Compare 1577 edition: 1 The bishop of Lincolne did excommunicat a préest within his diocesse,The bishop of Lincolne. that was accused of incon|tinencie. And bicause the same preest continued for|tie daies without séeking to be reconciled, the bishop sent to the shiriffe of Rutland, within whose baili|wike the same préest dwelled, to apprehend him as a disobedient and rebellious person: but the shiriffe winked at the matter, and would not execute the bi|shops commandement, wherevpon the bishop did al|so excommunicat the shiriffe: whereof the king be|ing informed, tooke displeasure, and sending to the pope, procured an inhibition,An inhibition procured by the king of the pope. that no archbishop nor bishop should compell anie officer belonging to the king, to follow anie suit afore them, for those things that apperteined to the kings iurisdiction, or give sen|tence against them for the same.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The mondaie before the R [...]gation wéeke, Richard the kings brother earle of Cornewall,The earle of Cornwall r [...]turneth from the pope. returned from the court of Rome, where he had beene about certeine businesse vnknowne to most men: but whatsoeuer the same was, the pope gaue him most courteous and honorable interteinement for his welcome, and made him great cheare during his abode at Lions, where the popes court as then laie. ¶ About this season, the K. to rid himselfe out of debt, wherein he was indangered to certeine merchants, lessened the charges of his houshold, and kept but a meane port, diminishing euen the accustomed almesse of the poore,The king sp [...]reth to bring himselfe out of debt. and also the great number of tapers and lights in his chappell, so that he was noted with the blame of too much niggardlie sparing an [...] pinching: but in that he discharged his debt to the merchants, he was thought to doo wiselie and charitablie, for that he would not see them hindered to whom he was so in|debted; besides the opinion that he had concerning himselfe, namelie that

Profectum faciunt rarum quos debita stringunt.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About the same time also,The Iewes constreined to helpe the king with monie. he caused the Iewes to giue vnto him a great portion of their goods, so that they were greatlie impouerished. There was one of them named Aaron borne in Yorke, the which since the kings last returne out of Gascoigne, had paied to the king the summe of thirtie thousand markes, Matth. Paris. ouer and besides two hundred marks which he had giuen to the quéene, as the same Aaron protested to Matthew Paris vpon his faith and truth which he bare to his law. In the Whitsunwéeke was a generall chapter holden of the friers preachers at London in Holborne,A generall chapter of y^e friers prea|chers. where out of sundrie parts of the world were assembled aboue foure hundred of them, and they had meat and drinke found them of almesse, bi|cause they possessed nothing of their owne. On the first daie the king came into their chapter, that he might be partaker of their praiers, and found them meat and drinke that day, and dined there with them, to doo them the more honour. Another day the quéene likewise fed them, and afterwards the bishop of Lon|don, the abbats of Westminster, S. Albon, and Wal|tham, with others.