Compare 1577 edition: 1 He willed him likewise to haue in consideration the oth which he willinglie had receiued, that is, that he should aduance the honor of the church, and the mi|nisters thereof cherish and mainteine. Also, to haue in mind the danger and dishonour that redounded to such as brake their othes: so that he besought him to permit and suffer the church to inioy the priuileges and liberties, which in time of his predecessors it had inioied, requesting him to stand in awe of that king, by whom all kings did reigne; and to feare the cen|sures and condemnation that those incurred, which tooke and bereft from the church any good or right be|longing to it, who most certeinelie (said he) are ac|cursed. When the archbishop had vsed this, or the like speach,The kings answer to the archbishop. the king commanded him to go to his seat a|gaine, assuring him, that his intent and purpose was to leaue the church in as good state, or better, than he found it.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The archbishop herewith turning to the knights and burgesses of the parlement, said vnto them;
You, and such other as you be, haue giuen counsell vnto the king and his predecessors, to confiscate and take into their hands the goods and possessions of the celles, which the Frenchmen and Normans possessed here in England, and affirmed that by the same he and they should heape vp great riches, and indéed those goods and possessions (as is to be prooued) were worth manie thousands of gold: and yet it is most true, that the king at this day is not halfe one marke of siluer the richer thereby, for you haue begged and gotten them out of his hands, and haue appropriated the same vnto your selues, so that we may coniecture verie well, that you request to haue our temporal|ties, not to aduance the kings profit, but to satisfie your owne greedie couetousnesse, for vndoubtedlie if the king (as God forbid he should) did accomplish your wicked purposes and minds, he should not be one farthing the richer the yeare next after: and tru|lie, sooner will I suffer this head of mine to be cut off from my shoulders, than that the church should lose the least right that apperteineth to it.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The knights said little, but yet they procéeded in their sute to haue their purpose forward, which the archbishop perceiuing (as an other Argus, hauing his eie on each side, to marke what was doone) labou|red so to disappoint their dooings, that he wan the fa|uour of certeine of the temporall lords to assist him, who constantlie auouched by their consents, that the church should neuer be spoiled of the temporalties, and herein they acquited the archbishop and prelats, one pleasure for an other, which they had doone for them before, when the commons in this parlement required, that all such lands and reuenues as some|time belonged to the crowne, and had béene giuen a|waie, either by the king, or by his predecessors king Edward, and king Richard, should be againe resto|red to the kings vse; vnto which request, the archbi|shop and other the prelats would in no wise consent: thus by the stout diligence of the archbishop Arunde [...] that petition of the commons, touching the spirituall temporalties, came to none effect. [Yea the knights themselues, Abr. Fl. o [...]t of Thom. Walfi. Hypod. pag. 167. who verie instantlie had stood in this er|ror, acknowledging their maliciousnes & guiltinesse herein, besought the archbishop of Canturburie to pardon them; and gaue thanks that by his coura|giousnesse the church in this so troublesome a time re|uiued, calling to mind the saieng of an ethnike, by way of application, to the said archbishops hie praise:
—sub principe duroTemporibús malis a [...]sus es esse bonus.]