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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The duke indeed could not abide the cardinall, and speciallie he had of late conceiued an inward malice against him for sir William Bulmers cause,Great hatred betweéne the [...] cardinall, and the duke of Bucking|ham. whose trouble was onelie procured by the cardinall; who first caused him to be cast in prison. Now such grée|uous words as the duke thus vttered against him, came to the cardinals eare; wherevpon he cast before hand all waies possible to haue him in a trip, that he might cause him to leape headlesse. But bicause he doubted his fréends, kinnesmen, and alies, and chéef|lie the earle of Surrie lord admerall, which had mar|ried the dukes daughter, he thought good first to send him some whither out of the waie, least he might cast a trumpe in his waie. There was great enimitie be|twixt the cardinall and the earle, for that on a time, when the cardinall tooke vpon him to checke the earle, he had like to haue thrust his dagger into the cardi|nall.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At length there was occasion offered him to com|passe his purpose, by occasion of the earle of Kil|dare his comming out of Ireland. For the cardinall knowing he was well prouided of monie, sought occasion to fléece him of part thereof. The earle of Kildare being vnmarried, was desirous to haue an English woman to wife; and for that he was a suter to a widow contrarie to the cardinals mind, he ac|cused him to the king, of that he had not borne him|selfe vprightlie in his office in Ireland, where he was the kings lieutenant. Such accusations were fra|med against him when no bribes would come,The earle of Kildare com|mitted to+ward. that he was committed to prison, and then by the cardinals good preferment the earle of Surrie was sent into Ireland as the kings deputie, in lieu of the said earle of Kildare, there to remaine rather as an exile, than as lieutenant to the king, euen at the cardinals plea|sure, as he himselfe well perceiued.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the beginning of Aprill, Edw. Hall. the said earle passed ouer into Ireland, and had with him diuerse gentle|men that had béene in the garrison of Tornaie, and one hundred yeomen of the kings gard, and others, to the number of a thousand men,Good seruice doone by the earle of Sur|rie. where he by his manhood and policie brought the earle of Desmond and diuerse other rebels to good conformitie and or|der. He continued there two yeares, in which space he had manie bickerings and skirmishes with the wild Irish. There rested yet the earle of Northum|berland, whome the cardinall doubted also, Polydor. least he might hinder his purpose, when he should go about to wreake his malice against the duke of Bucking|ham: and therefore he picked a quarell to him,The earle of Northumber|land commit|ted to prison. for that he had seized vpon certeine wards which the car|dinall said apperteined of right to the king. And bi|cause the earle would not giue ouer his title, he was also committed to prison, & after tooke it for a great benefit at the cardinals hands, that he might be deli|uered out of his danger.

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