Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the yeare 1177. king Henrie held his Christ|mas at Northampton, Rog. Houed. with his two sonnes Geffrey and Iohn, his other two sonnes the yoong king Hen|rie, and Richard earle of Poictou, were in the parts beyond the seas, as the king in Normandie, and the earle in Gascoigne, where he besieged the citie of Aques,The citie of Aques or Aigues. which the vicount of Aques and the earle of Bigorre had fortified against him, but he wan it within ten daies after his comming thither. Within the like terme also he wan the citie of Baion, which Arnold Berthram had fortified against him, and cõming to the vttermost frontiers of that countrie adioining to Spaine, he tooke a castell called saint Piero which he destroied, and constreined the Bas|ques and Nauarrois to receiue an oth, that from thencefoorth they should suffer passengers quietlie to come and go through their countrie, and that they should liue in quiet and keepe peace one with an o|ther, and so he reformed the state of that countrie, and caused them to renounce manie euill customes which they before that time had vnlawfullie vsed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, king Henrie, to auoid further slander, Anno Reg. 23. Polydor. Geffrey the kings base sonne made bishop of Lincolne. placed for bishop in the see of Lincolne a bastard son which he had named Geffrey, after h [...] had kept that bishoprike in his hands so long till he had almost cleerelie destroied it. And his sonne that was now made bishop to helpe the matter for his part, made hauocke in wasting and spending in riotous man|ner the goods of that church, and in the end forsooke his miter, and left the sée againe in the kings hands to make his best of it.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Furthermore, the king in times past made a vow to build a new monasterie in satisfaction of his of|fenses committed against Thomas the archbishop of Canturburie: wherefore he required of the bishops and other spirituall fathers, to haue some place by them assigned, where he might begin that foundati|on. But whilest they should haue taken aduise here|in, he secretlie practised with the cardinals, and with diuerse other bishops, that he might remoue the se|cular canons out of the colledge at Waltham, and place therein regular canons, so to saue monie in his EEBO page image 100 cof [...]rs, planting in another mans vineyard. How|beit, bicause it should not be thought he did this of such a couetous meaning, he promised to giue great possessions to that house,Préests dis|placed, & ca| [...]ns regular put in their r [...]omes. which he after but slender|lie performed, though vpon licence obteined at the bishops hands, he displaced the preests, and brought in to their roomes the canons as it were by waie of exchange.