Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The same time, to wit, about the feast of saint Mi|chaell,A cardinall sent into En|gland. came Nicholas the cardinall of Tusculane in|to England, sent from the pope, to take awaie the in|terdiction, if the king would stand to that agreement which he had made and promised by his oth to per|forme. King Iohn receiued this cardinall in most ho|norable wise, and gladlie heard him in all things that he had to saie. This legat at his comming to Westminster, deposed the abbat of that place, na|med William from his roome, for that he was accu|sed both of wasting the reuenues of the house, and al|so of notable incontinencie. Moreouer the burgesses of the towne of Oxford came vnto him to obteine absolution of their offense,The burges|ses of Oxford require abso|lution. in that through their pre|sumption, the thrée schollers (of whom ye haue heard before) were hanged there, to the great terror of all the residue. To be short, they were absolued and pe|nance inioined them, that they should strip them out of their apparell at euerie church in the towne, and going barefooted with scourges in their hands, they should require the benefit of absolution of eue|rie parish preest within their towne, saieng the psalme of Miserere.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this, the said cardinall called a councell or conuocation of the cleargie,A cõuocation called by the cardinall. to reforme such things touching the state of the church as should be thought requisite. And though he handled not this matter with such fauour and vprightnesse as the bishops wi|shed on their behalfes, yet he caused king Iohn to re|store the most part of all those goods that remained vnspent, and also the value of halfe of those that were consumed and made awaie, vnto those persons as well spirituall as temporall, from whom they had béene taken in time of the discord betwixt him and the pope. But before all things could be thus quie|ted and set in order betwixt the king and the bishops, manie méetings were had, as at London, Reading, Wallingford, and in other places.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now the archbishop and prelates for their parts thought this recompense to be but small, in respect of the great losses and hinderances which they had su|steined: and to haue the whole restitution delaied, they tooke it not well. Howbeit the cardinall leaned so to the kings side (hauing receiued of him to the popes vse the charter of subiection of the realmes of England and Ireland, now bulled with gold, where at the first it was deliuered to Pandulph sealed one|lie with wax. But their suit came to little effect, and in the end it fell out in such wise, that their com|plaint was lesse regarded. Moreouer, the rating of the value which the king should restore vnto the arch|bishop, and the other bishops, was by agréement of the king and them togither, appointed vnto foure ba|rons indifferentlie chosen betwixt them.