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Compare 1577 edition: 1 This maladie was so cruell, that it killed some within thrée houres, some within two houres,The sweting sicknesse per|emptorie and deadlie. some merrie at dinner, and dead at supper. Manie died in the kings court, the lord Clinton, the lord Graie of Wilton, and manie knights, gentlemen, and offi|cers. For this plague Michaelmasse tearme was adiourned. And bicause that this maladie continued from Iulie to the midst of December, the king kept himselfe euer with a small companie, and held no solemne Christmasse, willing to haue no resort for feare of infection: but much lamented the number of his people, for in some one towne halfe the people died, and in some other towne the third part, the sweat was so feruent and infectuous. [By the extre|mitie whereof, Abr. Flem, and the multitudes with such sudden|nesse and present mortalitie dropping awaie: it should seeme that they little remembred, or at least|wise neglected the preseruatiue remedie vsed in the first great sweating sickenesse in Sée before. pag. 763, 764 king Henrie the seuenths time, whereby as then manie a mans life was saued, so now the like benefit (by applieng of the same wholsome meanes) might haue redounded to the patients.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In the beginning of this yeare,1519 Anno Reg. 1 [...]. Trinitie tearme was begun at Oxenford, where it continued but one daie, and was againe adiourned to Westminster.The tearme begun at Ox|ford and ad|iourned to Westminster. This yeare came to Calis from pope Leo, a legat De latere, called Laurence Campeius borne in Bul|logne EEBO page image 845 la Grasse, [...]ardinall [...] from [...] pope. [...]. commonlie called cardinall Cam|peius, to require the king of aid against the Turke. At the request of the king of England, and also of the French king (which sought now to be receiued into fréendship with the king of England chéeflie by cardi|nall Woolsies meanes) pope Leo constituted the said cardinall Woolsie his legat in England, ioining him in commission with the said Campeius, the which staid at Calis vntill the bulles were brought from Rome touching that matter. [...] Hall. [...] of [...] at [...]. There was also another cause that staid Campeius at Calis, & that was a sute which cardinall Woolsie had mooued for the obteining of the bishoprike of Bath, which bene|fice cardinall Adrian Castalian inioied by the colla|tion of king Henrie the seuenth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This cardinall Adrian being fallen in the popes displeasure, withdrew out of the court of Rome vn|to Uenice: and in the meane time cardinall Cam|peius, at the instance of cardinall Woolsie, wrote to the pope, that cardinall Adrian might be depriued of that bishoprike, to the end that cardinall Woolsie might haue the same. Which request was accompli|shed, and the bulles sent vnto Calis; so that then car|dinall Campeius, after he had remained at Calis thrée moneths, came ouer into England, and was receiued with all pompe & honour that might be de|uised. [...]br. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in H [...]. fol. lxiiij. ¶ Insomuch that cardinall Woolsie had sent to the legat (whilest he laie at Calis) red cloth to cloath his seruants, which at their comming to Calis were but meanelie apparelled. And when all things were readie, he passed the sea and landed at Douer; and so kept foorth his iournie toward London.

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