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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now the first night they lodged in the castell of Saltwood, which Randulfe de Broc had in keeping. The next morning (being the 29. of December, and fift daie of Christmasse, which as that yeare came a|bout fell vpon a tuesdaie) hauing gotten togither certeine souldiers in the countrie thereabouts, came to Canturburie, and first entring into the court of the abbeie of S. Augustine, they talked with Claren|bald the elect abbat of that place: and after confe|rence had with him, they proceeded in their businesse as followeth.