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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The bishop comming to the king, made report of the duke of Glocesters protestation, confirmed with his oth, in such wise, as the king began somewhat to be persuaded that it was true. But when the earle of Suffolke perceiued that, fearing least the reconcilia|tion of the king and the duke his vncle should turne to his undooing, he began to speake against the duke, till the bishop bad him hold his peace; and told him, that it nothing became him to speake at all.Stout words of the bishop of London. And when the earle asked why so;

Bicause (said the bishop) thou wast in the last parlement condemned for an euill person, and one not worthie to liue, but onelie it plea|seth the king to shew thée fauour.
The king offen|ded with the bishops presumptuous words, com|m [...]nded him to depart & get him home to his church, who foorthwith departed, and declared to the duke of Glocester what he had heard and séene. Herevpon, the great misliking that had beene afore time be|twixt the king and the lords, was now more vehe|mentlie increased, the duke of Ireland, the earle of Suffolke, the archbishop of Yorke, the lord chiefe iu|stice Robert Trisilian, and others, still procuring, stirring, and confirming the kings heauie displea|sure against the lords.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The duke of Glocester considering to what con|clusion these things tended, came secretlie to confe|rence with the earles of Arundell, Warwike, and Derbie,The lords confer how to preuẽt the perils preten|ded against them. who were in like danger, if they prouided not more spéedilie for their safetie, wherevpon he dis|couered to them the perill wherein they all stood in common, so that when they weied what was the most expedient meane to safe gard their liues, they gathered their power togither, determining to talke with the king with their armour vpon their backes, for their more suertie, as well concerning his pre|tense to bring them to their deaths, as for the fauour which he bare to those whom they reputed to be trai|tors, both to him, and to the whole state of the realme, whereby the same could not auoid spéedie ruine, if re|medie were not the sooner prouided. The king on the other part tooke aduise, how he might apprehend these lords (whom he tooke to be plaine traitors) ech one a|part, before they might gather their strengths about them; and first, he sent the earle of Northumberland and others, vnto the castell of Reigate, to take the earle of Arundell, who laie there at that present. But howsoeuer it fortuned,The earle of Northumber|land sent to apprehend the earle of Arundell. the earle of Northumberland came backe, and failed to accomplish that which he had in commandement.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this, a great number were sent by night, to haue laid hands on him, and to haue brought him to the kings presence; or in case he resisted, to haue slaine him, if by any meanes they might: but he be|ing warned by a messenger, that came to him from the duke of Glocester, conueied himselfe awaie, and with such bands as he had got togither,The earle of Arundell ioi|neth with the other lords. rode all that night, so that in the morning hauing passed thirtie miles, not without great trauell, and all speed possi|ble, he was in the morning aduanced to Haringie parke, where he found the duke of Glocester, and the earle of Warwike, with a great power of men about them. ¶ At the same time the king was about to set forward towards Canturburie, there to performe some vow of pilgrimage, which he had vndertaken to make vnto the shrine of Thomas Becket. But a brute was raised, and a slander (belike) contriued, to bring him in further hatred of his subiects, that he meant to steale ouer into France, vnto the French king hauing promised to deliuer vp into his hands the towne of Calis, with the castell of Guines, and all the fortresses which his predecessors had possessed in those parties, either by right from their ancestors, or by warlike conquest.

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