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Compare 1577 edition: 1 At length the knights with their seruants hauing sought the palace, came rushing into the church by the cloister doore with their swords drawne,The knights enter the church. As though archbishops can be no traitors. some of them asking for the traitor, and some of them for the archbi|shop, who came and met them, saieng; Here am I, no traitor, but the archbishop. The formost of the knights said vnto him:

Flee, thou art but dead. To whome the archbishop said, I will not flée. The knight s [...]ept to him taking him by the sléeue, and with his sword cast his cap besides his head, and said, Come hither, for thou art a prisoner. I will not (said the arch|bishop) doo with me here what thou wilt: and plucked his sleeue with a mightie strength out of the knights hand. Wherewith the knight stepped backe two or thrée paces. Then the archbishop turning to one of the knights, said to him, What meaneth this,The courage of the archb. Reig|nold? I haue doone vnto thée manie great pleasures, and commest thou now vnto me into the church ar|med? Unto whome the knight presentlie answered and said; Thou shalt know anon what is ment, thou art but dead: it is not possible for thee any longer to liue. Unto whom the archbishop answered: I am readie to die for my God, and for the defense of his iustice and the libertie of the church; gladlie doo I im|brace death, so that the church may purchase peace and libertie by the shedding of my blood.
And here|with taking on other of the knights by the haberge|on, he floong him from him with such violence, that he had almost throwne him downe to the ground. This was sir Will. Tracie, as he after confessed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then the archbishop inclined his head after the maner of one that would praie, pronouncing these his last words:

To God, to saint Marie, and to the saints that are patrones of this church, and to saint Denise, I commend my selfe and the churches cause.
Therewith sir Reignold Fitz Urse striking a full blow at his head,Edward of Cambridge. chanced to light vpon the arme of a clerke named Edward of Cambridge, who cast vp his arme to saue the archbishop: but when he was not able to beare the weight of the blow, he plucked his arme backe, and so the stroke staied vpon the arch|bishops head, in such wise that the bloud ran downe by his face. Then they stroke at him one after an o|ther, and though he fell to the ground at the second blow,The archbish. is slaine. yet they left him not till they had cut and pash|ed out his braines, and dashed them about vpon the church pauement. All this being doone, they rifled his house, spoiled his goods, and tooke them to their owne vses, supposing it lawfull for them being the kings seruants so to doo.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But doubting how the matter would be taken, after they had wrought their feat, they got them into the bishoprike of Duresme, there to remaine till they might heare how the king would take this their vn|lawfull enterprise: though (as they alledged) they had lustilie defended his cause, and reuenged his quarell as faithfull seruants ought to doo. Howbeit, it chan|ced otherwise than they looked it should haue doone: for king Henrie gaue them so litle thankes for their presumptuous act,The murthe|rers come to an euill end. Matth. Paris. W. Paruus. sounding to the euill example of other in breach of his lawes, that they despairing vt|terlie of pardon, fled one into one place, and another into another, so that within foure yeares they all di|ed an euill death (as it hath béene reported.) Some write, that they went to Rome by the kings com|mandement, and there presented themselues before the pope, to receiue such penance for their wicked act as he should enioine them. Herevpon the pope ap|pointed them to go vnto Ierusalem, there to doo their penance, where they remained certeine yeares, ap|plieng themselues verie diligentlie to performe the satisfaction of their offense, according to the maner prescribed to them by the pope, and so at length died.

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