This knight would diuerse times put on a sur|plesse,Whether it w [...]re mattins or euensong it makes no matter. and helpe the préest in proper person to saie seruice: insomuch that vpon a time being at Chelsie, and busie about that exercise, the duke of Norffolke then liuing, came to the said sir Thomas, then lord chancellor of England, about speciall affaires: and being informed that sir Thomas was at the church; thither went the duke, expecting the end of seruice.Sir Thomas More de|uo [...]tlie giuen in his kind. In the end, the duke and the lord chancellor met, and after mutuall gréeting the duke said thus:

What! is my lord chancellor become a parish clarke? What will the kings maiestie saie to this geere, when he shall vnderstand that the lord chancellor of Eng|land, a speciall péere of the realme, and in highest roome of honor in the land next the prince is become a parish clarke?

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king of Scots knight of the garter.This yéere in the time that the king went his pro|gresse to Glocester, and to other places westward, the king of Scots was installed knight of the gar|ter at Winsore by his procurator the lord Erskin: and in October following, Stephen Gardner (which after the cardinls death was made bishop of Win|chester) was sent ambassador into France,The bishop of Winchester [...]mbassador into France. I. Stow. where he remained thrée yeeres after. ¶In August the lord Thomas Fitzgerard, sonne to the earle of Kildare, was taken in Ireland, and sent to the tower of Lon|don.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In the moneth of October, doctor Lée and other were sent to visit the abbeies,Uisitation of religious hou|se [...]. priories, and nunries in England, who set all those religious persons at libertie that would forsake their habit, and all that were vnder the age of foure and twentie yéeres and the residue were closed vp that would remaine. Fur|ther, they tooke order that no men should haue accesse to the houses of women, nor women to the houses of men, except it should be to heare their seruice. The abbat or prior of the house, where anie of the brethren was willing to depart, was appointed to giue to e|uerie of them a priests gowne for his habit, and for|tie shillings in monie, the nunnes to haue such appa|rell as secular women ware, and to go whither them liked best. ¶The eleuenth of Nouember was a great procession at London for [...]oie of the French kings recouerie of health from a dangerous sicknesse. ¶In December a surueie was taken of all chanteries, and the names of them that had the gift of them.