Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 182At length notwithstanding that deuise tooke no place: for it was otherwise decréed by the pope, that the king should restore to them the summe of fortie thousand marks, [...] of the which he had paid alreadie twelue thousand, before the returne of the said arch|bishop and bishops into the realme, and fifteene thou|sand more at the late meeting had betwixt them at Reading, so that there remained onelie 13000 be|hind: for not onelie the king, but also the cardinall had sent to the pope, requiring him to take direction in the matter, and to aduertise him, that there was a great fault in the archbishop and his fellowes. In so much that Pandulph which was sent to him from the legat,King Iohn commended to the pope for an hum|ble prince. declared in fauour of the king, that there was not a more humble and modest prince to be found than king Iohn, and that the archbishop and his fel|lowes were too hard, and shewed themselues too co|uetous in requiring the restitution that should be made to them for losses susteined in time of the in|terdiction.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now the cause wherefore the legat and the king did send vnto the pope, was this. There was some grudge betwixt the legat and the archbishop, for that where the pope had written to the legat, how he should (according to the order of the ancient canons of the church) place in euerie bishops sée and abbeie (that was void) méet and able persons to rule and guide the same, Matth. Paris. The presum|ption of the cardinall. the legat presuming on that autho|ritie granted him by the pope, without the aduise of the archbishop or other bishops, tooke onelie with him certeine of the kings chapleins, and comming with them to such churches as were vacant, ordeined in them such persons as were nothing méet to take such charge vpon them, and that according to the old abuse of England, as Matthew Paris saith. Where|vpon the archbishop of Canturburie repining at such dooings, sent to the legat as then being at Burton vpon Trent,Burton vpon Trent. Dunstable. A synod. Discord be|twixt the car|dinall and the archbishop of Canturburie. two of his chapleins from Dunstable (where he and his suffragans held as then a synod, after the feast of the Epiphanie) commanding him by waie of appeale, in no wise to meddle with institu|ting any gouernours to churches, within the precinct of his iurisdiction, where such institutions belonged onelie to him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Herevpon therefore the legat dispatched Pandulph to Rome vnto the pope as is aforesaid, and the king likewise sent ambassadors thither, as the bishop of Norwich, and the archdeacon of Northumberland, with others, the which in the end so behaued them|selues in their suit, that notwithstanding Simon Langton the archbishops brother earnestlie with|stood them, as proctor for the bishops, yet at length, the pope tooke order in the matter, writing vnto his le|gat, that he should sée the same fulfilled, and then ab|solue the realme of the former interdiction. In this meane time, king Iohn made prouision to go ouer into France (as after yee shall heare) but at his go|ing ouer he committed the whole ordering of this matter vnto the legat, and to William Marshall the earle of Penbroke. The legat therefore vpon the re|ceipt of the popes bulles, called a councell at Lon|don, and there declaring what was conteined in the same, he tooke hands for paiment of the residue of the fortie thousand marks which was behind, being 13000 onelie, as before I haue said.