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On thursdaie next after Easter, he remooued to master Fitz Williams, sometime a merchant-tailor of London, and then of the kings councell; the next wéeke he remooued to Stamford, the next daie to Grantham, the next daie to Newarke, and lodged in the castell that night and the next daie also: from thence he rode to Southwell, where he continued most part of all that summer, vntill the latter end of grasse time, and then he rode to Scrobie, where he continued vntill Michaelmasse, and then to Cawood castell within seuen miles of Yorke, whereof we will speake more hereafter. On the sixtéenth of Maie, a man was hanged in chaines in Finsburie field,Uicar of S. Brides slain. for murthering doctor Miles vicar of saint Brides. The fourth and fift of Nouember was a great wind,A great wind. that blew downe manie houses and trées, after which wind followed so high a tide, that it drowned the marshes on Essex side and Kent, with the Ile of Thanet, and other places, destroieng much cattell. The nineteenth of September, in the citie of Lon|don, a proclamation was made for the restreining of the popes authoritie in England, as followeth.

20.1. A proclamation published in Eng|land in the behalfe of the kings prero|gatiue roiall against the pope.

A proclamation published in Eng|land in the behalfe of the kings prero|gatiue roiall against the pope.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 _THe kings highnes streictlie char|geth and commandeth, that no maner of person, of what estate, degree, or condition soeuer he or they be of, doo purchase or attempt to pur|chase from the court of Rome or elswhere, nor vse & put in execution, diuulge, or pub|lish anie thing hertofore within this yeare passed purchased, or to be purchased here|after, conteining mater preiudiciall to the high authoritie, iurisdiction, and preroga|tiue roiall of this his said realme, or to the let, hinderance, or impechment of his gra|ces noble & vertuous intended purposes in the premisses, vpon paine of incurring his highnesse indignation, and imprison|ment, and further punishment of their bo|dies for their so dooing at his graces plea|sure, to the dreadfull example of all other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Some iudged, that this proclamation was made,What was su [...]mised to be the cause of this procla|mation. bicause the quéene (as was said) had purchased a new bull for ratification of hir marriage. Others thought that it was made, bicause the cardinall had EEBO page image 915 purchased a bull to cursse the king, if he would not restore him to his old dignities, and suffer him to correct the spiritualtie, the king not to meddle with the same. In déed manie coniectured, that the cardi|nall grudging at his fall from so high dignities, stic|ked not to write things sounding to the kings re|proch, both to the pope, and other princes; for that ma|nie opprobrious words were spoken to doctor Ed|ward Kéerne the kings orator at Rome, and that it was said to him, that for the cardinals sake the king should haue the worse spéed in the sute of his matri|monie.

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