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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Doctor Pates.Doctour Pates being Ambaſſadour in the low Countreys, demaunded Fitz Giralde of the Emperour on his maiſter the King of Eng|landes behalfe. The Emperour hauing anſwe|red that he had not to deale with the boy, and for ought that he knewe, was not mynded to make any great abode in that Countrey, ſent hym to the Biſhop of Liege,The Emperor beſtoweth a pencion on Fitz Giralde. allowing him for his pen|ſion an hundred Crownes Monethly. The Bi|ſhop enterteyned him very honourably, had him placed in an Abbey of Monks, and was ſo care|ful of his ſafetie, that if any perſon ſuſpected, had trauayled within the circuit of his gleebe, hee ſhould be ſtraytly examined, whether he would, or from whence he came, or vpõ what occaſion he trauayled that way.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hauing in this wiſe remayned at Liege for halfe a yeare,Gardinal Pole ſendeth for Fitz Giralde. the Cardinall Poole (Fitz Giralde his kinneſman) ſent for him to Rome, wherevp|on the Gentleman as well with the Emperour his licence, as with ſurrendring his penſion, tra|uayled to Italy, where the Cardinall woulde not admit him to his companie, vntill he had at|teyned to ſome knowledge in the Italian tong. Wherefore allowing him an annuitie of three C. crownes, he placed him with the Biſhop of Verona, and the Cardinall of Mantua, and af|ter with the duke of Mantua.

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