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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 ¶ You haue heard before how the cardinall was attainted in the premunire, Abr. Flem. ex Edw. Hall. in H. 8. fol. cxcj.cxcij. and how he was put out of the office of the chancellor, & laie at Asher. In this Lent season the king by the aduise of his councell li|cenced him to go into his diocesse of Yorke, & gaue him commandement to kéepe him in his diocesse,The cardinall licenced to re|paire into Yorkeshire. and not to returne southward without the kings speciall licence in writing. So he made great prouision to go northward, and a pparelled his seruants newlie, and bought manie costlie things for his houshold: and so he might well inough, for he had of the kings gentle|nesse the bishoprikes of Yorke and Winchester, which were no small things. But at this time diuerse of his seruants departed from him to the kings ser|uice,Thomas Crumwell aduanced to the kings seruice. and in especiall Thomas Crumwell one of his chiefe counsell, and chiefe dooer for him in the suppres|sion of abbeies. After that all things necessarie for his iournie were prepared, he tooke his waie north|ward till he came to Southwell, which is in his dio|cesse, and there he continued this yeare, euer grud|ging at his fall, as you shall heare hereafter. But the lands which he had giuen to his colleges in Oxford and Ipswich, were now come to the kings hands, by his atteindor in the premunire: and yet the king of his gentlenesse and for fauour that he bare to good learning, erected againe the college in Oxford,The kings college in Ox|ford otherwise called Christs church. and where it was named the cardinals college, he called it the kings college, & indowed it with faire possessi|ons, and put in new statutes and ordinances. And for bicause the college of Ipswich was thought to be no|thing profitable, therefore he left that dissolued.

In this yeare the emperour gaue to the lord ma|ster of saint Iohnes of Ierusalem, and his brethren the Iland of Malta lieng betwéene Sicill and Bar|barie, there to imploie themselues vpon Christs eni|mies, which lord master had no place sure to inhabit there, since he was put frõ the Rhodes by the Turke that besieged Uienna, but missed of his expectation. For the christians defended the same so valiantlie a|gainst the said Turke and his power,The number of the Turks that died at the siege of Uienna. that he lost manie of his men by slaughter; manie also miscar|ried by sicknesse and cold: so that there perished in all to the number of fourescore thousand men, as one of his bassats did afterward confesse, which was to him a great displeasure; and in especiallie bicause he neuer besieged citie before, but either it was yéel|ded or taken. In the time of this siege a metrician did make these two verses in memorie of the same:

Caesar in Italiam quo venit Carolus anno,
Cincta est ripheis nostra Vienna Getis.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the beginning of this yeare was the hauing and reading of the new testament in English tran|slated by Tindall, Ioie, and others, Anno. Reg. 2 [...]. The new te|stament tran|slated into English. forbidden by the king with the aduise of his councell, and namelie the bishops, which affirmed that the same was not trulie translated, and that therein were prologs and prefaces sounding to heresie, with vncharitable railing against bishops and the cleargie. The king therefore commanded the bishops, that they calling to them the best learned men of the vniuersities, should cause a new translation to be made, that the people without danger might read the same for their better instruction in the lawes of God, and his holie word. Diuerse persons that were detected to vse reading of the new testament, and other bookes in English set foorth by Tindall, and such other as were fled the realme, were punished by order taken a|gainst them by sir Thomas Moore then lord chancel|lor, who held greatlie against such bookes, but still the number dailie increased.

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