Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the octaues of the said Purification, the parle|ment began at London,A parlement. to the which came the earle of Leicester from the parts of beyond the sea, where he had for a certeine time remained. There came also an ambassador from the French king, one that was deane of Burges, and so there was an earnest trea|tie had touching a peace to be concluded betwixt the two kings of England and France, which on the day of saint Ualentine was accorded and put in articles, with condition that the same should remaine firme and stable,A peace con|cluded vpon betwixt the kinges of Eng+land & France if the kings would assent to that which had beene talked of and agreed vpon by their speciall and solemne agents. For the further perfecting of this agreement and finall peace betwixt the kings of England and France about the begining of Aprill, the earls of Glocester and Leicester, Iohn Mansell, Peter de Sauoy, and Robert Ualerane were sent ouer into France, hauing also with them letters of credence, to conclude in all matters as had béene tal|ked of by their agents. But when the countesse of Leicester would not consent to quite claime and re|lease hir right in such parcels of Normandie as be|longed to hir,The countesse of Leicester. which king Henrie had couenanted with the residue to resigne vnto the French king. The earle of Glocester fell at words with the earle of Lei|cester,Contention betwixt the earles of Glo|cester and Leicester. about the stubborne demeanor which his wife shewed in that matter, and so by reason that either of them stood at defiance with the other (although by meane of freends they staied from further inconue|nience) they returned backe without concluding any thing in that whereabout they were sent.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time there was a certeine man|sion house by waie of deuotion giuen vnto the friers that are called preachers within the towne of Dun|stable,The friers preachers be|gin to inhabit at Dunstable. so that certeine of them thrusting themselues in there, began to inhabit in that place, to the great annoiance of the prior and conuent of Dunstable, & as it were by the example of the other order called minors (which in the last precéeding yeare, at saint Edmundsburie in Suffolke had practised the like matter against the willes of the abbat and conuent there) they began to build verie sumptuous houses, so that in the eies of the beholders such chargeable workes of building, so suddenlie aduanced by them that professed voluntarie pouertie, caused no small woonder. The said friers building them a church with all spéed, and setting vp an altar, immediatlie be|gan to celebrate diuine seruice, not once staieng for the purchase of anie licence. And so building from day to day, they obteined great aid of such as inhabi|ted neere vnto them, of whome the prior and conuent ought to haue receiued the reuenues that were now conuerted to be imploied on the said friers towards their maintenance. Thus by how much more their house increased,The moonks hindred by the the comming of the friers. by so much more did the prior and conuent decrease in substance and possessions: for the rents which they were accustomed to receiue of the messuages and houses giuen to the friers, were lost, and likewise the offerings (which were woont to come to their hands) now these friers being newlie entred by occasion of their preachings, vsurped to themselues.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Richard Graie constable of the castell of Douer, and lord warden of the cinque ports was this yeare remooued by the lord chéefe iustice Hugh Bigod,Richard Gray dischar|ged of his office of lord warden. Walascho a frier sent from the pope. who tooke into his owne hands the custodie of the said ca|stell and ports. The cause whie the said Richard Graie was discharged, we find to haue fallen out by this means. He suffered a frier minor called Walascho, comming from the pope (bicause he had the kings letters vnder the great seale) to enter the land, not staieng him, nor warning the lords of his comming, contrarie (as it was interpreted) vnto the articles of their prouisions enacted at Oxenford. This frier in|deed was sent from the pope to haue restored Athil|marus or Odomarus (as some write him) the kings halfe brother, vnto the possessions of the bishoprike of Winchester, to the which he had béene long before elected. But the lords were so bent against him, that vpon such suggestions as they laid foorth, Walascho refrained from dooing that which he had in comman|dement, and returned to make report what he vnder|stood, so that Odomarus was now as farre from his purpose as before.