The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 215)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the same time also, Hubert earle of Kent was deposed from the office of high iustice,

The earle of Kent dischar|ged of his of|fice of cheéfe iustice.

Matth. Paris.

and Stephan Segraue appointed in his roome. The said Hubert (bicause he refused to answer a certeine dutie which was demanded of him to the kings vse) ran so farre into his displeasure, that he durst not abide his sight, but for safegard of himselfe got him to the abbeie of Merton,The earle of Kent taketh sanctuarie. and there tooke sanctuarie. The king hear|ing of this his demeanor, was so highlie offended withall, that he sent to the Londoners, willing them to go thither and fetch him to his presence. The Lon|doners, which in no wise loued him, bicause of the death of their citizen Constantine, were verie rea|die to accomplish this commandement, insomuch that where the maior ouernight late declared to them the effect of the kings commission,The citizens of London their good de|uotion to|wards the earle of Kent. there were twentie thousand of them in armor gotten forward earlie in the morning towards Merton, in full hope now to be reuenged of him, for the small good-will that he had borne vnto their citie heretofore.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But the king being informed by the earle of Che|ster and others, that if the Londoners being thus in armor, and in so great a number, should commit any other outrage by the way, the matter might grow to some such inconuenience as would not easilie be staied, he sent to them a countermand to returne backe to the citie againe, which they did, though sorie in their hearts that they might not go through with their desired enterprise. Furthermore (sée héere the mutabilitie of fortune and hir inconstancie, whereof complaint hath béene made by our forefa|thers time out of mind, saieng,

Passibus ambiguis fortuna volubilis errat,

Et manet in nullo certa tenáx loco;Ouid. lib. 2. de trist. 5.

Sed modò laeta manet, vultus modò sumit acerbos,

Et tantùm constans in leuitate sua est.)

now that the erle of Kent was thus out of the kings fauour, there were few or none of those whome he had before beene beneficiall vnto, that shewed them|selues as fréends and louers vnto him, but all for|sooke & were readie to saie the worst of him, the arch|bishop of Dubline excepted, who yet obteined of the king respit for him to make answere vnto such things as should lawfullie be obiected against him, both for the debt which should be due to the king, and also vpon points of treason, which were now laid to his charge. ¶Wherin we may see what hath béene the course of the world in former ages touching fréends, who in the spring of a mans felicitie like swallowes will flie about him; but when the winter of aduersi|tie nippeth, like snailes they keepe within their shels: wherevnto the poet verie well alluding, saith, Hor. lib. car. 1. od. 35.

—diffugiunt cadis

Cum faece siccatis amici,

Ferre iugum pariter dolosi.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this, as the said Hubert would haue gone to S. Edmundsburie in Suffolke, where his wife as then remained, he was apprehended at Burntwood in Essex, within a chappell there (as saith Fabian. Matth. Paris. ) But (as Matthew Paris saith) sir Robert de Crane|combe, with thrée hundred armed men was sent to apprehend him by the kings commandement, and so he was taken in a village belonging to the bishop of Norwich in Essex, and by the kings commande|ment cast into prison, but yet afterwards he was re|conciled to the kings fauor, when he had lien foure moneths in prison, and thirtéene moneths banished the court.