Compare 1577 edition: 1 It is reported by some writers, that the pope at first, not vnderstanding the truth of the whole cir|cumstance, should send to king Richard, comman|ding him by force of the canons of the church to deli|uer his sons the bishop and archdeacon out of their captiuitie. To whom the king sent their armour with this message written in Latine,
Vide an tunica filij tui sit an non, that is, See whether these are the garments of thy sonnes or not: alluding to the saieng of those that caried Iosephs coate to Iacob. Genes. 37. Which when the pope saw, he said:
Naie by S. Peter, it is neither the apparell of my sonnes, nor yet of my brethren: but rather they are the vestures of the children of Mars: and so he left them still to be ransomed at the kings pleasure. The bishop thus séeing no hope to be deli|uered without some agréement had betwixt the two kings, became now through irkesomnesse of his bonds, an earnest mediatour for peace, whereas be|fore he had beene an extreme stirrer vp of war. Such a schoolemaister is imprisonment, & plucker downe of loftie courages. But to proceed.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Anno Reg. 8.About the same time the archbishop of Rouen put all the countrie of Normandie vnder sentence of in|terdiction, bicause king Richard had begun to fortifie a castell at Lisle Dandelie,Normandie interdicted by ye archbishop of Rouen. vpon a péece of ground which the archbishop claimed to apperteine vnto his sée. The matter was brought before the pope, who perceiuing the intent of king Richard was not o|therwise grounded vpon any couetous purpose to defraud the church of hir right, but onelie to build a fortresse in such place as was most expedient for de|fense of the countrie about, to preserue it from inua|sion of the enimies; he counselled the archbishop not to stand against the king in it, but to exchange with him for some other lands: which was doone, and the interdiction by the pope released. The bishop of Elie lord chancellour, being sent about this businesse towards Rome,The bishop of Elie departed this life. departed this life by the way at Poictiers, in Ianuarie.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But the bishops of Durham & Lisieux that were sent with him, passed forward, and comming to Rome, informed the pope of the matter, who tooke order with the bishops (as before is mentioned.) The king gaue to the church in Rouen in recompense, his milles which he had in Rouen, so that the said church should paie the almes of old time appointed to be giuen for the same. He gaue to the said church like|wise the towne of Diepe, and the towne of Bussels, so that the church should likewise paie the almes as|signed foorth of the same, being the summe of 372 pounds of Aniouine monie: also the manour of Lo|uers, and the forrest of Alermound with the deere and the appurtenances. But now to other dooings.