Compare 1577 edition: 1 Manie other noble men, whose hearts were good English, made like compositions, and some came in|to England, and others went to Calis, and bare great offices there: as the lord Duras, which was marshall of that towne; and monsieur Uauclere, which was deputie there vnder the earle of War|wike. Thus were the Englishmen cléerelie displaced and lost the possession of all the countries, townes,All lost in France. castels, and places within the realme of France; so that onelie Calis, Hammes and Guines, with the marches thereof remained in their hands, of all those their dominions and seigniories which they sometime EEBO page image 637 held in the parties beyond the seas. Whereby Eng|land suffered a partile but not a totall eclipse of hir glorie, in continuall loosing & nothing gaining of the enimie. ¶ Which recouerie was of great facilitie to the French, Abr. Fl. ex [...] sub He [...]. 6. for that where they came, they found litle or no resistance, but rather a voluntarie submis|sion & yéelding as it were with holding vp of hands, yer they came to handstroks. So that in such victories and conquests consisted small renowme, sith without slaughter & bloudshed hardie enterprises are not at|chiued. Notablie therefore speaketh Anglorum praelia of these bloudlesse and sweatlesse victories, saieng:

Delphinus totos (nullo prohibente) per agros

Francorum transit, priùs expugnata receptans

Oppida: perfacile est populum domuisse volentem,

Tendentem manus vltrò; nec clarior ornat

Gloria vincentem fuso sine sanguine regna.

Anno Reg. 30. Iohn Hooker, aliàs Vowell. The king re|ceiued into Excester.[This yeare the king made a generall progresse and came to the citie of Excester, on mondaie the sixtéenth of Iulie at after noone, being the feast daie of saint Kenelme; and was receiued from place to place verie honorablie through the whole countrie. Before he came to this citie, he was met by all the cleargie in their degrées, some thrée miles, some two miles, and some at the citie, all in their copes, censing all the waies as they went. As soone as he came to this citie, he was first conducted to the cathedrall church in all most honourable order. When he had doone his oblations, he was conueied and lodged in the bishops house. During his abode here, there was a sessions kept before the duke of Summerset, and certeine men condemned to die for treason, and had iudgement to be executed to death.

The bishop and his clergie vnderstanding hereof, with open mouth complained vnto the king, that he caused a sessions to be kept within his sanctuarie, contrarie to the priuilege of his church: and that all their dooings (being doone against law) were of no effect. And notwithstanding the king and his coun|cell had discoursed vnto them the iust and orderlie procéeding,The bishop & his cleargie against the K. and the duke of Summer|set, &c. in de|fense of their ecclesiasticall priuilege. the hainousnesse of the offendors, and the necessitie of their punishment: yet all could not a|uaile, for holie church nor the sanctuarie might be pro|phaned (as they said) with the deciding of temporall matters. Wherevpon the king in the end yéelding to their exclaimes, released a couple of arrant traitors, and reuersed all his former lawfull procéedings, and so vpon the wednesdaie he departed and returned to|wards London.]