Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 To conclude, through threatning of excommuni|cation to be pronounced against the king, and other for this fact by the legat and the bishops of the realme as namelie, Canturburie and London, the king was compelled to release and set at libertie the fore|said Ranulfe. Finallie, the prisoner that had accused the said Ranulfe and other, being one of the kings purseuants, when for his wicked dooings he came to suffer death, openlie confessed, how he had accused those persons, onelie in hope to deferre his owne exe|cution, EEBO page image 224 being conuicted as accessarie to the treason of the clearke that suffered at Couentrie the last yeare. He had accused not onelie the said Briton, but diuers of the nobilitie also to be priuie and giltie of the same conspiracie. ¶ This yeare for the space of foure mo|neths togither,Great raine. fell excéeding great raine, yet at length it began to hold vp about Easter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this while, the lords of the realme practised sun|drie drifts likewise, as men that would faine haue béene rid of the legats companie: but the king did what he could on the otherside (by sending to the pope for licence) to haue him remaine still here, who be|gan now indeed to looke to his owne profit,The legat beginneth to looke to his owne cõmo|ditie. as by way of procuracies and other meanes, so that he got togi|ther great summes of monie, although in the begin|ning he séemed to forbeare, and not to séeke for anie such gaine. Also, he tooke vpon him to bestow bene|fices without consent of the patrones that were tem|porall men, wherevpon complaint was made to the pope,Sir Robert de Twing. namelie, by one sir Robert de Twing, who clai|med as patrone the presentation of the rectorie of Luthun in Yorkeshire, and could not be permitted to inioy it, by reason of the popes prohibition, but vpon the hearing of his title in the popes consistorie, he ob|teined letters [...]om the pope to be restored, and also an inhibition, that from thence foorth no person should be promoted to anie spirituall benefice or church, with|out consent of the patrone. The king and the péeres of the realme vnderstanding themselues to be touched in this wrong offered to this knight, had written in his fauour to the pope, so that his suit had the better successe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, the Iewes in this yeare, for a murther which they had secretlie committed, were gréeuouslie punished,The Iewes punished by the pursse. namelie by the pursse to buy their peace, & they were glad to giue the king the third part of all their goods. The legat also assembled a synod of the clergie at London vpon the last of Iulie,A synod hol|den at Lon|don. in the which he demanded procuracies, but the bishops vpon deli|beration had in the matter, answered, that the im|portunatnes of the Romane church had so often con|sumed the goods of the English church, that they could no longer suffer it, and therefore said they;

Let them giue you procuracies which vnaduisedlie haue called you into the realme, if they will, for of vs you shall be sure to come by none at all, howbeit he got his de|mand of the abbats and other religious men.