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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The fiue and twentith daie of Ianuarie began the parlement,A parlement. The summe of the bishop of Canturbu|ries oration in the parle|ment. where the bishop of Canturburie began his oration with this verse Iustitia & pax osculatae sunt. Upon which words he declared how iustice should be ministred, and peace should be nourished, and by what meanes iustice was put by, and peace turned into warre. And therevpon he shewed how the French king would doo no iustice in restoring to the king his right inheritance: wherfore for lacke of iustice, peace of necessitie must be turned into warre. In this par|lement was granted two fiftéens of the temporaltie, and of the clergie two tenths. After that it was con|cluded by the whole bodie of the realme in the high court of parlement assembled, that warre should be made on the French king and his dominions. Wher|vpon was woonderfull spéed made in preparing all things necessarie both for sea and land.

In this parlement was sir Robert Sheffeld knight, sometime recorder of London, Abr. Fl. ex [...]. pag. 896. speaker for the commons. During this parlement, in the moneth of March, a yeoman of the crowne, one of the kings gard, named Newbolt,Newbolt a yeoman of [...] gard hange [...] slue within the palace of Westminster a seruant of maister Willoughbies, for the which offense the king commanded to be set vp a new paire of gallowes in the same place where the said seruant lost his life; and vpon the same the said Newbolt was hanged, and there remained on the gallowes by the space of two daies. A notable exam|ple of iustice, whereby the king verefied the report that was commonlie noised abroad of him; namelie that he could not abide the shedding of mans bloud, much lesse wilfull murther. Wherein he shewed how tender he was ouer his subiects, and also how seuere against malefactors, speciallie mankillers; whome he thought vnworthie of life, that had béene the in|struments of others death; according to the law:

—oculos oculis & dentibus esseG [...]. Ha. in [...] 5.
Pensandos dentes: sic par erit vltio culpae.

¶ In this season one Ierome Bonuise, Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. xij Ierome Bo [...]uise the popes collector and proctor in England a false knaue which was borne in Luke, and was factor in London for mer|chants of that nation, and had plaied bankerupt, and was conueied out of the realme for debt, was now in such fauour with pope Iulie, that he made him his collector and proctor in England: & so he kept a great port, and resorted to the king and his councell for the popes affaires (which then was sore troubled by the French king) so that he knew both the popes coun|cell and the kings, and falselie and vntrulie resorted by night to the French ambassadours lieng in Lon|don, and to them discouered what the king and the pope intended, which was not so closelie doone, but the king knew it: and so he was laid for, & was taken communing with one of the said ambassadours vp|on London wall at midnight, and brought to the Tower, where he remained vntill by the sute of his freends he was deliuered, and shortlie for shame voi|ded the realme.]

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