Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In [...] of [...], or [...] as [...] writers haue. Sée M. Fox, [...] first, pag. 331. There was in this season an heremit, whose name was Peter, dwelling about Yorke, a man in great reputation with the common people, bicause that ei|ther inspired with some spirit of prophesie as the peo|ple beleeued or else hauing some notable skill in art magike, he was accustomed to tell what should fol|low after. And for so much as oftentimes his saiengs prooued true, great credit was giuen to him as to a verie prophet: which was no good consequence that therefore his predictions comprised vndoubted e|uents. Naie rather, sith in this pseudoprophet or false foreteller of afterclaps, these necessarie concurrents (namelie,
were wanting, and that he was contrarilie qualified to that which this heptastichon comprehendeth, neces|sarilie it foloweth, that he was not as he was taken, but rather a deluder of the people, and an instrument of satan raised vp for the inlargement of his king|dome; as the sequele of this discourse importeth. This Peter about the first of Ianuarie last past, had told the king, that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe, that he should be cast out of his king|dome. And (whether, to the intent that his words should be the better beléeued, or whether vpon too much trust of his owne cunning) he offered himselfe to suffer death for it, if his prophesie prooued not true. Herevpon being committed to prison within the ca|stell of Corf, when the day by him prefixed came, without any other notable damage vnto king Iohn, he was by the kings commandement drawne from the said castell,The heremit and his sonne hanged. vnto the towne of Warham, & there hanged, togither with his sonne.si sensus at effectus compresserit omnes,Si spernens prorsiss mortalia gaudia, seseAbdicet a cur [...]s terrenis, assiduòConetur studio ad superos extollere mentem,Tunc etenim sapiens fiet, poterít futuraCer [...]ere, vel vigilant vel s [...]mno oppressus inerti,Hoc pacto cecinêre olim ventura prophetae)
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The people much blamed king Iohn, for this ex|treame dealing, bicause that the heremit was suppo|sed to be a man of great vertue, and his sonne no|thing guiltie of the offense committed by his father (if any were) against the king. Moreouer, some thought, that he had much wrong to die, bicause the matter fell out euen as he had prophesied: for the day before the Ascension day, king Iohn had resig|ned the superioritie of his kingdome (as they tooke the matter) vnto the pope, and had doone to him ho|mage, so that he was no absolute king indeed, as au|thors affirme. One cause, and that not the least which mooued king Iohn the sooner to agree with the pope, rose through the words of the said heremit, that did put such a feare of some great mishap in his hart, which should grow through the disloialtie of his peo|ple, that it made him yéeld the sooner. But to the mat|ter againe.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Iohn (after his capteins in Flanders had sped so well as before yee haue heard) prepared to make a voiage into Guien, not much regarding the matter, in that the realme stood as yet interdicted. But when he vnderstood by his lords, that they would not go with him except the interdicting might first be released, and he clearlie absolued of the popes cursse, to the end that Gods wrath and the popes being ful|lie pacified towards him, he might with better speed mooue and mainteine the warres, he was constrei|ned to change his purpose, and so comming to Win|chester, dispatched foorth a messenger with letters, sig|ned with the hands of foure and twentie earles and barons, to the archbishop of Canturburie,King Iohn writeth to the archbi [...]hop & the other bi|shops to re|turne. and the bi|shops of London, Lincolne, and Hereford, as then so|iourning in France, requiring them with all the o|ther banished men to returne into England, promi|sing them by his letters patents, not onelie a sure safeconduct for their comming ouer, but that he would also forget all passed displeasures, and franke|lie restore vnto euerie man all that by his means had beene wrongfullie taken from them, and as yet by him deteined.