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Compare 1587 edition: 1 It was ordeined alſo the ſame time, that Sa|terday ſhould be kept as holyday from noone for|warde,Saterday after noone to bee kept holy. and greate puniſhment appointed for thẽ that tranſgreſſed this ordinaunce, in doing any bodily worke from Saterday at noone, til Mon|day in the morning.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this king William returned agayne into Englande to doe his homage vnto kyng Iohn,King Williã did homage to king Iohn of England. for the landes of Cumberland, Hunting|ton, and Northumberland.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Imediatly whervpon king Iohn willed him to paſſe with him into Fraunce, to make warres againſt the Frenchemen, and bicauſe he refuſed ſo to do, king Iohn made clayme to all the for|ſayd lands as forfayted to the crowne of Eng|land, and cauſed a great bootie of goods to be fet|ched out of the ſame: So that open warres had immediatly folowed, if the Engliſh Lords had not compelled king Iohn to make reſtitution of all the goodes ſo taken, bycauſe they thoughte it not expedient in any wyſe to haue warres wyth the Scottes at the ſame tyme, beeing already in trouble with the Frenchmen.

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