Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the feast of S. Martine, was a parlement holden at Northampton to the more trouble of them that came to it,A parlement at Northamp|ton. bicause in that season of the yeare they were constreined to come where there was no store of fewell to make them fiers: and beside that, lodgings were verie streict for so great a multitude. But the cause that mooued the councell to appoint this parlement there, was to the end that they might the more fréelie procéed to the triall of Iohn Kirkbie a citizen of London,Iohn Kirkbie executed for murthering a merchant stranger. that had murthered the Geno|w [...]is (as before ye haue hard) which Kirkbie was con|demned at this parlement, and drawne and hanged in the sight of the Londoners that were come thi|ther, which execution if it should haue beene doone at London, the lords doubted least some tumult might haue béene raised by the citizens, who were reckoned in those daies verie rash and presumptuous in their dooings.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now to the effect of this parlement. There was a new and strange subsidie or taske granted to be le|uied for the kings vse,A gréeuous subsidie. and towards the charges of this armie that went ouer into France with the earle of Buckingham; to wit, of euerie préest secular or regular six shillings eight pence, and as much of euerie nunne, and of euerie man & woman married or not married being 16 yeares of age (beggers cer|tenlie knowne onlie excepted) foure pence for euerie one.Twelue [...] as some [...] Great grudging & manie a bitter cursse follow|ed about the leuieng of this monie, & much mischéefe rose thereof, as after it appeared. ¶ In this fourth yeare of king Richards reigne, immediatlie after Christmasse, Thom. Wal [...] Thomas Brantingham bishop of Exe|ter and lord treasuror, was discharged of his office of treasurorship, and sir Robert Hales lord of S. Iohns was aduanced in his place, a right noble and manlie knight, but not beloued of the commons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 About this time did Iohn Wicliffe chieflie set foorth his opinion touching the sacrament of the al|tar, denieng the doctrine of transubstantiation,Wicliffes opi|nion. and that it ought not in any wise to be worshipped in such sort as the church of Rome then did teach. ¶ There were ambassadors sent into Germanie, to treat with the emperour for a marriage to be had, betwixt the king of England, and the emperours sister. About the beginning of March they returned, bringing with them the cardinall, intituled of saint Praxed, and the duke of Tarsilia, and other nobles that came from the emperor, to treat with the king & his coun|cell about the same marriage. This cardinall,The cardinal of Praxed. whe|ther he passed the bounds of his commission and au|thoritie to him granted by the pope (as some write) or whether he was furnished with such faculties, he was very liberall in bestowing of them abrode on all such as would come with monie. Indulgences, which the pope had vsed onelie to reserue for himselfe to be|stow, this man granted the same liberallie, both bi|ennals and triennals.Triennals. He gaue also letters confes|sionall, EEBO page image 429 to all those that would paie for them, admit|ting aswell beneficed men as other,All for monie. to be the popes chapleins. He made notaries for monie, and denied not altars portatiue to anie that would pay for them.