To this compassion was ioined the infinite cla|mors of men forced against all law of humanitie, partlie to wrest from them vnreasonable ransomes, and partlie to disclose their goods which [...] had hid|den from the rauine of the souldiors. All [...] things, sacraments and reliks of saints, whereof the chur|ches were full, being despoiled of their ornaments, were pulled downe, and laid vpon the earth, suffring no small prophanations, by the vile hands of the lanceknights. And whatsoeuer remained vpon the preies and spoilings of the imperialles, which were things but base and vile, were raked and caried a|waie by the pezants and tenants of the lands of the Colonnois, whose insolencie caried them into Rome during the generall furie. Onelie the cardinall of Colonno arriuing the daie after, preserued in his compassion the honor of manie women that happilie were fled for rescue into his house. The rumor went that the valuation and price of this sacke in gold,The value of this sacke in gold, siluer, and iewels. sil|uer, and iewels, amounted to more than a millian of duckats, but the matter of ransomes conteined a greater quantitie.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When Rome was thus taken by the imperials, and the pope brought into captiuitie, therewith the king was so incensed against the emperour by the instigation of the cardinall, that he had determined not to spare anie treasure for the popes deliuerance. There rose a secret brute in London that the kings confessor doctor Longland,The kings marriage brought in question. and diuerse other great clerks had told the king that the marriage betweene him and the ladie Katharine, late wife to his brother prince Arthur was not lawfull: wherevpon the king should sue a diuorse, and marrie the duchesse of Alan|son sister to the French king at the towne of Calis this summer: and that the vicount Rochford had brought with him the picture of the said ladie. The king was offended with those tales, and sent for sir Thomas Seimor maior of the citie of London, se|cretlie charging him to sée that the people ceassed from such talke.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But what so euer the commons talked, it was determined that the cardinall should go ouer into France as high ambassadour for the king, and to take with him twelue score thousand pounds, to be emploied on the warres to be made by the confede|rats against the emperour, if he would not condes|cend to such demands as the English ambassadours on the kings behalfe should exhibit vnto him.The cardinall goeth ambas|sadour into France. The third of Iulie this triumphant cardinall passed tho|rough London with twelue hundred horsse towards the sea side, and comming vnto Canturburie rested there, and there declared to the people what had chan|ced vnto the pope, and caused the moonks of Christes church to sing their Letanie after this maner:A procession. A new deut|sed letanie. Sancta Maria ora pro Clemente papa, &c. Then he exhorted the people to fast and praie for the popes deliuerance, ac|cordinglie as he had alreadie sent commissions vnto all the bishops within the realme to follow that or|der, which was to fast three daies in the weeke, and to vse in euerie parish solemne processions. The ele|uenth of Iulie the cardinall tooke shipping at Do|uer, and landed the same daie at Calis, from whense he departed the two and twentith of Iulie, and with him was the bishop of London Cutbert Tunstall, the lord Sands chamberleine to the king, the earle of Derbie, sir Henrie Guilford, sir Thomas Moore, with manie other knights and esquiers, in all to the number of twelue hundred horsse, and of carriages there were foure score wagons, and three score mules and sumpter horsses.