¶ Where we haue to note the drift of the pope and all popelings to be far otherwise than they pretend. For who (vnlesse he will be wilfullie ignorant) know|eth not, that he and his neuer attempt any thing, but the same beareth the hew and colour of holinesse and honestie? Hereto tend the sendings out of his legats and cardinals to make pacifications, to redresse dis|orders, to appease tumults, & I wot not what infinit enormities (for he must haue his ore in euerie mans bote, his spoone in euerie mans dish, and his fingers in euerie mans pursse) but the end and scope of all his dooings consisteth in this; namelie, to set himselfe aboue all souereigntie, to purchase and assure to him|selfe an absolute and supereminent iurisdiction, to rob christian kingdomes, to impouerish churches, chapels, and religious places. Our chronicles are full of these his pranks, and here we haue one practi|sed by a lim of his, who (as you sée) verie impudentlie and licentiouslie preied vpon the church-goods, and conuerted the same to his owne profit and commodi|tie: which he had if not trembled, yet blushed to doo, considering that the goods of the church are the trea|surie of Christ (or at leastwise ought to be) and that none ought to alienate or change the propertie of such goods, as the canon law hath prouided. Besides, the wretch ought to haue remembred that which euen the verie pagans did not forget; namelie,
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Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to the dooings of Iohn de Curcie, and of those Englishmen that were with him, who did not onelie defend such places as they had woone out of the Irishmens hands against those kings and their powers, but also inlarged dailie more and more their frontiers, and wan the towne of Armach (wherein is the metropolitane see of all that land) with the whole prouince thereto belonging.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the same time came ambassadours vnto king Henrie from Alfonse king of Castile and Gar|sias king of Nauarre, to aduertise him, Matth. Paris. Polydor. that in a controuersie risen betwi [...]t the said two kings tou|ching the possession of certeine grounds néere vnto the confines of their realms, they had chosen him for iudge by compromise, promising vpon their oths to stand vnto & abide his order and decrée therein. Ther|fore they required him to end the matter by his au|thoritie, sith they had wholie put it to his iudgement. R. Houed. Furthermore, either king had sent a most able and valiant knight furnished with horsse and armour readie in their princes cause to fight the combat, if king Henrie should happilie commit the triall of their quarrell vnto the iudgement of battell. King Henrie gladlie accepted their request, Polydor. so that thervp|on calling his councellors togither, he consulted with them of the thing, and hearing euerie mans opini|on, at length he gaue iudgement so with the one, that the other was contented to be agreeable therevnto.