Compare 1577 edition: 1 Matt. Westm. Matth. Paris. The cardi|nals request.¶ Here by diuerse credible writers of good credit, it should appeare, that the pope demanded to haue assig|ned vnto him out of euerie cathedrall church two pre|bends, one out of the portion belonging to the bishop, & an other out of the portion belonging to the deane and chapiter: and likewise of the abbeies, where there were seuerall portions, that is to saie, so much of the conuent as belonged to the finding of one moonke, and as much also of euerie abbats liuing as should counteruaile the same. The cardinall vsed iollie per|suasions to induce the prelats to assent to this grant, alledging that the church of Rome was run in great slander for taking of monie in dispatch of suiters causes, which arose by meanes there was no mainte|nance of liuing sufficient for the churchmen there: and therefore he added, how it was the parts of na|turall children to releeue the necessitie of their louing mother, and that except the charitable deuotion of them and other good and well disposed persons were shortlie extended, they should want necessarie main|tenance for the sustentation of their liues, which shuld be altogither an vnséemelie thing for the dignitie of the Romane church.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The clergie resorting togither to take aduise what answer they should make, at length vpon their re|solute determination,The answer of Iohn the archdeacon of Bedford. Iohn the archdeacon of Bed|ford was appointed to tell the tale for them all: who comming before the cardinall, declared boldlie vnto him, that the demand which he had proponed, touched the king especiallie, and generallie all the nobilitie of the realme, which were patrons of anie churches. He added furthermore, how the archbishops and bi|shops, and manie other of the prelats of England (si|thens the king by reason of his sickenesse could not be there) were also absent, so that they which were there present, being but as it were the inferiour part of the house, neither might nor ought to make anie resolute answer as then in this matter. Immedi|atlie herewith also came the lord Iohn Marshall, and other messengers from the king vnto all the prelats that held anie baronies of the king, streightlie com|manding them, that they should in no wise bind and indanger his laie fée vnto the church of Rome, where|by he might be depriued of his due and accustomed seruices, and so euerie man herevpon departed and went home.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This yeare, the plées of the crowne were pleaded in the tower of London. Fabian And on the sixtéenth daie of March in this tenth yeare of his reigne, the king granted by his charter insealed,A grant to the citizens of London. that the citizens of London should passe toll frée through all England, and if anie of them were constreined in anie citie, borough or towne within the realme, to paie toll, that then the shiriffes of London might attach anie man of the said citie, borough or towne, where such toll was exacted, being found within the liberties of London, and him reteine with his goods and cattels, till the citizens that paid such toll were sa [...]is [...]ied, by restitution of the same, with all costs and charges su|steined in the suit. Howbeit, about the same time, the king constreined the Londoners to giue vnto him the summe of fiue thousand marks as a fine, Matth. Paris for that they had aided and succoured his aduersarie Lewes against him, and lent to the said Lewes at his departure out of the realme a like summe. But it may rather be thought they gaue vnto the king the said fiue thousand marks for his fauour shewed in granting vnto them the aboue mentioned fréedome and liberties. At the same time, he had also twelue hundred pounds of the burgesses of Northampton, besides the fifteenth, which not onelie they, but also the Londoners, and all other generallie through the realme, paid accordinglie as it was granted.