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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the feast of the assumption of our ladie, Tho|mas earle of Flanders, vncle to the quéene, arriued at Douer, and was receiued of the king with great ioy and gladnesse, who rode thitherward to méet him, and so brought him to London, where the citizens came foorth also, and meeting him in the waie, brought him into the citie with all honour that might be deui|sed. He did homage to the king (as authors write) and at his departure had in reward fiue hundred marks, and a pension assured him of as much yearelie out of the escheker of the kings frée gift. This earle Tho|mas was sonne to the earle of Sauoy, and a little be|fore his comming into England, he had married Ione countesse of Flanders, which had first beene coupled in marriage with Ferdinando, as in the life of king Iohn may further appeare.