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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king giuing eare to their complaint, was so displeased in his mind against archbishop Thomas, that in open audience of his lords, knights, and gen|tlemen, he said these or the like words:The occasion of the kings words that cost bish. Bec|ket his life. In what mi|serable state am I, that can not be in rest within mine owne realme, by reason of one onelie préest? Neither is there any of my folkes that will helpe to deliuer me out of such troubles.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There were some that stood about the king, which gessed by these words, that his mind was to signifie how he would haue some man to dispatch the archbi|shop out of the waie. The kings displeasure against the archbishop was knowne well inough, which cau|sed men to haue him in no reuerence at all, so that (as it was said) it chanced on a time, that he came to Strowd in Kent, where the inhabitants meaning to doo somewhat to his infamie, being thus out of the kings fauour, and despised of the world, cut off his horsses taile.