Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ Some write, that now at this present, the king should ordeine or rather confirme the bishop of Elie his chancellour to be lord chéefe iustice ouer all Eng|land, and the bishop of Durham to be lord iustice from Trent northwards. But whensoeuer they were thu [...] aduanced to such dignities,Contention betwixt two ambitious bishops. howsoeuer they came by them, directlie or indirectlie, tr [...] it is, that immediatlie therevpon, strife and discord did arise betwixt them: for [...] proud and insolent, they disdained ech other, contending which of them should beare most rule and authoritie insomuch that whatso|euer séemed good to the [...] misliked, as in cases where parteners in authoritie are equall, it of|ten happeneth. The like hereof is noted before betweene the archbishops of Canturburie and Yorke in diuerse kings reignes. For the nature of ambition is to delight in singularitie, to admit no peere, to giue place to no superior, to acknowledge no equall. Hereto alludeth the poet verie neatlie, and exemplifieth it in the old Romans, the order of whose actions is continued at this day, as by the words insuing may be gathered, and ordinarilie obserued, booth here and elsewhere;

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Romulidae orabant, iacto post terga pudore,

Plebeios, quoties suffragio venabantur,

M. Pal [...]n sua v [...]g.

Cerdonumq(ue) animos precibus servilibus atq(ue)

Turpibus obsequijs captabant, muneribusq(ue)

Vt proprijs rebus curarent publica omississ

Perq(ue) forum medium multis comitantibus irent,

Inflati vt ventu folles, ac fronte superba, &c.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Moreouer, at the same time he caused his two bre|thren, earle Iohn, and Geffrey the elect archbishop of Yorke to take an oth not to returne into England during the terme of thrée yeares next insuing, with|out his consent and licence first had. This he did, fore|séeing what might happen, prouiding as it were a|gainst such practises as his brethren might happilie attempt against him. But yet his mother quéene E|lianor procured him to reuoke that decree immediat|lie, least it might seeme to the world, that hir sonnes should stand in feare one of another. And so the earle of Mortaigne was licenced to returne into Eng|land at his pleasure,Earle Iohn licenced to re|turne into England. swearing an oth at his depar|ture to obeie the kings beheast, and truelie to serue him, according to the dutie of a good and loiall sub|iect. The bishop of Elie lord chancellour and cheefe iustice of England was also sent backe hither into this realme, to set forward things behoouefull for the kings iournie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In like maner the king sent to Rome to obteine that the said bishop of Elie might be constituted the popes legat through both the prouinces of Cantur|burie and Yorke,The bishop of Elie re|turneth. and likewise through Wales and Ireland. Which was soone granted by the bulles of pope Clement the third, bearing date the 5. of Iune. For the which office the bishops gaue him 1500. marks, to the great offense of the king, as he shewed afterward to cardinall Octauian that came to visit him when he arriued in the riuer of Tiber, being vp|on his iourneie towards Messina, as after may ap|peare. But in the meane time, calling togither the lords and peeres of those his dominions on that side the sea, to wit, Normandie, Britaine, Aniou, Poitou, Polydor. and Guien, he consulted with them what number of soldiors and how manie ships it should be conueni|ent for him to take with him and furnish into Alla: and herewith he did command them also to obeie Robert earle of Leicester, whome he appointed to re|maine amongst them as his lieutenant or vicege|rent of those parts during his absence.