Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now when the archbishop heard that sentence was in such wise pronounced against him;

What maner of iudgement (saith he) is this? Though I hold my peace, yet the age that shall hereafter follow, will not hide it in silence; for sithens the world began, it hath not beene heard, that any archbishop of Canturburie hath béene iudged in any of the king of Englands EEBO page image 71 courts for any maner of cause; partlie in regard of the dignitie and authoritie of his office, and partlie bicause he is spirituallie the father of the king and all his people. This is therefore a new forme and or|der of iudgement, that the archbishop should be iud|ged by his suffragans, or the father by his sons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The next daie the king required of him the repai|ment of fiue hundred marks, which he had lent him when he was chancellor. Now although he affirmed that he receiued the same by waie of gift, and not by waie of lone;The archbish. condemned in fiue hundred markes. yet bicause he confessed the receit, he was condemned in that debt, forsomuch as he could not prooue the title of the gift.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 An assemblie of bishops.On the morrow after, the archbishop with his fe|low bishops being set in councell, by commande|ment of the king (& the doores fast locked that they should not get out) this was proponed against the archbishop, that whereas he held certeine bishops sées as then vacant, with abbeies, and other reuenues of his souereigne lord the king in his hands, and had made none account to him for the same of long time;The archbish. called to an account. the king required now to be answered at his hands, and that with all spéed, for he would haue no delaie. The summe amounted to thirtie thousand markes.