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Compare 1577 edition: 1 This bishop chose diuerse to be associat with him, as capteins that were expert in warlike enterprises.The capteins that wẽt with the bishop of Norwich a|gainst the an|tipape. The first and principall was sir Hugh Caluerlie an old man of warre, and one that in all places had borne himselfe both valiantlie and politikelie; next vnto him was sir William Farington, who stoutlie spake in the bishops cause, when the matter came in question in the parlement house, touching his going ouer with this cro [...]sie. Besides these, there went di|uerse noble men and knights of high renowme, as the lord Henrie Beaumount, sir William Elmham, and sir Thomas Triuet, Froissard. sir Iohn Ferrers, sir Hugh Spenser the bishops nephue by his brother, sir Mat|thew Redman capteine of Berwike, sir Nicholas Tarenson or Traicton, sir William Farington, and manie other of the English nation: & of Gascogne there went le sire de Chasteauneuf, and his brother sir Iohn de Chasteauneuf, Raimund de Marsen, Guillonet de Paux, Gariot Uighier, Iohn de Cachi|tan, and diuerse other. Sir Iohn Beauchampe was appointed marshall of the field, but bicause he was at that present in the marches of the realme towards Scotland, he was not readie to passe ouer when the bishop did. The duke of Lancaster liked not well of the bishops iournie, for that he saw how his voiage that he meant to make into Spaine was hereby for the time disappointed, and he could haue béene better contented (as appeareth by writers) to haue had the monie imploied vpon the warres against the king of Castile that was a Clementine, than to haue it bestowed vpon this voiage, which the bishop was to take in hand against the French king, and other in these néerer parts. Herevpon there were not manie of the nobilitie that offered to go with the bishop.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The statute against fish|mongers re|pealed, they are restored to their liber| [...]ies.But to saie somewhat of other things that were concluded in this last parlement, we find, that the fishmongers, which through meanes of the late lord ma [...]or Iohn of Northampton and his complices were put from their ancient customes and liberties, which they inioied aforetime within the citie, were now restored to the same againe, sauing that they might not kéepe courts among themselues, as in times past they vsed, but that after the maner of o|ther crafts and companies, all transgressions, offen|ses, and breaches of lawes and customes by them committed, should be heard, tried, and reformed in the maiors court. ¶ All this winter the matter touch|ing the gathering of monie towards the croisie, was earnestlie applied, so that there was leuied what of the disme, and by the deuotion of the people for obtei|ning of the pardon, so much as drew to the summe of fiue and twentie thousand franks.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the bishop therefore had set things in good forwardnesse for his iournie, he drew towards the sea side, and was so desirous to passe ouer,The bishop [...] Norwich set|teth forward with his ar|mie. and to in|uade his aduersaries, that although the king sent to him an expresse commandement by letters to re|turne to the court, that he might conferre with him before he tooke the seas; yet excusing himselfe, that the time would not then permit him to staie longer, he passed ouer to Calis, where he landed the 23 of A|prill, in this sixt yeare of king Richards reigne. The armie to attend him in this iournie, Polydor. rose to the num|ber of two thousand horssemen, and fifteene thousand footmen (as some write) though other speake of a far lesser number. Froissard. 500 speares, [...] 115 other. But it should seeme that they went not ouer all at one time, but by parts, as some before the bishop, some with him, and some after him.

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