Now when the cardinall came to demand the booke due to the king:The bishops booke of his priuat [...] vnaduisedlie deliuered in+stead of the kings. the bishop vnaduisedlie com|manded his seruant to bring him the booke bound in white vellame lieng in his studie in such a place. The seruant dooing accordinglie, brought foorth one of those bookes so bound, being the booke intreating of the state of the bishop, and deliuered the same vnto his maister, who receiuing it (without further consi|deration or looking on) gaue it to the cardinall to beare vnto the king. The cardinall hauing the booke, went from the bishop, and after (in his studie by him|selfe) vnderstanding the contents thereof, he greatlie reioised, hauing now occasion (which he long sought for) offered vnto him to bring the bishop into the kings disgrace.

Wherefore he went foorthwith to the king,The bishops owne booke disaduantag [...] able to him|selfe. deliue|red the booke into his hands, and bréefelie informed the king of the contents thereof; putting further into the kings head, that if at anie time he were desti|tute of a masse of monie, he should not need to séeke further therefore than to the cofers of the bishop, who by the tenor of his owne booke had accompted his proper riches and substance to the value of a hundred EEBO page image 797 thousand pounds. Of all which when the bishop had intelligence (what he had doon, how the cardinall vsed him, what the king said, and what the world reported of him) he was striken with such gréefe of the same, that he shortlie through extreame sorrow ended his life at London,The bishop [...] of a [...] and [...]. in the yeare of Christ 1523. After whose death the cardinall, which had long before ga|ped after the said bishoprike, in singular hope to at|teine therevnto, had now his wish in effect: which he the more easilie compassed, for that he had his nets alwaies readie cast, as assuring himselfe to take a trout: following therein a prophane mans cautelous counsell, and putting the same in practise; who saith:

Casus vbi valet, semper tibi pendeat hamus,

[...] Quo minimè credis gurgite piscis erit.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The sicknesse which held the king dailie more and more increasing,150 [...] [...]. 24. he well perceiued that his end drew néere, and therefore meaning to doo some high plea|sure to his people, granted of his frée motion a gene|rall pardon to all men, for all offenses doone & com|mitted against anie his lawes or statutes; théeues, murtherers, & certeine other were excepted. He pai|ed also the fées of all prisoners in the gaoles in and a|bout London, abiding there onelie for that dutie. He paied also the debts of all such persons as laie in the counters or Ludgate for fourtie shillings, & vn|der; and some he reléeued that were condemned in ten pounds. Hervpon were processions generallie v|sed euerie daie in euerie citie and parish, to praie to almightie God for his restoring to health and long continuance of the same. Neuerthelesse, he was so [...] with his long maladie,The death of King Henrie the seuenth. that nature could no [...] his life, and so he departed out of this [...] two and twentith of Aprill, in his palace of [...], in the yéere of our Lord 1509. His corpse [...] conueied with all funerall pompe to West| [...]t [...]r, and there buried by the good queene his wife [...] sumptuous chapell, which he not long before had [...] to be builded.