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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Shor [...]lie after, the archbishop considering further of this oth which he had taken, [...] repente [...] himselfe greeuouslie therof, in so much that he [...] from [...] masse, till he had by confession and fruits of penance (as saith Matth. Paris) obteined [...] of the pope. For addressing and sending out mes|sengers with all spéed vnto the pope, with a certifi|cat of the whole matter as it laie, he required to be ass [...]iled of the bond which he had vnaduisedlie entred into. This suit was soone granted, in so much that the pope directed his especiall letters vnto him, con|teining the same absolution in verie ample and large manner, as Matth. Paris dooth report it. And thus began a new broile.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The archbishop in the meane time, perceiuing that the liberties of the church were now not onelie em|bezelled, but in maner extingu [...]hed, and being losh to make any further attempt against his former dea|lings, would now (without the kings knowledge) haue departed the realme, wherevpon comming to Romnie, he tooke shipping, to haue passed ouer into France, and so to haue gone to the popes court.The archbi|shop Becke [...] would haue [...] out of the realme. But by a contrarie wind he was brought backe into England, and thereby fell further into the kings dis|pleasure than before, in so much that, whereas an ac|tion was commensed against him of late for a ma|nor, which the archbishops of Canturburie had of long time held: now the matter was so vsed, that the archbishop lost the man [...]r, and was more [...]uer con|demned to paie the ar [...]rages, and thus his troubles increased euen through his owne malaper [...]nesse and brainesicknesse; whereas all these tumults [...]ight haue béene composed and laid asléepe, if he had béene wise, peaceable, patient, and obedient. For,
Vir b [...]nus & sapiens quaerit super omnia pacem,Vid [...]que min [...]ra pati, metuens grauiora,M. [...] sag. [...]Ne parus ex igni seelerata incendi [...] surg [...]nt.