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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then the duke of Norfolke being asked what he said to this, he answered:

Right déere lord, with your fauour that I make answer vnto your coosine here, I saie (your reuerence saued) that Henrie of Lan|caster duke of Hereford, like a false and disloiall trai|tor as he is, dooth lie, in that he hath or shall say of me otherwise than well.
No more said the king, we haue heard inough: and herewith commanded the duke of Surrie for that turne marshall of England,The duke of Surrie mar|shall and the duke of Au|marle con|stable of Eng|land. to ar|rest in his name the two dukes: the duke of Lanca|ster father to the duke of Hereford, the duke of Yorke the duke of Aumarle constable of England: and the duke of Surrie marshall of the realme vndertooke as pledges bodie for bodie for the duke of Hereford: but the duke of Northfolke was not suffered to put in pledges, and so vnder arrest was led vnto Wind|sor castell, and there garded with kéepers that were appointed to sée him safelie kept.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now after the dissoluing of the parlement at Shrewsburie, there was a daie appointed about six wéeks after, for the king to come vnto Windsor, to heare and to take some order betwixt the two dukes, which had thus appealed ech other.The order of the procéeding in this ap|peale. There was a great scaffold erected within the castell of Windsor for the king to sit with the lords and prelats of his realme: and so at the daie appointed, he with the said lords & prelats being come thither and set in their places, the duke of Hereford appellant, and the duke of Nor|folke defendant, were sent for to come & appeare be|fore the king, sitting there in his seat of iustice. And then began sir Iohn Bushie to speake for the king, declaring to the lords how they should vnderstand, that where the duke of Hereford had presented a sup|plication to the king, who was there set to minister iustice to all men that would demand the same, as apperteined to his roiall maiestie, he therefore would now heare what the parties could say one against EEBO page image 494 an other, and withall the king commanded the dukes of Aumarle and Surrie, the one being constable, and the other marshall, to go vnto the two dukes, appel|lant and defendant, requiring them on his behalfe, to grow to some agréement: and for his part, he would be readie to pardon all that had beene said or doone amisse betwixt them, touching anie harme or dishonor to him or his realme: but they answered both assuredlie, that it was not possible to haue anie peace or agréement made betwixt them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 When he heard what they had answered, he com|manded that they should be brought foorthwith be|fore his presence, to heare what they would say. Here|with an herald in the kings name with lowd voice commanded the dukes to come before the king, ei|ther of them to shew his reason, or else to make peace togither without more delaie. When they were come before the king and lords, the king spake himselfe to them, willing them to agree, and make peace togi|ther:

for it is (said he) the best waie ye can take
. The duke of Norfolke with due reuerence herevnto an|swered it could not be so brought to passe, his ho|nor saued. Then the king asked of the duke of Here|ford, what it was that he demanded of the duke of Norfolke, and
what is the matter that ye can not make peace togither, and become friends?

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