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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These knights seemes to lament his case, as if alreadie they had seene naked swords shaken about his eares. And indeed, certeine of the kings seruants that attended vpon his person after the manner of a gard, went to and fro, rushing vp and downe the chamber, shaking their bright battell axes readie appointed, and looking as if they would forthwith run vpon the bishops. Wherevpon the archbishop being touched with remorse, and seeming to striue against his determinat purpose, consented to obey the kings pleasure, and so promised in the word of a priest, swering furthermore, that he would obserue the kings lawes and customes, without expressing these words, saluo ordine meo, [...] Mine order saued, which he had vsed before. The like oth did all the bishops take. But the archbishop refused at that time to seale to the writing that conteined the articles of the oth which he should haue obserued, requiring as it were a time to consider of them, sith in so weightie a matter nothing ought to be doone without good and deliberate aduice, wherefore he tooke with him a copie thereof, and so did the archbishop of Yorke an other, and the third remained with the king.