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Compare 1577 edition: 1 One of these two new bastiles the earle of Arun|dell woone by force from them that kept it: and bi|cause it séemed necessarie to be kept for a defense to the castell, if it were in the Englishmens hands, he committed it to the custodie of certeine English|men. The other being not yet finished, but begun in sumptuous wise to be builded, he set on fire and burned. This doone, furnishing the garison with suffi|cient vittels and munition to serue them for one whole yeare, he returned home into England, with great praise and commendation of the commons for his dooings. But the duke of Ireland, the earle of Suffolke, sir Simon de Burlie, and sir Richard Sturrie, that still continued about the king, séemed rather to enuie the earle of Arundels good name, than otherwise to commend him and others to the king,Enuie y^ [...] fol|lowers of ver|tue [...] prowesse that had béene foorth in that iournie, in so much that when the earle of Nottingham, otherwise called earle Marshall, that had béene euer the kings plai|fellow, and of equall age to him, came now to the court, hoping to be right welcome, and to receiue great thankes at the kings hands, he had no good countenance shewed vnto him, neither of the king, nor of the duke of Ireland, who disdaining once to talke with him, séemed to enuie the worthie prow|esse in other, which he knew defectiue and wanting in himselfe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Shortlie after, by the counsell of those lords and knights that remained about the king, the lord Hen|rie Percie,The lord Percie sent to the seas. sonne to the earle of Northumberland, was sent to the seas, to beate backe the attempts of the enimies, but he was slenderlie appointed to at|chiue anie great enterprise. This was doone of some enuious purpose, bicause he had got a name amon|gest the common people, to be a verie hardie and va|liant gentleman, as well among Englishmen, as Scots. But he either ignorant, or not much waieng of that which they craftilie had imagined against him, boldlie and valiantlie executed the businesse in|ioined him, and hauing remained abroad, during the whole time of his appointed seruice, returned safelie home. ¶ About the same time, a frier Carmelite, na|med Walter Disse, that had béene confessor to the duke of Lancaster, obteined in fauour of the same duke, at pope Urbans hands, certeine faculties, to be distributed to such as would praie & paie for them. Among other of those faculties, one was, to make all those whome he thought good, the popes chapleines, according to forme of law, and the custome vsed in the court of Rome.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Frier Pate|shull forsa|king his pro|fes [...]on prea|cheth openlie against his owne order.Now bicause such as obteined this fauour, inioied great liberties, manie were glad to bestow largelie, to be so preferred, the frier being redie to admit those that offered most. Among other, one Peter Pate|shull, a frier of the Augustines order, was made by him the popes chapleine, a man not vnlearned, and one that fauoured Wicliffes doctrine, and there vp|on forsaking his priuate profession, gaue himselfe to a publike trade of life, which might séeme to him more holie, commendable, and sure. Héerevpon, he tooke vpon him to preach against his owne order, namelie in a sermon which he made in saint Christo|phers church in London. He inueied so earnestlie a|gainst the abuses and heinous crimes which the fri|ers, sometimes his brethren, vsed to put in practise, that it was an horror to heare.Wickleuists. There were present an hundred at the least of Wicliffes opinion at his ser|mon. Now in the meane while that he so laid foorth what he knew against his late brethren, some per|sons there were that ran to the Augustine friers, and declared the whole matter; wherevpon a dozen of the hardiest and lustiest fellowes among them came to the church, where this Pateshull was preaching, and hearing what was said, they began to be sore moo|ued, insomuch that one of them more zealous in his religion than the other, stepped foorth, and gainesaid those things which the preacher proponed.

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