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Compare 1577 edition: 1 At length the king receiued aduertisement from his mother queene Elianor of his demeanor, and that there was great likeliehood of some commotion to insue, if spéedie remedie were not in time proui|ded. Wherevpon being then in Sicile,Walter the archbishop of Rouen sent into England he sent Wal|ter the archbishop of Rouen into England with commission, to ioine in administration of the king|dome with his chancellor the said bishop of Elie. But the archbishop comming into England was so slen|derlie interteined of the chancellour, and in effect so lit [...]e regarded, that notwithstanding his commission and instructions brought from the king,He is little re|garded of the lord chancel|lor. he could not be permitted to [...] any rule. But the chancellour deteinin [...] the same who [...]e in his h [...]ds, ordered all things at his pleasure, without [...] the archbish. [...] Rouen, or any other of counsell with him, except such a [...] it pleased him to [...] for the seruing of his owne turne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ He certeinlie beléeued (as ma [...]e other [...]) that king Richard would neuer returne with life into England againe, which caused him to attempt so manie vnlawfull [...]nterprises, and therefore he got in|to his hands all the castels and fortresses belonging to the crowne, and furnished them with garisons of souldiers, as he thought necessarie, depriuing such capteins of their roomes as he suspected not [...]o fauour his procéedings.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 One Gerard de Camuille had bought of the king the kéeping of the castell of Lincolne, vnto whom al|so the shiriffewike of the shire was committed for a time, but the lord chancellour, perceiuing that he bare more good will vnto earle Iohn the kings brother than to him (which Iohn he most suspected) he tooke from him the shiriffewike, & demanded also to haue the castell of Lincolne deliuered into his hands, which Gerard refused to deliuer, and perceiuing that the chancellor would practise to haue it by force, he fled vnto earle Iohn, requiring him of competent aid and succour.

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