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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Anno Reg. 19. 1235These things being thus brought to passe, and all troubles quieted, the king as then being at London, there was brought before him by one Tolie, Polydor. Fabian. a com|plaint exhibited against the Sée the like in pag. 56. col. 1. Iewes of Norwich, which had stolen a yoong child, being not past a twelue moneths old, and secretlie kept him an whole yeare togither, to the end that he might (when Ester came) crucifie him in despite of our sauiour Iesus Christ, and the christian religion. The matter as it happened fell out well for the lad: for within a few daies before that those curssed murtherers purposed to haue shed this innocents bloud, they were accused, conuicted and punished, whereby he escaped their cruell hands. About the same time, Matth. Paris. to wit the seauenth of Februa|rie died Hugh de Wels bishop of Lincolne, a great enimie to moonks and religious men. Robert Gro|sted was then preferred to his roome, a man of great learning, and trained vp in schooles euen from his infancie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The emperor Frederike marieth the king of Eng|lands sister.The same yeare, the emperour Frederike the se|cond, maried the ladie Isabell the kings sister. This Isabell was a most beautifull ladie, of comelie per|sonage, and of age about one and twentie years. She was affianced by procuracie, about the seauen and twentith of Februarie. And after Easter, the archbi|shop of Cullen, and the duke of Louane came ouer from the emperour, to haue the conueiance of hir vn|to the emperors presence.A great and sumptuous feast. There was such a feast hol|den, so sumptuous seruice, so rich furniture, and roi|all banketting kept the day before hir departure from London towards the sea side, that more could not be imagined. The same feast was kept at West|minster on the fift day of May, and the day follow|ing she did set forward, and by easie iournies came to Sandwich, the king bringing hir thither with thrée thousand horsses. Finallie, she tooke the sea the ele|uenth of May, the king taking leaue of hir not with|out teares, when they thus departed the one from the other. And so with prosperous wind and weather shée arriued at Antwerpe, and from thence passed for|ward, till shée came to hir husband the emperour, by whom shée was receiued with great ioy and comfort at Worms, where the marriage was consummate vpon a sundaie, being the two and twentith day of Iulie, or (as Matthew Westminster saith) the seauen and twentith of May, being Whitsunday.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare the bishop of London pronounced the sentence of excommunication against certeine vsu|rers called Caorsini. But bicause the same vsurers shadowed themselues vnder the pretext of the popes merchants (as they named themselues) they preuai|led so much by the fauour of the court of Rome, Matth. Paris. Usurers cal|led Caorsini, of whome sée more in pag. 211. col. 1. that the said bishop being sicke and feeble, was cited per|emptorilie in the parts beyond the seas, before iud|ges chosen foorth by the same vsurers, to make an|swer for such high iniurie as he had here doone to the popes factors. The bishop willing by the example of [...]em, rather to couer his fathers shame, than to re|ueale it to the whole world, did quietlie put vp the matter: and with commendable patience receiued the proffered wrong, hauing learned this lesson, that

Gaudet patientia duris,
and to pacifie the trouble, suffered their wickednesse, commending in the meane while the cause vnto his patrone S. Paule. And when he preached of the force of faith, he vttered this saieng:The bishop of London his doctrine. If an angell preach contrarie doctrine to vs in these things, let him be accurssed.

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