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Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the winning of this towne, newes in post were brought into England to the queene, who cau|sed generall processions to be made, and Te Deum to be soong, giuing all laud and praise to almightie God for this great victorie. And in the stréets of euerie ci|tie and towne of the realme were made bonefires with great reioising: which sudden short gladnesse turned verie shortlie after to great & long sorow. For if ought were woone by hauing of saint Quintins, England got nothing at all, for the gaine thereof came onelie to king Philip. But the losse of Calis, Hammes and Guisnes, with all the countrie on that side the sea (which followed soone after) was such a buf|fet to England, as happened not in more than an hundred yeares before; and a dishonor wherwith this realme shall be blotted, vntill God shall giue power to redub it with some like requitall to the French.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Doctor Weston being (as you haue heard before) prolocutor of the conuocation house,Doctor We|ston resigneth the deanrie of Westminster by compulsion and is rec [...]m|pensed. was at this time in displeasure with cardinall Poole, and other bishops: bicause he was vnwilling to resigne his deanrie of Westminster vnto the queene, whose pur|pose was to place there (as in old time before) the re|ligion of moonks, whome in déed he fauoured not, al|though in all other things he stood with the church of Rome. Neuerthelesse, by verie importunate sute, or rather compulsion, he with his collegues resigned the deanrie of Westminster. In recompense wherof he was made deane of Windsor, where not long af|ter he was taken in adulterie, and for that fact was by the cardinall depriued of all his spirituall liuings, from whose sentence he appealed vnto the court of Rome. For the following of which appeale he sought secretlie to depart the realme: but he was apprehen|ded by the waie, and committed to the tower of Lon|don, where he remained prisoner, vntill (by the death of quéene Marie) quéene Elizabeth came vnto the crowne, by whome he was set at libertie, and foorth|with fell sicke and died.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The common talke was,The malice of cardinall Poole against king Henrie the eight. that if he had not so sud|denlie died, he would haue disclosed the purpose of the chiefe of the clergie, meaning the cardinall, which was to haue taken vp K. Henries bodie at Wind|sor, and to haue burned it, as manie thought. The thir|tith of Nouember, being saint Andrews daie,Sir Thomas Tresham made lord of saint Iohns of Ierusalem. in the forenoone, the quéene came from saint Iames to hir palace at Westminster, where she heard masse: at the which, sir Thomas Tresham knight receiued EEBO page image 1135 the order of the crosse,Calis not fur|nished with a sufficient number of men. & was instituted lord of saint Iohns of Ierusalem in England. At this time, al|though there was open hostilitie and warre betwéen England & France: yet contrarie to the common cu|stome before vsed, the towne of Calis and the forts thereabouts were not supplied with anie new ac|crewes of soldiors, but rather withdrawne from thense, and discharged. Which negligence was not vnknowne to the enimie, who long before had prac|tised the winning of the said towne and countrie.

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