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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time, king Henrie passed ouer into Normandie, hearing that the old grudge betwixt him & king Lewes began to be renewed vpon this occasion, that whereas king Henrie had receiued the French kings daughter Alice, promised in mariage vnto his sonne Richard, to remaine in England with him, till she were able to companie with hir husband, king Henrie being of a dissolute life, and giuen much to the pleasure of the bodie (a vice which was graffed in the bone and therefore like to sticke fast in the flesh, for as it is said,

Quod noua testa capit inueterata sapit)
at leastwise (as the French king suspected) began to fantasie the yoong ladie, and by such wanton talke and companie-kéeping as he vsed with hir, he was thought to haue brought hir to consent to his fleshlie lust, which was the cause wherefore he would not suf|fer his sonne to marrie hir, being not of ripe yeares nor viripotent or mariable. Wherefore the French king imagining (vpon consideration of the other kings former loose life) what an inconuenience & in|famie might redound to him and his, R. Houed. bethought him|selfe that
Turpe senex miles turpe senilis amor,
and therefore déemed iustlie that such a vile reproch wrought against him in his bloud, was in no wise to be suffered, but rather preuented, resisted & withstood. Herevpon he complained to the pope, who for re|dresse thereof, sent one Peter a preest, & cardinall in|tituled of saint Grisogone as legat from him into France, with commission to put Normandie and all the lands that belonged to king Henrie vnder in|derdiction, if he would not suffer the mariage to be solemnized without delaie betwixt his sonne Richard and Alice the French kings daughter. The king ad|uertised hereof, came to a communication with the French king at Yurie, vpon the 21. of September,The kings meet at Yur [...]e. EEBO page image 102 and there offered to cause the mariage to be solemni|zed out of hand, if the French king would giue in marriage with his daughter the citie of Burges, with all the appurtenances as it was accorded, and also vnto his sonne king Henrie the countrie of Ue|ulgesine, that is to say, all the land betwixt Gisors and Pussie, as he had likewise couenanted.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But bicause the French king refused so to doo, king Henrie would not suffer his sonne Richard to marrie his daughter Alice: howbeit at this enter|vew of the two princes, by the helpe of the cardinall, and other Noble men of both sides, they agreed to be freends, and that if they could not take order betwixt them, to end all matters touching the controuer|sies depending betwixt them for the lands in Anuer|gne and Berrie, and for the fée of Chateau Raoul; then should the matter be put to twelue persons, six on the one side, and six on the other, authorising them to compound and finish that controuersie and all o|ther which might rise betwixt them. For the French king these were named, the bishops of Claremount, Neuers, and Trois; and three barons, erle Theobald, Robert, and Peter de Courtneie, the kings brethe|ren. For the king of England were named the bi|shops of Mauns, Peregort, and Naunts; with three barons also, Maurice de Croume, William Maigot and Peter de Mountrabell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At the same time also, both these kings promised and vndertooke to ioine their powers togither, and to go into the holie land to aid Guido king of Ierusa|lem, whome the Saracen Saladine king of Aegypt did sore oppresse with continuall and most cruell war. This doone, R. Houed. A law. the French king returned home, and king Henrie came to Uernueil, where he made this ordi|nance, that no man should trouble the vassall or ten|nant, as we may call them, for his lords debt.

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