Compare 1577 edition: 1 Beside these letters, were other written, and sent from the king, conteining in summe,Sir Iohn Shordich sent to the Pope. the tenor of the other aboue mentioned, and one sir Iohn Shordich, knight a graue personage and well seene in the law, was appointed to go with the same, who comming to Auignion, and there presenting his letters in the popes priuie chamber, where the pope sat, with all his cardinals about him, receiued no great courte|ous welcome, after his letters were once read. And whie? Euen bicause the cõtents of the same misliked his mind, tending to the impairing of his vsurped profits & cõmodities from time to time in this land,

Ambitiosus enim sibi totum vendicat orbem,

Se (scelus) Christo clamitat esse parem.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Now when the knight made answer to such words as he heard the pope vtter,The Popes words to sir Iohn Shor|dich. and charged him with gi|uing the deanrie of Yorke vnto one that was re|puted the kings enimie, the pope said;

Well, it is not vnknowne to vs who made and indited these let|ters, and we know that thou madest them not, but there is one that pincheth at vs, and we shall punish him well inough: we know all. Herevnto he added thus much more, that there was a knight that spake defamous words of him, and the church of Rome, wherewith he séemed highlie offended. To conclude, he said, that he would answer the letters of the king and commons, as touching the points conteined in the same.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Iusts in Smithfield.This yeare about Midsummer, there were solemne iusts proclaimed by the lord Robet Morley, which were holden in Smithféeld, where for challengers, came foorth one apparelled like to the pope, bringing with him twelue other in garments like to cardi|nals, which tooke vpon them to answer all commers, for thrée courses. On the defendants side, ran the prince of Wales, with manie earls, barons knights and esquires innumerable, so that those iusts conti|nued thrée daies togither, to the great pleasure of the beholders. ¶ This yeare, king Edward ordeined a certeine new coine of gold,1344 Anno Reg. 18. which he named the flo|ren, that is, the penie of six shillings eight pence, the halfe penie of the value of three shillings foure pence, and the farthing of the value of twentie pence. This coine was ordeined for his wars in France, the gold whereof was not so fine as the noble, which in the fourtéenth yeare of his reigne he had caused for to be coined. Th. Walsing. A chamber built within the castell of Windsore, called the round table. This yeare, the king caused a great number of artificers and labourers to be taken vp, whome he set in hand to build a chamber in the castell of Windsore, which was called the round table, the floore whereof, from the center or middle point, vnto the compasse throughout, the one halfe was (as Wal|singham writeth) an hundred foot, and so the diameter or compasse round about, was two hundred foot. The expenses of this worke amounted by the weeke, first vnto an hundred pounds, but afterward by reason of the wars that followed, the charges was diminished vnto two and twentie pounds the wéeke (as Thomas Walsingham writeth in his larger booke, intituled, the historie of England) or (as some copies haue) vn|to 9 pounds. I. Stow out of Henrie de Leicester. The Ile of Man. This yéere also, W. Montacute earle of Salisburie conquered the Ile of Man, out of the hands of the Scots, which Ile the king gaue vnto the said earle, and caused him to be intituled, and crow|ned king of Man. ¶ This Ile (as Robert Southwell noteth) was woone by the Scots, about the second yeare of Edward the second his reigne, who in the yeare before, to wit, anno Christi 1307, had giuen the same Ile vnto Péers de Gaueston, whom he had al|so made earle of Cornewall.