Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare the sister of the said archbishop Ri|chard was made abbesse of Berking. Ger. Dor. The archbi|shops conse|cratiõ distur|bed by the yoong king. But now tou|ching the new elected archbishop Richard, we find, that comming to Canturburie on the saturdaie af|ter his election, in hope to be there consecrated, he EEBO page image 85 [...] EEBO page image 86 was disappointed by letters that came from king Henrie the sonne, in forme as followeth.
5.1. A letter of yoong king Henrie touching the disappointment of archbishop Richards consecration.
A letter of yoong king Henrie touching the disappointment of archbishop Richards consecration.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 _HEnrie by the grace of God king of England, duke of Normandie, and earle of Aniou, sonne of king Hen|rie; to our deere and faithfull freend Odo, prior of the church of Canturburie, and to all the conuent there, sendeth greeting. By the assured report of some we vnderstand, that in your church and in other churches also, my father goeth about to institute certein persons not verie meet for such calling: and bicause (without our consent) it ought not so to be doone, who by reason of our kinglie annoin|ting haue taken vpon vs the kingdome and charge of the whole realme: hervpon we haue in the presence of many persons appealed to the see of Rome, and haue signified our appeale in that behalfe, made vnto our reuerend fathers and freends Albert and Theodorike, cardinals and legats of the apostolike see, by our writing and messenger, who like wise and discreet per|sonages haue assented therevnto. We haue likewise signified the same our appeale to our faithfull freends the bishops of London, Exce|ster, and Worcester, and as we haue appealed, so likewise we doo appeale vnder your testi|monie.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After the perusall of this letter, and the due consi|deration of the substance and summe of the same, (albeit no such afterclaps were suspected before) the bishops were altogither driuen to their shifts, some of them desiring to go forward with the conse|cration, and some supposing it better to yéeld vnto the appeale. The elect archbishop therefore first sent messengers to Rome with letters, not written onelie by himselfe, but also by all the bishops and conuent of Canturburie. After this he followed himselfe in person, and comming to the popes court, found there diuers aduersaries to his cause. For some were there that tooke part with the king the father, and some with the king the sonne, and so his businesse could haue no spéedie dispatch. In the meane time the ran|cor which king Henrie the sonne had conceiued a|gainst his father was so ripened, that it could not but burst out, and shew it selfe to the breach of all dutifull obedience which nature requireth of a sonne towards his father.