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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now when he was got out, a great number of poore, weake and impotent people met him, saieng:

Blessed be God, which hath deliuered his seruant from the face of his enimie.
Thus with a great rout or companie, and with the clergie, he was honorablie conueied to the abbeie of S. Andrews: and looking behind and before him, as he passed thitherward, he said vnto those that went with him;
How glorious a procession dooth bring me from the face of the eni|mie? Suffer all the poore people to come into the place, that we may make merie togither in the Lord.
Hauing thus spoken the people had entrance, so that all the hall, parlours, and chambers being furnished with tables and stooles, they were conuenientlie pla|ced, and serued with vitt [...]ls to the full.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The verie same night before the cockcrowing he issued foorth by a little posterne gate, Rog. H [...]ed. The archbi|shop B [...]cket fled awaie in the night. and taking with him onelie two moonks of the Cisteaur order, the one named Robert Canne, and the other S. Cap|man, with one of his owne seruants called Roger de Broc, he fled awaie disguised in a white vesture and a moonks coule, and changing his name, caused himselfe to be called Dereman, & iourneied still all the night, and by daie laie close in one fréends house or other; till at last he got to Sandwich, and there ta|king ship, he sailed ouer into Flanders, and so went to France, where at the citie of Sens he found pope Alexander, into whose bosome he emptied whole cart lodes of complaints and greeuances.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king vpon knowledge that the archbishop was fled the realme,Gilbert Fol|lioth bishop of London was sent to the French king. sent Gilbert Follioth bishop of London, and William earle of Arundell in spe [...]die ambassage to the king of France, to signifie vnto him the whole matter and circumstance of the fal|ling out betwixt him and the archbishop, requiring him not to receiue the archbishop into his realme, but this request was little regarded of the French king, as appeared: for the archbishops cause was fa|uoured of manie, and the blame imputed to king Henrie, so that the archbishop found great grace with the French king, and no small fauour at the hands of the pope.

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