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Compare 1577 edition: 1 At Easter following the king vtterlie forbad that any of those monies should be currant at all,Forren mo|nies forbid|den to go as currant. and held his exchange in sundrie places, and to be rid of them, men gaue fiue or six of them for one sterling, not caring for them, bicause of their basenesse, and yet within a yeare after that men had learned the skill by proofe how to trie mettall with melted lead in the fire, they found that two péeces of those base monies were in value worth one sterling, and many became rich by the exchange, which had bought good store of them, when they were so smallie esteemed: but the king caused inquirie to be made of them that vsed such exchange without his licence, and put them to their fines.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At a parlement holden at London in Lent this yeare, the king renewed the confirmation of the charters, and made certeine new statutes concer|ning fines and goale deliueries, verie profitable to the common-wealth. About the feast of saint Iohn Baptist, Abington. The king go|eth with an armie into Scotland. king Edward went with an armie into Scotland, and there granted a truce to the Scots that inhabited the mounteine countries to indure for eleuen moneths, that is to saie, till Whitsuntide next insuing. As the king was vpon his iournie fore|wards in the north parts, his late married wife queene Margaret was deliuered of hir first sonne at Brotherton,Thomas of Brotherton borne the first of Iune. a place in Yorkeshire not farre from Pontfret; he was named Thomas, and tooke the sur|name of Brotherton, of the place where he was borne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer pope Boniface at the sute of the Scots wrote his letters vnto king Edward, commanding him by the same and by the archbishop of Canturbu|rie, whome he appointed to deliuer the same letters by other letters to him directed, that he should not onelie release and set at libertie all such Scots as he had in prison, but also giue ouer his warres which he made against the realme of Scotland: and if he meant to make anie claime to the same, then to send his procurators vnto the court of Rome, and there to shew what euidence he could for his right thereto, where the mater (as he mainteined) was to be heard, decided, and iudged; and not elsewhere. The archbi|shop, according to the popes commandement, did the message, and presented the popes letters vnto the king, who deferred the answer vnto the assemblie of the estates in parlement, and hereof the archbishop aduertised the pope accordinglie, as in the letters to him diercted he was commanded; which he durst not but satisfie, bicause he was persuaded the popes au|thoritie to haue beene so ample and peremptorie, that there was no resisting or gainesaieng of him, sith,

Vt medijs ludunt in aquis immania coete,
Et patulo pisces quoslibet ore vorant:Antith, Christ. & Antichrist. pag. 24.
Sic tenet imperium mortales inter, & omnes
Diripit, illicita subdit & arte du [...]es,
Omnibus insultans, sic subijcit impius orbem,
Implicat atque suo regia colla iugo.

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