Compare 1577 edition: 1 But here (to stay a litle with temporall affaires) it shall not be amisse to rehearse the effect of a conten|tion, which fell about this time betwéene that king and the archbishop of Canturburie. For so it happe|ned (as Geruasius Dorobernensis writeth) that pope Eugenius came this yeare into France, Ger. Dor. about the middest of Lent, and afterward held a synod or coun|cell at Rhemes: wherevnto Theobald archbishop of Canturburie, with others of the English bishops were summoned. The archbishop therevpon asking licence of the king, & not obteining it, found meanes to steale awaie in a small bote, not without danger of his person.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now therefore the case of this Theobald stood ve|rie hard: for Henrie bishop of Winchester the kings brother through enuie had so wrought, that if the archbishop passed ouer without licence, he should be confined of the king. Againe, he was sure, if he came not to the councell, that he should be suspended by the pope. Herevpon the archbishop meaning rather to offend the king than the pope, got ouer, as it were swimming, rather than sailing; the vessell where|in he passed ouer being starke naught: for all the ports were kept by the kings seruants, so that he was glad to take such a bote as came next to hand. In consideration whereof he was highlie commen|ded by the pope.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this councell the prebendaries of Yorke, togi|ther with Henrie Mordach then abbat of Fount|ney, presented themselues, exhibiting their com|plaint against William archbishop of Yorke, for that (as they alledged) he was neither canonicallie chosen, nor lawfullie consecrated, but intruded by the kings authoritie. At length archbishop Willi|am was conuicted and deposed, Albert bishop of Ho|stia pronouncing sentence in this wise:

We doo de|crée by the apostolike authoritie, that William arch|bishop of Yorke is to be deposed from his sée, bicause Stephan king of England, before any canonicall e|lection, named him.