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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The bishop of Winchester, the earle of Kent, Gil|bert Basset, Stephen Siward & others were by him accorded, who had borne secret grudge ech to other a long time, which hatred was at point to haue broken foorth,A tournie at Blie. and shewed it selfe in perilous wise at a tornie holden at Blie in the beginning of Lent, where the Southernmen stroue against the Northerne men, and in the end the Southerne men preuailed, and EEBO page image 222 tooke diuerse of their aduersaries, so that it séemed not to be a triumphant iustes, but rather a sharpe challenge and incounter betwixt enimies. But a|mongst all others,Earle Bigot. earle Bigot bare himselfe verie stoutlie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Anno Reg. 22. The legat holdeth a sy|nod at Lon|don.After that the legat had thus agréed the noblemen, he assembled a synod at London, the morrow after the octaues of S. Martin, wherein manie ordinances were newlie constituted for the state of the cleargie, but not altogither verie acceptable to diuerse yoong préests and scholers (as some write) in somuch that the legat afterwards comming to Oxford, and lodging in the abbie of Osnie,The legat co [...]meth to Oxford. it chanced as certeine scholers pressed to the gates thinking to come in and doo their dutie (as they tooke the matter) vnto the legat, the porter kept them backe, and gaue them ouerthwart words, wherevpon they rushed in vpon him, & so be|gan a fraie betwixt them and the legats men, who would haue beaten them backe.A fraie be|twixt the le|gats men, and the scholers of Oxford.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 It fortuned in this hurlie burlie, that a poore Irish scholer being got in néere to the kitchin dresser, be|sought the cooke for Gods sake to giue him some re|liefe: but the cooke (as manie of that calling are chole|rike fellowes) in a great furie tooke vp a ladle full of hot broath out of a kettell wherein flesh had béene sod|den,A cookes almes. and threw it right vpon the Irishmans face, which thing when another Welsh scholer that stood by beheld, he cried out; What meane we to suffer this villanie, and therewithall tooke an arrow, and set it in his bow, which he had caught vp in his hand at the beginning of the fraie, and drawing it vp to the head let flie at the cooke,The legats cooke slaine. and so slue him there outright.

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