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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 These and other articles of misdemeanour in the Spensers were exhibited, to persuade the king and others, that they were vnprofitable members in the common-wealth, and not worthie of those places which they occupied. Now after that their disheriting and banishment was concluded in manner as be|fore is said, the earle of Hereford and other the lords that had prosecuted the quarell against them, came before the king, and humblie on their knees besought him of pardon for all things which they had commit|ted against him, his lawes, or any other person in the pursuit of the said Spensers. The king, being brought into a streict, durst not but grant vnto all that which they requested, establishing the same by statute.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The parlement being thus ended,The king go|eth to Can|turburie. the king and quéene went to Canturburie, there to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket somtime archbishop there. From thence he went to the Ile of Tenet, that he might meet with his deare & welbeloued councellour Hugh Spenser the yoonger, whome he had of late sent in ambassage vnto the French king,He commeth to talke with the lord cham|berlaine. and now being re|turned by sea into those parts, he was desirous to see him, that he might haue conference with him: and so comming togither, they spent certeine daies in com|moning of such matters as they thought good. The king calling to him the mariners of the cinque ports, committed to them the custodie of the said Hugh, who for a time kept him with them in their ships, and the king sailing alongst the coast to Por|chester, conferred with him of manie things.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 From Porchester the king ment to returne vnto London, there to méet the quéene, who in hir returne from Canturburie would haue lodged one night in the castell of Léeds, which the lord Bartholomew de Badelismere late steward of the kings house had by exchange of the king for other lands, and now taking part with the barons, had left his wife and children with other of his fréends and treasure in the same castell.The quéene not suffered to lodge in the castell of Léeds. Those that were put in trust with keeping this castell, would neither permit quéene nor other to en|ter therein, without expresse commandement from their lord and maister, and so they signified not one|lie to the quéenes seruants that came before to make prouision for hir, but also declared the same to hir selfe comming thither in person.

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