Compare 1577 edition: 1 This forbearance from warre was concluded and taken in the yeare 1199 after the incarnation, and tenth of king Richards reigne. But immediatlie af|ter, there arose matter of new displeasure betwixt these two kings to kéepe their minds in vre with se|cret grudges, though by reason of the truce they out|wardlie absteined from declaring it by force of armes.Contention about the choo|sing of the em|perour. It chanced that in the election of a new em|perour, the electors could not agrée, one part of them choosing Otho duke of Saxonie, nephue to king Ri|chard by his sister Maud, and another part of them naming Philip duke of Tuscaine, and brother to the last emperour Henrie.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 King Richard (as reason was) did procure what fa|uour he could to the furtherance of his nephue Otho: and king Philip on the contrarie part, did what he could in fauour of the foresaid Philip. At length O|tho was admitted by the pope to end the strife: but yet the grudge remained in the harts of the two kings; Philip finding himselfe much greeued in that he had missed his purpose, and Richard being as lit|tle pleased, for that he had woone his so hardlie, and with so much adoo. And thus matters passed for that yeare.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 R. Houed. The popes letters to the king for the church of Lameth.In the beginning of the next, the popes Nuncio came with letters, not onlie to the archbishop and bi|shops of England, but also to the king himselfe, sig|nifieng the popes resolute decree touching the church and colledge of Lameth to be broken downe and sup|pressed. Wherevpon the king and archbishop (though sore against their willes) when they saw no waie lon|ger to shift off the matter, yéelded to the popes plea|sure: and so the archbishop sent his letters to La|meth, where the 21 daie of Ianuarie they were read, and the 27 daie of the same moneth was the church cast downe, & the canons which were alreadie there placed, had commandement to depart from thence without further delaie. Thus the moonks in despite of the king and archbishop had their willes, but yet their vexation ceassed not,The moonks borne out by the pope. for the king and archbi|shop bearing them no small euill will, for that they had so obteined their purpose contrarie to their minds and intents, molested them diuerse waies, al|though the moonks still vpon complaint to the pope, were verie much releeued, and found great freend|ship both with him and likewise with his court. ¶ So that it may be obserued that these dishclouts of the popes kitchen haue in all ages, since their first quickening béene troublesome and mutinous, saw|cie and insolent, proud and malapert. But
Proh pudor! hos tolerare potest ecclesia porcos,M. Pal. in suo sag.Cùm sint lasciui nimiùm, nimiúm superbi,Duntaxàt ventri, veneri somnó vacantes?