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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the Wicleuists perceiued this, they set vp|on him that so disquieted the congregation, and lai|eng hands on him, threw him downe, trode him vn|der their féet, and lent him manie a good buffet: and chasing all the other friers awaie, they were fullie bent to haue killed them, and set their house on fier, crieng out with lowd voices;

Let vs destroie these murtherers, let vs burne these Sodomits, and hang vp such traitors of the king and realme. And run|ning thus with such a furious noise and outrage, they purposed verelie to haue set fire on the friers lod|gi [...]s, but that through the humble praier of frier Thomas Ashborne, and one that was his fellow, be|ing reputed for two good men, and doctors of diuini|tie, they were staied.
The comming also of one of the shirifes of London holpe much to appease them, so that by his persuasion, they returned home to their houses. But Peter Pateshull, being mainteined a|mong them, was counselled, sith he was interrupted in his sermon, to set downe in writing all such mat|ters as he was about to intreat of,A libell by fri|er Pateshull against his brethren. & what he knew further. He therefore deuised a libell, in which he accu|sed diuerse of his brethren, of murthering sundrie of their fellowes.

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