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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 There were some also of the kings seruants, that thought after an other maner of sort to reuenge the displeasure doone to the kings maiestie,The knights that slue the archbishop Becket. as sir Hugh Moreuile, sir William Tracie, sir Richard Bri|taine, and sir Reignold Fitz Urse, knights, who ta|king aduice togither, and agréeing in one mind and will, tooke shipping, & sailed ouer into England, lan|ding at a place called Dogs hauen, néere Douer.