Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The archbishop at the first trusted to be borne out by the king (who was highlie offended with the moonks for their presumptuous dealing) and therfore refused to obeie the popes commandement. The king in deed stomached the matter so highlie, that he sent letters vnto the moonks by no worsse messengers than by Geffrey Fitz Peter, and Hugh Fitz Bar|dolfe his iustices, signifieng to them not onelie his high displeasure for their presumptuous proceedings in their suit without his consent, but also command|ing them to surceasse, and not to procéed further in the matter by vertue of any such the popes letters, which they had purchased contrarie to the honour and dignitie of his crowne and realme. Moreouer, he wrote to the bishops, commanding them to appeale; and to the archbishop, forbidding him in any wise to breake downe the church which he had so builded at Lameth.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The presum|tuous stout|nesse of the moonks.The shiriffe of Kent also was commanded to seize into his hands all the tenements and possessions that belonged to the moonks (a frie of satan, and as one saith verie well of them and the like leuen of lewd|nesse,
who neuerthelesse were so stout in that quarell, that they would not prolong one daie of the time appoin|ted by the pope for the racing of that church. Herevp|on the king for his part and the bishops in their owne behalfes wrote to the pope. Likewise the abbats of Boreley, Fourd, Stratford, Roberts-bridge, Stan|leie, and Basing Warke, wrote the matter to him: and againe the pope and the cardinals wrote to the king, to the archbishops, and bishops: and so letters passed to and fro, till at length the pope sent a Nun|cio of purpose, to signifie his full determination, as in the next yeare it shall be shewed at full.—sentina malorum,Agnorum sub pelle lupi, mercede colentesNon pietate Deum, &c.)
Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time Geffrey Fitz Peter,Welshmen vanquished. Ger. Dor. as|cribeth this victorie vnto Hubert arch [...]. of Canturbu|rie and saith there were slaine about 500 of the enimies. Mauds castle lord cheefe iustice of England, raised a power of men, and went into Wales to succour the tenants of Willi|am de Brause, which were besieged of the king, or ra|ther prince of that countrie, named Owen, the bro|ther of Cadwalaine, in Mauds castell: but the lord chéefe iustice comming to the reskue of them within, gaue battell to the aduersaries, and vanquishing them, slue three thousand of them, and seauen hundred of those that were taken prisoners and wounded. And all the while the warres continued in France, the losse for the most part still redounded to the Frenchmen. Earle Iohn burnt Newburg, and tooke eighteene knights of such as were sent to the re|skue.