Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Unto these reasons thus propo [...]ed by the king (to [...] his purpose take effect) the archbishop and his [...] the rest of the bishops, answered verie pithilie, labouring to proue that it was more a|gainst the liberties of the church, than that they might with reason well allow. Wherevpon the king being moued exceedinglie against them, demanded whether they would obserue his roiall lawes and cu|stomes, which the archbishops and bishops in the time of his grandfather did hold and ob [...]ie or not? Where|vnto they made answere, that they would obserue them, [...] Salu [...] ord [...] suo, Their order in all things saued. But the king being highlie offended with such excep|tions vrged the matter so, that he would haue them to take their oth absolutely, & without all exceptions, but they would none of that. At length he departed from London in verie great displeasure with the bi|shops,The king of|fende [...] with the b [...]shops. hauing first taken from the archbishop Tho|mas all the offices and dignities which he enioied since his first being created chancellor.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Howbeit, after this, manie of the bishops séeing whervnto this broile would grow, began to shrinke from the archbishop, and inclined to the king. But the archbishop sto [...]d stiflie in his opinion, and would not bend at all, till at length not onelie his suffra|gans the bishops, but also the bishop of Liseur (who came ouer to doo some good in the matter) and the ab|bat of Elemosina (who was sent from the pope) per|suaded him to agree to the kings will, R [...]oued. in so much that being ouercome at last with the earnest suit of his freends, he came first to Woodstocke, and there promised the king to obserue his lawes, Bona fide, Faithfullie, R Houed. 1164 Ge [...]. Dor. A councell at Clarendon. and without all collusion or deceit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Shortlie after, in the feast of S. Hilarie, a councell was holden at Clarendon, whereto the archbishop, and in manner all the lords spirituall and temporall of the land made their repaire. Here the archbishop would haue willinglie started from his promise, if first the bishops, and after the earles of Leicester and Cornewall, Ger. Dor. Robert and Reignald (which Reignald was vncle to the king) and lastlie two knights tem|plers, had not moued him to yéeld to the kings will. But (among the rest) these two knights, namelie Ri|chard de Hastings, and Hoste [...]s de Boloigne were verie earnest with him, & at length preuailed, though not for conscience of dutie, wherewith he should haue beene touched; yet with feare of danger, which (by re|fusing to satisfie the kings will) he should haue brought not onelie vpon himselfe, but also vpon the the other bishops there present.