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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The bishop was then at Windesor where the court laie, who being informed of this matter, by a grée|uous report, and happilie in worsse manner than the thing had happened indeed, tooke such indignation therewith, that taking with him Thomas Arundell archbishop of Yorke, then lord chancellor of Eng|land,The bishop of Salisburie maketh a greé+uous cõplaint of the Londo|ners to the king. he went to the king and made an heinous com|plaint against the citizens for their misdemeanor, so that his displeasure was the more kindled against the citizens, in so much that, whether in respect of this last remembred complaint, or rather for their vncourte|ous deniall to lend him the thousand pounds, and mis|using the Lombard that offered to lend the same,The maior & shiriffes of London sent for to Wind|sore to the king, & there imprisoned. I cannot saie; but sure it is, that the maior and shiriffe, and a great sort more of the citizens, were sent for to come to the court, where diuerse misdemeanors were obiected and laid to their charge: and notwithstan|ding, what excuse they pretended, the maior and shi|riffes with diuerse other of the most substantiall citi|zens, were arrested. The maior was committed to the castell of Windesor, and the other, vnto other ca|stels and holds, to be safelie kept, till the king, by the aduise of his councell, should determine further what should be doone with them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The liberties of London seized.The liberties of the citie were seized into the kings hands, and the authoritie of the maior vtterlie ceassed, the king appointing a warden to gouerne the citie, named sir Edward Darlingrug knight,A gardian ap|pointed to go|uerne the citie of London. that should both rule the citie, and see that euerie man had iustice ministred, as the case required. This sir Edward Darlingrug began to gouerne the citie of Lon|don by the name of lord warden, Anno Reg. 16. Sir Edward Darlingrug lord warden of London. the one and twen|tith of Iune, on which day the king entered into the 16 yeare of his reigne: by reason it was thought that the said sir Edward Darlingrug was ouer|fauourable to the citizens, he continued in his office but till the first of Iulie, and being then discharged,Darlingru [...] remoued, [...] Baldwine Radington made lord warden o [...] London. one sir Baldwine Radington, a right circumspect and discréet knight, was put in that roome, who knew how both to content the kings mind, and to comfort the citizens, and put them in hope of the kings fauour in time to be obteined, to the reliefe of their sorow and heauinesse.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At length, the king, through sute and instant la|bour made by certeine noble men, speciallie the duke of Glocester, began somewhat to relent and pa|cifie himselfe, as touching his rigorous displeasure a|gainst the Londoners, calling to mind the great ho|nour he had diuerse waies receiued at their hands, with the great gifts which they had likewise bestowed vpon him, wherevpon he purposed to deale the more mildlie with them, and so sent for diuerse of the chiefe citizens to come vnto Windesor, where he then kept his court, there to shew foorth the priuileges, li|berties, and lawes of their citie, as well the new as old, that with the aduise of his councell, he might de|termine which should remaine in force, and which should be abolished. Herevpon,The liberties of London [...] part confir|med in part condemned. when the said priui|leges, and liberties were laid foorth, to the view of such persons as had to consider of them, some were ratified, some permitted by tolleration, and some vi|terlie condemned and abrogated.

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