Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Ambassadors were sent from the French king, vnto the king of England, to make an ouerture of peace to be had, Thom. Wals. Ambassadors from the French king for a perpe|tuall peace. Froissard. and to indure for euer betwixt the two realmes of England and France, sith that by warre it was apparant inough, that neither realme, could greatlie benefit it selfe, but rather sore inda|mage either other, as afore time it had come appa|rantlie to passe. Therefore the matter being well considered, both parts séemed well affected towards some good conclusion by treatie to be had of a full and perfect peace. About the same time, by the king with the aduise of his councell, proclamation was made and published at London, that all beneficed men a|biding in the court of Rome,A proclamati [...] that all Eng|lish benefited men in Rome should return into Engla [...] being Englishmen borne, should returne home into England before the feast of S. Nicholas, vnder paine to forfeit all their benefices; and such as were not beneficed, vnder a paine likewise limited. The Englishmen hearing such a thunder clap a farre off, fearing the blow, left the popes court, and returned into their natiue soile.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The pope troubled with such a rumbling noise,The pope s [...]deth his nu [...]|cio to king Richard. sent in all hast as abbat as his nuncio vnto the king of England, as well to vnderstand the causes of this proclamation, as of statutes deuised and made latelie in parlement against those that prouided themselues of benefices in the court of Rome by the popes buls, which séemed not a little preiudiciall to the church of Rome: in consideration whereof the said nuncio re|quired that the same statutes might be repealed and abolished, so farre as they tended to the derogation of the church liberties: but if the same statutes were not abolished, the pope might not (said his nuncio) with a safe con [...]ience otherwise doo than procéed a|gainst them that made those statutes, in such order as EEBO page image 475 the canons did appoint. Moreouer the said nuncio de|clared to the king certeine dangerous practises be|twixt the antipape and the French king, as to make the duke of Touraine the French kings brother king of Tuscane and Lombardie, and to establish the duke of Aniou in the kingdome of Sicile.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Moreouer, he gaue the king to vnderstand, that if the French king might compasse by the antipapes meanes to be chosen emperour,The popes nuncio ope|neth to the king the Frẽch kings priuie practi|ses. he would séeke to v|surpe vpon ech mans right, and therefore it stood the king of England chieflie in hand to prouide against such practises in time. And as for the treatie of peace which the Frenchmen séemed so much to fauour, it was to none other end, but that vpon agreement once had, they might more conuenientlie compasse their purpose in the premisses. Furthermore the nun|cio earnestlie besought the king of aid in the popes behalfe against the French king,Nuncio if (as he threatned to doo) he should inuade him in Italie with open force. The king séemed to giue fauourable eare vnto the nuncio, and after aduise taken, appointed to staie till after Michaelmasse, at what time a parlement was appointed to be assembled, wherein such things as he had proponed should be weied and considered, and some conclusion taken therein.