Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king vnderstanding into what hatred of his people by this meanes he was fallen, and therfo [...]e de|s [...]rous to auoid ciuill dissention and war that might thereby insue, he left off his [...] practise: so that the thing which generallie should haue touched and béene hurtfull to all men, was now suddenlie staied by the manhood and couragious stoutnesse onelie of one man, the foresaid earle, who in his rare act of de|fending cõmon equitie against the mightie in autho|ritie (who spared not to offer extreme iniurie) shewed himselfe a verie true and naturall branch of nobilitie,

—cupit quae grandia semper,

Vilia contemnit, quae sursum tendere vt ignis

Nititur, & summas penetrat velut ardea [...]ibes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The archbishop of Canturburie held an other sy|nod at Lambeth,A synod at Lambeth. in the which he receiued and confir|med the orders and constitutions decréed and establi|shed by the legats Otho and Othobone, in councels by them kept here within this realme, adding diuerse other of his owne: & in the same councell he went a|bout to adnihilate certeine liberties belonging to the crowne, as the taking knowledge of the right of pa|tronages and the kings prohibitions In placitis de ca|tallis, and such like, which séemed méerlie to touch the spiritualtie. But the king by some in that councell withstood the archbishop openlie, and with menaces staied him from concluding any thing that might preiudice his roiall liberties and prerogatiues. King Edward held a parlement at London,A parlement. in the which he demanded a fifteenth of the cleargie, which latelie before he had got of the temporaltie. The archbishop of Yorke was content at the first to grant this fif|teenth to be paid of the cleargie within his diocesse in two yeares;The archbi|shop of Yorke. but the archbishop of Canturburie held off,The archbi|shop of Can|turburie. and required re [...]pit till the next parlement to be holden after Easter, and then he granted vnto the king the dismes of all his cleargie for thrée yeares, that in some point he might be different from the archbishop of Yorke.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the ninth yeare of king Edwards reigne, Anno Reg 9. 1281 the feast of the round table was kept at Warwike with great and sumptuous triumph.The feast of the round ta|ble holden as Warwike. Dauid the brother of Leolin re [...]|teth, and be|commeth a rebell. Whilest these things were in dooing, Dauid brother to Leolin prince of Wales, forgetting the great benefits which he had receiued at the hands of king Edward, became his aduersarie, and caused his said brother the prince of Wales with a great number of other noble men of that countrie to rebell: and to incourage them the sooner to attempt the warre, he began the first ex|ploit himselfe,The lord Clifford taken. taking the said lord Roger Clifford (a right worthie and famous knight) in his castell of Hawardine, vpon Palme sundaie, the said lord being in no doubt of any such matter. Diuerse knights and other that were in the same castell at that time, and made resistance, were slaine.