Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus the popes within a while lost all their autho|ritie, which they had before time within this relme in the appointing of bishops, and other rulers of chur|ches; and in like manner also they lost shortlie after their authoritie of leuieng tenths of spirituall pro|motions, the which they in former times had vsed, to the great detriment of the realme; which lost nothing by this new ordinance: for the English people were not compelled afterwards to depart with their mo|nie vnto strangers, so largelie as before, to content the gréedinesse of that coruorant generation of Ro|manists, whose insatiable desires would admit no stint, as infected with the dropsie of filthie auarice, for

Omnia des cupido, siua non perit inde cupido,

Quò plus sunt potae plus sitiuntur aquae.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This restraining reformation concerned the bene|fit of the whole land verie much:The begining of th [...] statute of Premunire for K. Edward the third was the first that caused an act to be made, that none vnder a great penaltie should séeke to obteine anie spirituall promotions within this realme of the pope, or bring anie sutes to his court, except by waie of appeale: and that those that were the aiders of any such offendors against this act, should run in danger of the same paine, which act by those kings that suc|ceeded was not onelie commanded to be kept, but al|so confirmed with new penalties, and is called the statute of Premunire. Caxton.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About Candlemasse there met at Bruges as com|missioners for the king of England,1275 Anno Reg. 49. the duke of Lan|caster, the earle of Salisburie, and the bishop of Lon|don. For the French king, the dukes of Aniou,The commis|sioners méet at Bruges. and Burgognie, the earle of Salebruce, and the bishop of Amiens with others. Finallie, when they could not agree vpon anie good conclusion for peace, they ac|corded vpon a truce,A truce taken betwixt Eng|land & Frãce. to indure to the first of Maie next insuing in all the marches of Calis, and vp to the water of Some; but the other places were at li|bertie to be still in warre: by report of other writers, the truce was agreed vpon to continue till the feast of All saints next insuing. Fabian. Froissard. About the same time that the foresaid commissioners were at Bruges intrea|ting of peace, the duke of Britaine did so much with his father in law king Edward, that about the be|ginning of Aprill he sent ouer with him into Bri|taine the earles of Cambridge, March, Warwike, Tho. Wals. An armie sent ouer into Bri+taine with the duke. and Stafford, the lord Spenser, sir Thomas Holland, sir Nicholas Camois, sir Edward Twiford, sir Ri|chard Ponchardon, sir Iohn Lesselles, sir Thomas Grandson, sir Hugh Hastings, and diuerse other worthie capteins with a power of thrée thousand ar|chers, and two thousand men of armes, all verie well furnished to fight.