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Compare 1577 edition: 1 But when the archbishop would needs depart & go ouer into England, the French K. suffered him so to doo, dooing him all the honor he could at his leaue ta|king. Then the archbishop departing out of France, came into England, Matth. Paris. The archbi|shop Becket returneth into England. and landed at Sandwich about the first of December, in the seuenth yeare after his first departure out of the realme. Shortlie after his arriuall, Roger the archbishop of Yorke, Gilbert bi|shop of London, and Iocelin bishop of Salisburie, with diuerse other, came vnto him as to the popes le|gat, and required that it might please him to restore them to the ministration of their offices againe: whose request he granted, but yet vpon condition, that they should vndertake to stand to his iudge|ment and order in all things, which (by the counsell of the archbishop of Yorke) they vtterlie refused.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ Here authors agrée not (as Polydor trulie saith) for some write that archbishop Thomas (immediatlie vpon his returne into England) denounced the arch|bishop of Yorke with the bishops of Salisburie and London accurssed, whereas before they were depri|ued of the vse and administration of the sacraments. So [...]e [...]hers write, that now at his comming ouer into England from his [...]ile, he depriued them onlie of the ministration of the sacraments, togither with the bishops of E [...]ester, Chester, Rochester, S. Asaph, & Landa [...], which had [...]sonallie béene present at the coronation of king Henrie the sonne, to the deroga|tion of the dignitie of their primat the archbishop of Canturburie (as before you haue heard.) It shuld seeme yet by G [...]r. Doro [...]e [...]  that the archbishop of Yorke, and the bishop of Durham were suspended, and the bishops of London, Salisburie, and diuerse other excommunicated.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But how soeuer he vsed them, the archbishop of Yorke, the two bishops London and Salisburie,The archbish. of Yorke and other go ouer to the king to complaine of the archbishop Becket. Ger. Dor. being offended with his dooings, sailed ouer in|to Normandie, and there complained to king Hen|rie of iniuries doone to them by archbishop Thomas, gréeuouslie accusing him that he went about to take awaie their libertie of priesthood, to destroie, corrupt, and finallie to abolish both the lawes of God and man, togither with the ancient decrées and statutes of their elders; in somuch that he tooke vpon him to exclude bishops at his pleasure from the companie of christian men, and so being excluded, to banish them for euer: to derogat things meerelie preiudiciall to the kings roiall prerogatiue; and finallie to take a|waie from all men the equitie of lawes and ciuill orders.

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