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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the king should passe ouer the sea, he con|sidered that the Scots would happilie attempt some|what to the preiudice of his subiects in his absence, which sticked not (he being within the realme) to rob both by sea and land. Wherefore to resist their ma|lice, he appointed sir Arthur Darcie with thrée hun|dred men to go vnto Berwike, to defend the borders from inuasions of the Scots, who shortlie after by the middle marches entred the realme, and came to a place called Fowberie, and stering certeine villa|ges in their waie, returned. The erle of Angus as then was at Berwike as a banished man; and the said sir Arthur determined to reuenge this displea|sure: and therevpon with foure hundred men made a rode into Scotland, and set a village on fire. Then immediatlie assembled togither eight hundred Scots, and began to approch néere to the English men, who perceiuing them, caused their trumpet to blow the retreit, and the erle and twentie with him shewed himselfe on an hill, euen in the face of the Scots, and the trumpet blew at their backs, so that the Scots thought that there had beene two compa|nies, which caused the Scots to flie,Scots dis|comfited by the English|men. and the English|men followed and slew a great number of them, and tooke manie of them prisoners.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 After Christmasse sir Thomas Audleie lord kée|per of the great seale was made high chancellor of England. And when the parlement began, Sir Thomas Audleie lord chancellor. because the office of the speaker was void, Humfreie Wing|field of Greis inne was chosen speaker. In this par|lement was an act made, that no person should ap|peale for anie cause out of this realme to the court of Rome, but from the commissarie to the bishop, and from the bishop to the archbishop, and from the arch|bishop to the king; and all causes of the king to be tried in the vpper house of the conuocation.Quéene Ka|tharine to be named prin|cesse Dowa|ger. It was also enacted the same time, that quéene Katharine should no more be called queene, but princesse Dowa|ger, as the widow of prince Arthur. ¶In the season of the last summer died William Warham archbi|shop of Canturburie, and then was named to that sea Thomas Cranmer the kings chapleine, a man of good learning, and of a vertuous life, which latelie before had béene ambassador from the king to the pope.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After that the king perceiued his new wife to be with child, he caused all officers necessarie to be appointed to hir, and so on Easter euen she went to hir closet openlie as quéene;Quéene Anne. and then the king ap|pointed the daie of hir coronation to be kept on Whitsundaie next following: and writings were sent to all shiriffs, to certifie the names of men of fortie pounds to receiue the order of knighthood, or else to make fine. The assesment of the fine was ap|pointed to Thomas Cromwell, maister of the kings iewell house, & councellor to the king, a man newlie receiued into high fauour. He so vsed the matter, that a great summe of monie was raised to the kings vse by those fines. The matter of the quéenes appeale wherevnto she still sticked, and by no means could be remooued from it, was communed of, both in the parlement house, and also in the conuocation house, where it was so handled, that manie were of opinion, that not onelie hir appeale, but also all other appeales made to Rome were void and of none ef|fect: for that in ancient councels it had béene deter|mined, that a cause rising in one prouince should be determined in the same.

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