Compare 1577 edition: 1 A subsidie granted and appointed to be sp [...]nt ac|cording to y^e discretion of the nobilitie.Howbeit at length, through the earnest sute of some of the great lords, there was granted to the king halfe a tenth and halfe a fiftéenth, which should not be spent at the pleasure of the prince, but by the order and appointment of the said lords, & so at length the earle of Arundell was appointed to receiue it, to furnish him with a nauie to the seas. But before this paiment might be granted, there was much adoo, & hard bold: for where the said earle of Suffolke then lord chancellor, at first had demanded of the com|mons in the kings name, foure fiftéens (for with lesse (said he) the king could not mainteine his estate and the warres which he had in hand) the whole bodie of the parlement made answer thereto, that without the king were present (for he was then at Eltham) they could make therein no answer at all: and here|with they tooke occasion at length to say further, that except the said earle of Suffolke were remooued from the office of chancellorship, they would meddle no further with any act in this parlement, were it ne|uer of so small importance.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king being aduertised hereof, sent againe to the commons,Dissention between [...] [...] king an [...] [...] parlement house. that they should send vnto Eltham (where he laie) fortie of the wisest and best learned of the common house, the which in the name of the whole house should declare vnto him their minds. And then the house was in no small feare, by reason of a brute that was raised, how the king sought meanes to in|trap and destroie them that followed not his purpose. Herevpon aswell the lords of the vpper house as the commons of the lower assembled togither, and a|gréed with one consent, that the duke of Glocester,The duke of Glocester and the bishop of Elie sent to y^ [...] K. at Eltham frõ the whole bodie of the parlement. and Thomas Arundell bishop of Elie, should in the name of the whole parlement be sent to the king vn|to Eltham: which was doone, and the king was well contented that they should come. When they came before his presence, with humble reuerence they de|clared their message, which consisted in these points: That the lords and commons assembled at that pre|sent in parlement,Their re|quests to the king. besought him of his lawfull fa|uour, that they might liue in peace and tranquillitie vnder him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 They further declared, that one old statute and laudable custome was approued, which no man could denie, that the king once in the yeare might lawfullie summon his high court of parlement,And often [...]r [...] néed require. and call the lords and commons therevnto, as to the highest court of his realme, in which court all right and equi|tie ought to shine as the sunne being at the highest, whereof poore and rich may take refreshing; where al|so reformation ought to be had of all oppressions,The causes & conditions of a parlement. wrongs, extortions, & enormities within the realme; and there the king ought to take counsell with the wise men of his realme, for the maintenance of his estate, and conseruation of the same. And if it might be knowen that any persons within the realme or without, intended the contrarie; there must also be deuised how such euill weeds may be destroied. There must also be studied and foreséene, that if any charge doo come vpon the king and realme, how it may be honorablie borne and discharged.