Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 They also declared to him, what articles it should be good for him to propone vnto the pope, if he would haue him to continue in bearing the charges of the wars against Manfred. But when those articles were afterwards presented to the pope, he allowed them not, & so the matter remained without any certeine assurance of the promises, which had béene and still were from time to time made to set the king on do|tage. The archbishop of Yorke had his crosse taken from him by the popes commandement,The archbi|shop of Yorke depriued of his crosse. but the arch|bishop would not yet bow his knée vnto Baall, to be|stow the benefices of his church vpon aliens, and such as were vnworthie persons, as it had beene to cast pearles vnto swine. ¶ There came from the pope as his Nuncio,Mansuetus the popes Nuncio. vnto king Henrie, a frier minor named Mansuetus, furnished with great power and authoritie, in somuch that he tooke vpon him to ab|solue men for changing their vowes, and to iustifie those that were excõmunicated persons, false periu|red, and such like. Wherevpon, manie of euill disposi|tion presumed to offend: for easinesse to purchase par|don bred boldnesse in manie, howbeit the wise sée|med to laugh at such dooings.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The parlement still continued, till the sundaie af|ter the Ascension day, with hard hold betwixt the king and the lords, who laid it fore to his charge, that EEBO page image 258 he had not performed the promises which he made touching the obseruing of the liberties conteined in the great charter. They also complained greatlie of his misgouernance, in that he so much aduanced the Poictouins and other strangers, to the impouerish|ment of himselfe and the whole realme, and further, mainteined them so far foorth, that they were readie to offer wrong vnto other, vpon presumption of his fauour and bearing with them, he hauing by com|mandement restreined that no processe should passe out of the chancerie against certeine of them that were his coosins, as the earle of Penbroke and others. Finallie, when the lords were in doubt which way to worke for their owne safeties,The parlemẽt proroged. they caused the parle|ment to be proroged, till the feast of saint Barnabe, then to begin againe at Oxford. In the meane time the lords of the realme, as the earles of Glocester, Leicester, Hereford and Northfolke, with other, did confederate themselues togither, bicause they stood in feare to be intrapped by the kings subtill sleights, and by the craftie wiles of those strangers whom he retained against them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the same yeare by the wind, which continuallie certeine months togither kept northerlie, the flours, with other growing things, were so hindered, that scarselie they appeared to anie purpose,A late growth till the most part of Iune was past, wherevpon the hope of recei|uing the fruits of the earth was quite taken away,I dearth ac|companied with a death. & so vpon the great dearth that happened, a sore death and mortalitie followed, for want of necessarie food to susteine the pining bodies of the poore people. They died so thicke, that there were great pits made in churchyards to laie the dead bodies in one vpon an other.