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Compare 1577 edition: 1 These and manie other opinions did these men hold and mainteine, and diuerse lords and great men EEBO page image 412 of the land fauoured their cause. But when these con|clusions were brought before the pope, he condem|ned the number of 23 of those articles as vaine and hereticall, directing his buls to the archbishop of Canturburie, and to the bishop of London, that they should cause the said Wiclife to be apprehended, and examined vpon the said conclusions, which they did in presence of the duke of Lancaster, and the lord Per|cie, and hearing his declaration, commanded him to silence, and in no wise to deale with those matters from thencefoorth,Wiclife & his felowes main|teined by cer|teine lords. so that for a time, both he and his fellowes kept silence: but after at the contemplati|on of diuerse of the temporall lords, they preached and set foorth their doctrine againe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The same day that Wiclife was conuented thus at London, before the bishops and other lords, tho|rough a word spoken in reproch by the duke of Lan|caster vnto the bishop of London, streightwaies the Londoners getting them to armour,The duke of Lancaster in danger by the Londoners. meant to haue slaine the duke, & if the bishop had not staid them, they had suerlie set fire on the dukes house at the Sauoie: and with much adoo might the bishop quiet them. A|mong other reprochfull parts which in despite of the duke they committed, they caused his armes in the publike stréet to be reuersed as if he had béene a trai|tor, or some notorious offendor. The duke and the lord Henrie Percie,The lord Percie. whom the citizens sought in his owne house to haue slaine him, if he had béen found, hearing of this riotous stur and rebellious commo|tion, forsooke their dinner and fled to Kenington, where the lord Richard, sonne to the prince, togither with his mother then remained, exhibiting before their presence, a grieuous complaint of the opprobri|ous iniuries doone vnto them, by the wilfull outrage of the Londoners. For this and other causes, the ci|tizens were sore hated of the duke, in so much that he caused the maior & aldermen that then ruled to be dis|charged of their roomes, and other put in their places.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king being more grieuouslie vexed with sick|nesse from daie to daie, either increasing by the course therof, or renewed by some new surfet, finallie this yeare departed out of this transitorie life at his manour of Shéene, Tho. Walsi. The deceasse of K. Edward the third. now called Richmond, the 21 daie of Iune, in the yeare of our Lord 1377, after he had liued 65 yeares, & reigned fiftie yeares, foure moneths, & 28 daies. His corpse was conueied from Sheene by his foure sonnes, Fabian, pag. 262, 263. namelie Lionell duke of Clarence, Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster, Ed|mund of Langlie duke of Yorke, and Thomas of Woodstoke earle of Cambridge, with other nobles of the realme, and solemnelie interred within West|minster church, with this epitaph in his memoriall:

Hîc decus Anglorum, flos regum praeteritorum,
Forma futurorum, rex clemens, pax populorum,
Tertius Edwardus, regni complens iubileum,
Inuictus pardus, pollens bellis Machabeum.
He had issue by his wife quéene Philip 7 sonnes, Ed|ward prince of Wales,His issue. William of Hatfield that di|ed yoong, Lionell duke of Clarence, Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster, Edmund of Langlie earle of Cambridge & after created duke of Yorke, Thomas of Woodstoke erle of Buckingham after made duke of Glocester, and an other William which died like|wise yoong. He had also thrée daughters, Marie that was maried to Iohn of Mountford duke of Bri|taine, Isabell wedded to the lord Coucie earle of Bedford, and Margaret coupled in mariage with the earle of Penbroke.

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