Compare 1577 edition: 1 Being admitted to declare their message in the consistorie before the pope,Roger archbi|shop of Yorke with others, are sent to the pope. they opened the whole cir|cumstance of the matter, from the beginning to the end, declaring that betwixt Thomas the archbishop of Canturburie and the king there was a controuer|sie moued, and by both their consents a daie appoin|ted for the hearing and determining thereof, as iu|stice should require. At the which daie (by the kings commandement) all the chéefest lords of the realme both spirituall and temporall were assembled, to the end that the more generall the méeting should be, the more manifest might the discouerie of the fraud and malice of the archbishop appeere.

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At the daie appointed (saie they) there came before the catholike prince his presence, the Nobles of his realme: and amongst other, the archbishop the dis|quieter both of the kingdome & church, who (as one not well assured of the qualitie of his owne deser|uings) blessed himselfe with the signe of the crosse at his comming into the court, as though he should haue come before some tyrant or schismaticall per|son. Notwithstanding all which contemptuous and ambitious behauiour, the kings maiestie was no|thing offended, but committed the iudgement of his cause to the faithfull order of the bishops, meaning so to deliuer himselfe of all suspicion of wrong dea|ling. Then it rested in the bishops hands to make an end of the controuersie, and to set a small vnion and agréement betwixt them. But the archbishop would none of that, alleging how it should be a de|rogation to the sée apostolike and his metropoliticall dignitie, to stand before the king in iudgement, or a|nie other temporall magistrate. And albeit (saie they) some diminution or eclipse might haue chanced to the dignitie of the church by that iudgement, yet it had beene his part to haue dissembled the matter for the time, to the end that peace might haue béene re|stored to the church. He further obiected (ascribing to himselfe the name of father, which seemed to sauour somewhat of arrogancie) that the children ought not to come togither to iudge the fathers cause, but it had béene far more necessarie that the humblenesse of the sons should mitigate the pride and temper the ambition of the father.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 To conclude, the kings ambassadors made ear|nest suit, that two legats might be sent from the pope,The kings tale could not be heard. to haue the hearing & discussing of all the mat|ter betwixt the king and the archbishop without any other appealing. But the kings tale could not be heard in that court, the archbishop hauing alreadie persuaded the pope to the contrarie. For comming to the pope, he vttered his complaint as followeth:The archbi|shop Bec [...]ct. Matt. Paris.