Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The priests of London being called afore the bishop that would haue had them contributaries to the pai|ment of the hundred thousand pounds, granted to the king for his pardon of the premunire, kept such a stir EEBO page image 928 in breaking into the chapiter house (where the bishop sat) all at once, and striking and buffeting the bishops seruants which gaue them euill language, that the bi|shop was faine to giue them his blessing, and suffer them to depart in quiet for that time. But after, vp|on complaint made to the lord chancellor, diuerse of them and of their partakers were arrested, and com|mitted to prison, to the number of fifteéne priests, and fiue laie men, some to the Tower, and some to the Fleet, and to other places, where they remained long after. Iohn Sow. ¶Thomas Bilneie, bachellor of law, was burnt at Norwich the ninteenth of August, and the fourth of December sir Rées Griffin was beheaded at the Tower hill, and his man named Iohn Hewes was drawne to Tiburne, and there hanged and quartered.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 The fiue and twentith of Maie, beteene London and Grauesend, were taken two great fishes called whorlepooles, male and female. ¶In this season, there was in the realme much preaching, one lerned man holding against another, namelie in the matter of the kings mariage. After Christmas, the parlement began to sit againe, in the which the commons found themselues sore gréeued with the crueltie of ordina|ries,Crueltie of ordinaries. that called men before them Ex officio. At length, a booke was drawne of all the griefes of the com|mons, for the cruell demeanor of the cleargie, and the same deliuered to th [...] K. by the speaker, humblie beséeching him in the name of all the commons, to take such direction therein, as to his high wisedome might séeme most expedient. The king answered, that he would take aduise, and heare the partie accu|sed speake. He was not so readie to gratifie the com|mons in their requests, as some thought that he would haue béene, if they had not sticked and refused to passe a statute, which he had sent to them touching wards and primer seasons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The parlemẽt proroged. Annates for|bidden to be paid.After this, was the parlement proroged till the tenth of Aprill. In this parlement was an act made, that bishops should paie no more annates or monie for their bulles to the pope: for it was prooued that there had béene paid for bulles of bishops, since the fourth yeare of Henrie the seuenth an hundred thrée|score thousand pounds sterling, beside other dispen|sations & pardons. When the parlement was begun againe after Easter, there was a motion made to helpe the king with monie toward his charges about the edifieng of houses, piles, and other fortifications, vpon the borders fore against Scotland, both for bet|ter habitation to be had there, & also for the restraint of the Scots that vsed to make inuasions. There was therefore a fiftéenth granted, but not enacted at this session,A fiftéenth granted. bicause that [...] began a pesti|lence in Westminster, [...] parlement was proroged, as ye shall heare in the ne [...] yeare.