicar in the empire, from the king of England, but yet signified to him, that where the French king had at his request put the matter in controuersie be|twixt him and the king of England into his hands, to make an end thereof, if it so pleased the king of Eng|land,The emperor offereth to be a meane to cõ|clude a peace. that he should treat as an indifferent arbitrator betwixt them, he promised to doo his indeuour, so as he doubted not, but that by his means he should come to a good agréement in his cause, if he would f [...]llow his aduise. And to receiue answer hereof, he sent his letters by one Eberhard a chapleine of his, the reader of the [...]riers heremits to S. Augustins or|der, requesting the king of England to aduertise him by the same messenger, of his whole mind in that behalfe.