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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king herevpon sent his letters patents vnto the shiriffes of all the counties of this realme, com|manding them to see the ordinances and liberties which he granted and confirmed, to be diligentlie ob|serued. And for the more strengthening of this his grant, he had gotten the pope to confirme a like char|ter granted the yeare before. For the pope (sith king Iohn was become his obedient vassall, and the apo|stolike king) easilie granted to gratifie both him and his lords herein, and so was the grant of the liber|ties corroborated & made good with a double confir|mation, and so sealed, that it was impossible for them to be separated in sunder, the kings grant being an|nexed to the popes bull.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Immediatlie also vpon the confirmation now made by the king, diuerse lords came to him, and re|quired restitution of such possessions, lands, and hou|ses, as he had in his hands the right whereof (as they alledged) apperteined to them: but he excused the matter, and shifted them off, till by inquest taken, it might appeare what right euerie man had to those things which they then claimed: and furthermore as|signed them a daie to be holden at Westminster, which was the sixtéenth day of Iulie. But yer he restored at that time the castell of Rochester vnto the archbishop of Canturburie, the barons hauing obteined a great peece of their purpose (as they thought) returned to London with their charter sea|led, the date whereof was this:Rochester c [...]|stell restored to the archb. [...] Canturburie. Giuen by our owne hand, in the medow called Kuningsmede or Rime|mede, betwixt Stanes and Windsore, the fifteenth of Iune, in the eighteenth yeare of our reigne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Great reioising was made for this conclusion of peace betwixt the king and his barons, the people iudging that God had touched the kings heart, Matt. Paris. and mollified it, whereby happie daies were come for the realme of England, as though it had béene deliuered out of the bondage of Aegypt: but they were much deceiued,The kings impatiencie [...] sée himselfe brideled by [...] subiects. for the king hauing condescended to make such grant of liberties, farre contrarie to his mind was right sorowfull in his heart, curssed his mother that bare him, the houre that he was borne, and the paps that gaue him sucke, wishing that he had re|ceiued death by violence of sword or knife, in stéed of naturall norishment: he whetted his teeth, he did bite now on one staffe, and now on an other as he wal|ked, and oft brake the same in péeces when he had doone, and with such disordered behauiour and furious gestures he vttered his gréefe, in such sort that the Noble men verie well perceiued the inclination of his inward affection concerning these things, before the breaking vp of the councell, and therefore sore la|mented the state of the realme, gessing what would follow of his impatiencie and displesant taking of the matter.

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