Compare 1577 edition: 1 Ralfe Neuill elected arch. of Canturburie. After the deceasse of this archbishop Richard, the moonks elected Ralfe Neuill bishop of Chichester the kings chancellor, an vpright man, and of iust dea|ling in all his dooings. In whome also it is to be no|ted, he would not giue one halfepenie to the moonks towards the bearing of their charges in their iour|nie to Rome, which they should take vpon them from thence to fetch his confirmation, according to the manner, least he should burthen his conscience with the crime of simonie which he greatlie abhorred, al|though some imputed this to proceed rather of a clo|ked spice of couetousnesse. Which practise of his ma|keth greatlie to the confounding of the indirect means now vsed to aspire vnto promotions, for the obteinment whereof no remedie is forborne; no, though the same be repugnant to reason, and vtterlie against conscience and honestie. But this is the tem|ptation of auarice and ambition, which poison the minds of men in such sort, that rather than they will want their wished aduancement, they will vse these meanes that may further them most, namelie, fréendship, monie, and mightie mens countenance; which one no [...]eth verie well in a distichon of neat de|uise, saieng,
But to the purpose from whence we are digressed. When the moonks came to the popes presenc [...], vp|on inquirie made,Simõ Lang|tons report of the conditi|ons of Ralfe Neuill. and chéefelie by report of Simon Langton, who (as some thinke) gaped for the dignitie he vnderstood that the said Ralfe Neuill should be a man vnlearned, a courtier, hastie and short of word, and that which most displeased the pope, it was to be feared, that if he should be preferred to that roome, he would go about to deliuer the realme of England from the thraldome of the pope, and the court of Rome (into the which being made tributorie by king Iohn it had latelie beene brought) that (as he should alledge) it might serue God and holie church in the old accustomed libertie.Artis, honestatis, recti, praecepta, decus, vim,Conculcat, superant, spernunt, fauor, aera, potentes,
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1 To bring this
to passe (hauing the king thereto greatlie inclined, and all the realme readie to assist him in the same) he
would not sticke to put his life in ieopardie, namelie vpon confidence of the right and app [...]alos of Stephan the late archbishop of Cantur|burie, made in solemne wise before the altar of S. Paule
in the cathedrall church of London,
Sée before in pag. 177, & 178. The pope ma|keth void the election.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the pope had heard this tale told, he streit disanulled the election and reques [...] of the confirmati|on of the said Ralfe Neuill, granting libertie to the moonks to chose some other which might proue a whol|some shéepheard for the soule of man, profitable to the church of England, and a faithfull sonne to the sée of Rome, and so the moonks returning home, made relation to the couent how they had sped. After this, the moonks elected the prior of their house na|med Iohn to be their archbishop, who going to Rome for his confirmation, was persuaded in the end to re|nounce his election: so that at length one Edmund that was treasurer of the colledge of Salisburie, was elected, confirmed, and consecrated, a man of great zeale, being the foure & fortith archbishop that had gouerned that sée.