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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 You haue heard how king Henrie promised the earle of Morienne, when the marriage was conclu|ded betwixt his son Iohn and the said earles daugh|ter, to giue vnto the said Iohn certeine townes in Normandie, for the better mainteining of his estate and his wiues. This gift of the fathers caused his el|dest sonne the yong king Henrie, the sooner to powre out his poison which he had sucked before at his being with his father in law king Lewes. For conceiuing an offense, that his father should giue away any por|tion of his inheritance, Wil. Paruus. he would not condescend to any such gifts, but alledged that sithens he was king of England, and that all belonged to him, his father could not now haue any title to giue awaie that which did in no wise apperteine vnto him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 There was another cause that troubled his mind also, and mooued him to grudge at his father, which was; for that the proportion of his allowance for maintenance of his houshold and port was verie slender, and yet more slenderlie paied. Also his father remooued from him certeine of his seruants, as As|tulfe de S. Hilarie,Astulfe de S. Hilarie a counsellor or rather corrup|ter of king Henrie the sonne. Polydor. and other whome he suspected to giue him euill counsell. Wherefore those that were procurers of him to attempt the seizing of the go|uernement into his hands, vpon this occasion slept not, but put into his head such matter, that at length he openlie demanded to haue the whole rule commit|ted to him: which when he saw would not be obtei|ned of his father by quiet meanes, he fled secretlie a|waie vnto his father in law king Lewes,King Henrie the sonne fled to the French king. requiring aid of him to recouer his right, which king Henrie the elder vniustlie deteined from him.

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