6.1. The lord chancellours letters to the shiriffe of Kent.
The lord chancellours letters to the shiriffe of Kent.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 _PRaecipimus tibi quòd si Eb [...]racen. electus ad a|liquem portum in balliua tua applicuerit, aut aliquis nunci [...]rum eius, eum retineri fa [...]ias, do|nec mandatum nostrum indè receperis. Et simi|liter praecipimus, quòd omnes literas papae aut magni alicuius viri quae illic venerint, facias retineri. The English wher|of is thus.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 We command you that if the elect of Yorke shall arriue at any port or hauen within your bailiwicke, or any messenger of his, that you cause them to be a|rested and kept, till you haue commandement from vs therein. And we command you likewise, to stay, attach, and keepe all letters that come from the pope, or any other great man.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Likewise, Polydor. The death of the archbi [...]hop of Cantur [...]|rie. Io. Textor. whereas Baldwine archbishop of Can|turburie, hauing taken his iournie into the holie land, and arriuing there before the king, chanced to depart this life at Tyrus, the last yeere, vpon the feast daie of S. Edmund, the chancellour found meanes to keepe that sée also vacant, that he might receiue the profits thereof, during the vacation, and find meanes to be prepared to it in the end. But as touch|ing the sée of Yorke, although he had (as before is said) made his hand of the reuenues belonging to the same from time to time at his pleasure, yet now af|ter that he heard how Geffrey had receiued the pall, he made hauocke, wasting & spoiling all that would yeeld him anie monie, without respect of right or wrong. Moreouer, he caused the hauens to be watch|ed, with commandement giuen to the townes on the sea coast, that they should not suffer the archbishop Geffrey to take land.The arc [...]bi|shop arriued and is com|mitted to+ward. At length yet he arriued at Douer, where he was by the foresaid Matthew de Clere first staied, and after taken out of the abbeie by the chancellours commandement, and commit|ted to prison within the castell, where a Noble man EEBO page image 131 that had maried the chancellors sister was capteine.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The newes of whose imprisonment was anon bruted thorough the realme, wherewith the Nobles fretted, and the commons curssed: finallie all men detested such tyrannie in the chancellour. But name|lie the kings brother earle Iohn stormed at the mat|ter, and with all spéed assembled an armie out of those places where he bare rule, increasing the num|ber with a power of Welshmeir. There came to him the bishop of Winchester, with manie earles and barons, also the bishop of Bath and Chester, which latelie before had béene chéefe fauourers of the chan|cellour in all his dooings: but now that the world was changed, they shewed themselues the most ear|nest enimies he had, as well in words as déeds.