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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,

—sentina malorum,
Agnorum sub pelle lupi, mercede colentes
Non pietate Deum, &c.)
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.

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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earle of Leicester with a small companie came before the castell of Pascie,The earle of Leicester. which (although the Frenchmen held it) did yet of right belong vnto the said earle. The souldiors within issued foorth, and be|ing too strong for the earle, caused him to flee, for o|therwise he had béene taken. But returning on the morrow after with more companie about him, and laieng ambushes for the enimie, he approched the said castell, and trained the Frenchmen foorth till he had them within his danger, and then causing his men to breake out vpon them tooke an eightéene knights, and a great multitude of other people.Marchades. Also Marcha|des with his rout of Brabanders did the French|men much hurt, in robbing and spoiling the coun|tries.

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