Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 As soone as this pardon was published,Commissio|ners. and the so|lemnitie of the feast of the coronation ended, there were certeine commissioners assigned to take order with all such persons as were excepted out of the par|don, and others, to compound with the queene for their seuerall offenses. Which commissioners sat at the deane of Paules his house, at the west end of Paules church, and there called before them the said persons apart, and from some they tooke their fees and offices granted before by king Edward the sixt, and yet neuerthelesse putting them to their fines: and some they committed to ward, depriuing them of their states and liuings: so that for the time, to those that tasted thereof, it seemed verie grieuous. God deliuer vs from incurring the like danger of law againe. The fift daie of October next following,A parlement. the quéene held hir hie court of parlement at West|minster, EEBO page image 1092 which continued vntill the one and twentith daie of the said moneth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the first session of which parlement, there pas|sed no more acts but one, and that was, to declare queene Marie lawfull heire in descent to the crowne of England by the common lawes, next after hir brother king Edward;Treason. Felonie. Premunire. and to repeale certeine cau|ses of treason, fellonie, and premunire, conteined in diuers former statutes: the which act of repeale was, for that cardinall Poole was especiallie looked for (as after ye shall heare) for the reducing of the church of England to the popes obedience: and to the end that the said cardinall now called into England from Rome, might hold his courts legantine without the danger of the statutes of the premunire, made in that case, whereinto cardinall Wolseie (when he was legat) had incurred to his no small losse, and to the charge of all the clergie of England, for exerci|sing the like power:The parle|ment proro|ged. the which act being once passed, foorthwith the queene repaired to the parlement house, and gaue therevnto hir roiall assent, and then proroged the parlement vnto the foure and twentith daie of the said moneth. In which second session were confirmed and made diuerse and sundrie statutes concerning religion, wherof some were restored, and other repealed.

¶Sir Thomas White for this yéere maior and mer|chant tailor, Abr, Fl. ex. I. S. pag 1075. Charitable deeds of sir Thomas White. a woorthie patrone and protector of poore scholers & lerning, renewed or rather erected a college in Oxenford, now called saint Iohns college, before Bernard college. He also erected schooles at Bristow and Reading. Moreouer, this worshipfull citizen in his life time gaue to the citie of Bristow two thou|sand pounds of readie monie to purchase lands, to the yearlie value of one hundred & twentie pounds, for the which it is decreed, that the maior, burgesses and communaltie of Bristow, in the yeare of our Lord 1567, and so yearelie during the tearme of ten yeares then next insuing,A president of monie well emploied af|ter death. should cause to be paid at Bristow, one hundred pounds of lawfull monie. The first eight hundred pounds to be lent to sixtéene poore yoongmen clothiers, & fréemen of the same towne, for the space of ten yeares, fiftie pounds the péece of them, putting sufficient suerties for the same, and at the end of ten yeares, to be lent to other sixteene, at the discretion of the maior, aldermen, and foure of the common councell of the said citie.