Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus when the archbishop was constreined to keepe silence, sir Iohn Bushie procéeded in his pur|pose, requiring on the behalfe of the commons, that the charters of pardons granted vnto the traitors, to wit, the duke of Glocester, and the earles of Arundell and Warwike, should be reuoked by consent of all the estates now in parlement assembled. The king also for his part protested, that those pardons were not voluntarilie granted by him, but rather extorted EEBO page image 491 by compulsion, and therefore he besought them that euerie man would shew foorth their opinions what they thought thereof. There were two other persons of great credit with the king, besides sir Iohn Bu|shie, [...] Walsi. that were, as before yee haue heard, verie ear|nest to haue those charters of pardon reuoked and made void, to wit, sir William Bagot, and sir Tho|mas Gréene.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But bicause this matter séemed to require good deliberation, it was first put to the bishops, who with small adoo gaue sentence, that the said charters were reuocable, and might well inough be called in: yet the archbishop of Canturburie in his answer here|vnto said, that the king from whome those pardons came, was so high an estate, that he durst not saie, that anie such charters by him granted, might be re|uoked: notwithstanding, his brethren the bishops thought otherwise: not considering (saith Thomas Walsingham) that such reuoking of the kings char|ters of pardon should sound highlie to the kings dis|honor: forsomuch as mercie and pardoning trans|gressions is accompted to be the confirmation and establishing of the kings seat and roiall estate.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The temporall lords perceiuing what the bishops had doone, did likewise giue their consents, to reuoke the same pardons: but the iudges with those that were toward the law, were not of this opinion, but finallie the bishops pretending a scrupulositie, as if they might not with safe consciences be present where iudgement of bloud should passe, they appoin|ted a laie man to be their prolocutor to serue that turne. To conclude, at length all maner of charters of pardon were made void,The charters of pardõ gran+ted to y^e lords made void by parlement. for that the same séemed to impeach the suertie of the kings person. When sir Iohn Bushie and his associats had obteined that re|uocation, it was further by them declared, that the earle of Arundell had yet an other speciall charter of pardon for his owne person, which he had obteined after the first. And therefore sir Iohn Bushie ear|nestlie requested in name of the communaltie that the same might likewise be reuoked.