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Compare 1577 edition: 1 It should séeme also that they were called by other names, as the Routs (in Latine Ruptarij) which name whether it came of a French word, as ye would say some vnrulie and headstrong companie, or of the Dutch word Rutters, that signifieth a rider, I can|not say. But it may suffice for the course of the histo|rie to vnderstand that they were a kind of hired soul|diers, in those daies highlie estéemed, and no lesse fea|red, in so much that against them and others there was an article conteined among the decrées of the Laterane councell holden at Rome, in the yeare 1179, Wil. Paruus, lib. 3. cap. 3. whereby all those were to be denounced ac|cursed, which did hire, mainteine or any way nourish those Brebationes, Aragonois, Nauarrois, Basques and Coterelles, which did so much hurt in the christi|an world in those daies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to returne where we left to earle Richard, beside the aboue mentioned victorie against those Brabanders, if we shall so take them; he also van|quished Hamerike vicount of Limoges, and Willi|am earle of Angolesme, with the vicounts of Uen|tadore and Cambanais, who attempted rebellion a|gainst him, whome earle Richard subdued, and tooke prisoners, with diuerse castels and strong holds which they had fortified.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The depar|ture of the legat foorth of the Realme.About the feast of Peter and Paule, the legat de|parted out of the realme, of whom we find that as he granted to the king some liberties against the priui|leges which the cleargie pretended to haue a right vnto:Liberties ob|teined for churchmen. so he obteined of the king certeine grants in fauour of them and their order, as thus.

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