Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, at this parlement the king gaue an Irishman named Augustine, the bishoprike of Wa|terford, which see was then void, and sent him into Ireland with Laurence the archbishop of Dubline to be consecrated of Donat the archbishop of Cassels. The same yeare, both England and the countries ad|ioining were sore vexed with a great mortalitie of people,A great derth. and immediatlie after followed a sore dearth and famine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 King Henrie held his Christmas at Windsor, and about the feast of the conuersion of saint Paule he came to Northampton, Anno Reg. 22. 1176 & after the mortalitie was well ceassed,A parlement at North|hampton. he called a parlement, whereat was pre|sent a deacon cardinall intituled of S. Angelo, being sent into England as a legat from the pope, to take order in the controuersies betwixt the two archbi|shops of Canturburie and Yorke. This cardinall whose name was Hugh Petro Lion, assembled in the same place a conuocation or synod of the bishops and cleargie, Matth. Paris. as well of England as Scotland: in which conuocation, after the ceassing of certeine strifes and decrées made as well concerning the state of common-wealth, as for the honest behaui|our of mans life, the cardinall consented that (accor|ding as by the kings lawes it was alreadie ordei|ned) all maner of persons within the sacred orders of the cleargie,An act against preests that were hunters. which should hunt within the kings grounds and kill any of his deare, should be conuen|ted and punished before a temporall iudge. Which li|bertie granted to the king, did so infringe the immu|nitie which the cleargie pretended to haue within this realme, that afterwards in manie points, préests were called before temporall iudges, and punished for their offenses as well as the laitie, though they haue grudged indéed and mainteined that they had wrong therein, as they that would be exempted and iudged by none, Polydor. except by those of their owne order.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, in this councell the matter came in question touching the obedience which the bishops of Scotland did owe by right vnto the archbishop of Yorke,Obedience of the church of Scotland to the church of England. whom from the beginning the popes of Rome had constituted and ordeined to be primat of all Scotland, and of the Iles belonging to that realme, as well of the Orkeneis as all the other. Which con|stitution was obserued by the bishops of those parts manie yeares togither, though after they renounced their obedience. Whervpon the archbishops of Yorke (for the time being) continuallie complained, so that these popes, Paschall the second, Calyxt the second, Honorius, Innocentius, Eugenius the third, and A|drian the fourth, had the hearing of the matter, and with often sending their letters, went about to re|duce them to the prouince of Yorke. But the Scots still withstanding this ordinance, at length the mat|ter thus in controuersie was referred to pope Alex|ander, who sent the foresaid cardinall Hugh as well to make an end of that contention, as of diuerse o|ther: but yet he left it vndecided.