Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 The fiue and twentith of Maie, beteene London and Grauesend, were taken two great fishes called whorlepooles, male and female. ¶In this season, there was in the realme much preaching, one lerned man holding against another, namelie in the matter of the kings mariage. After Christmas, the parlement began to sit againe, in the which the commons found themselues sore gréeued with the crueltie of ordina|ries,Crueltie of ordinaries. that called men before them Ex officio. At length, a booke was drawne of all the griefes of the com|mons, for the cruell demeanor of the cleargie, and the same deliuered to th [...] K. by the speaker, humblie beséeching him in the name of all the commons, to take such direction therein, as to his high wisedome might séeme most expedient. The king answered, that he would take aduise, and heare the partie accu|sed speake. He was not so readie to gratifie the com|mons in their requests, as some thought that he would haue béene, if they had not sticked and refused to passe a statute, which he had sent to them touching wards and primer seasons.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The parlemẽt proroged. Annates for|bidden to be paid.After this, was the parlement proroged till the tenth of Aprill. In this parlement was an act made, that bishops should paie no more annates or monie for their bulles to the pope: for it was prooued that there had béene paid for bulles of bishops, since the fourth yeare of Henrie the seuenth an hundred thrée|score thousand pounds sterling, beside other dispen|sations & pardons. When the parlement was begun againe after Easter, there was a motion made to helpe the king with monie toward his charges about the edifieng of houses, piles, and other fortifications, vpon the borders fore against Scotland, both for bet|ter habitation to be had there, & also for the restraint of the Scots that vsed to make inuasions. There was therefore a fiftéenth granted, but not enacted at this session,A fiftéenth granted. bicause that [...] began a pesti|lence in Westminster, [...] parlement was proroged, as ye shall heare in the ne [...] yeare.
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A toll deman|ded in the low countries.In this yeare was an old toll demanded in
Flan|ders of Englishmen called th [...]
[...]oll of the hound, which is a riuer and a passage. The toll is twelue pence of a fardell. It had béene
often demanded, but neuer paied, insomuch that king Henrie the seuenth for the demand of that toll, prohibited all his subiects to kéepe anie mart at Antwerpe or Barrow, till it was
promised that vpon their returne the said toll should neuer be demanded. The king sent doctor Knight, and
others to Calis, whither came the emperours com|missioners, and there (vpon talke) the matter was put in
suspension for a time. The king hauing purcha|sed of the cardinall after his attendure in the premu|nire his
house at Westminster,
Yorke place or white Hall now the palace of Westmin|ster. S. Iames.