Compare 1577 edition: 1 And bicause this enterprise was taken in hand a|gainst the couenant of the truce, the earle of Nor|thumberland, before he attempted to recouer the ca|stell, sent to the earle of March in Scotland, to vn|derstand if he would anow that which his countri|men had doone, touching the winning of that castell, who sent him knowledge againe, that he neither vn|derstood of their enterprise, nor would be partaker with them therein: but if it so pleased the earle of Northumberland, he would come himselfe, and helpe to recouer it to the K. of Englands vse, out of those Scotishmens hands, which without publike authori|tie had made that exploit. This yeare, sir Robert Rous, capteine of Chierburg, was called home,Sir Robert Rous a valiãt capteine. after he had taken sir Oliuer de Clisson, and atchiued ma|nie other worthie aduentures against the kings eni|mies.137 [...] In his place was sent sir Iohn Herleston, to remaine vpon the gard of that castell. Also, sir Hugh Caluerlie, deputie of Calis, that had so valiantlie borne himselfe against the Frenchmen, was like|wise discharged; and comming home, was made ad|merall, being ioined in commission in that office with sir Thomas Percie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Sir William Montacute earle of Salisburie was sent ouer to Calis, to be the kings lieutenant there, who shortlie after his comming thither fetcht a great bootie of cattell out of the enimies countrie adioining, so that Calis was furnished with no small number of the same. ¶ Sir Hugh Caluerlie, and sir Thomas Percie, going to sea, tooke seauen ships la|den with merchandize, and one ship of warre. ¶The archbishop of Cassils in Ireland, returning from Rome, brought with him large authoritie of bind|ing and loosing, granted to him by pope Urbane, in fauour of whome at his comming to London, in a sermon which he preached, he declared to the people, how the French king, holding with the antipape Clement, was denounced accurssed; and therefore now was the time for Englishmen to make warre in France, hauing such occasion, as greater could not be offered; speciallie, sith it was like that the ex|communicated king should haue no courage to make resistance. This is I will not saie the diuini|tie (for what heauenlinesse can there be in such dam|nable doctrine, to set people together by the eares?) of the Romanists; so farre off are they from the stu|die of peace and concord betwixt man and man, that they set whole monarchies and empires vp to the mid leg in streams of bloud, imitating their great grand|father sashan, who hath béene a makebate and a mur|therer from the beginning: renouncing the footsteps of Christ with open mouth, and forswering to follow him either in demeanour or doctrine, and therefore;

Quis nisimentis inops, vt sanctum tale probabit?

Haeccine mens Christi? Talia nulla docet.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In a parlement holden at Westminster this yeare after Easter, it was ordeined,The sanctua|rie at West|minster con|firmed by parlement. that the priui|leges and immunities of the abbeie of Westminster should remaine whole and inuiolate; but yet there was a prouiso against those that tooke sanctuarie, with purpose to defraud their creditors, that their EEBO page image 422 lands & goods shuld be answerable to the discharging of their debts. In the same parlement was granted to the king a subsidie,A subsidie to be paid by the great men, & the commons go free. to be leuied of the great men of the land. To the end the commons might be spared, the dukes of Lancaster and Britaine paid twentie markes, euerie earle six marks, bishops and abbats with miters as much, and euerie moonke thrée shil|lings foure pence: also, euery iustice, shiriffe, knight, esquier, parson, vicar, and chapleine, were charged af|ter a certeine rate, but not any of the commons that were of the laitie.