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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?

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this meane time, king Richard being now at rest from troubles of warre, studied busilie to pro|uide monie, meaning to make a new voiage into the holie land.A tax. Fiue shillings of euerie plough land, as saith Matt. Westm. Therefore finding himselfe bare of treasure, by reason the French warres had emptied his cofers, he set a great tax vpon his subiects, and by that meanes, hauing recouered a great summe, he builded that notable strong castell in Normandie, vpon the banke of the riuer of Saine,Chasteau Ga|liard built. named Cha|teau Galiard: which when it was finished, he fell a iesting thereat and said;

Behold, is not this a faire daughter of one yeares growth.
The soile where this castell was builded, belonged to the archbishop of Rouen, for which there followed great strife betwixt the king and the archbishop, till the pope tooke vp the matter (as before ye haue heard.)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this, he determined to chastise certeine per|sons in Poictou, which during the warres betwixt him and the French king, had aided the Frenchmen against him: wherevpon with an armie he passed foorth towards them, but by the waie he was infor|med, that one Widomer a vicount in the countrie of Britaine, had found great treasure:

Images of an emperour and of his wife & children all of fine gold.

The annales of Aquitaine.

and there|fore pretending a right thereto by vertue of his pre|rogatiue, he sent for the vicount, who smelling out the matter, and supposing the king would not be in|different in parting the treasure, fled into Limosin, where although the people were tributaries to the king of England, yet they tooke part with the French king.

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