Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this meane time the earle of Cambridge re|turned home from Portingale,The earle of Cambridge re+turneth out of Portingale. whither (as yee haue heard) he was sent the last yeare, and promise made, that the duke of Lancaster should haue followed him; but by reason of the late rebellion, and also for o|ther considerations, as the warres in Flanders be|twixt the erle and them of Gaunt, it was not thought conuenient that anie men of warre should go foorth of the realme: and so the king of Portingale not a|ble of himselfe to go through with his enterprise a|gainst the king of Spaine, after some small exploits atchiued by the Englishmen, and other of the earle of Cambridge his companie, as the winning of cer|teine fortresses belonging to the king of Castile, and that the two kings had laine in field, the one against the other by the space of fifteene daies without bat|tell, the matter was taken vp, and a peace concluded betwixt them, sore against the mind of the earle of Cambridge, who did what in him laie, to haue brought them to a set field: but when there was no remedie, he bare it so patientlie as he might, and re|turned home with his people, sore offended (though he said little) against the king of Portingale, for that he dealt otherwise in this matter than was looked for. He had affianced his sonne,The earle of Cambridge his son affian|ced to the king of Portingals daughter. which he had by the daughter of Peter, sometime king of Castile, vnto the king of Portingales daughter, now in the time of his being there: but although he was earnestlie requested of the said king, he would not leaue his sonne behind him, but brought him backe with him againe into England (togither with his mother) doubting the slipperie faith of those people.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the Lent season of this sixt yeare of king Ri|chards reigne, an other parlement was called at London, in the which there was hard hold about the buls sent to the bishop of Norwich from pope Ur|bane, concerning his iournie that he should take in hand against the Clementines (as we may call them, for that they held with pope Clement) whome the Urbanists (that is,Clementines. Urbanists. such as held with pope Urbane) tooke for schismatikes. Diuerse there were, that thought it not good that such summes of monie shuld be leuied of the kings subiects, and the same togither with an armie of men to be committed vnto the guiding of a prelat vnskilfull in warlike affaires. Other there were that would needs haue him to go, that the enimies of the church (as they tooke them) might be subdued.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And although the more part of the lords of the vpper house, and likewise the knights and burgesses of the lower house were earnestlie bent against this iournie; yet at length those that were of the contra|rie mind, preuailed; & so it was decreed, that it should forward, and that the said bishop of Norwich should haue the fiftéenth granted to the king in the last par|lement, EEBO page image 442 to paie the wages of such men of warre as should go ouer with him: for soldiers without monie passed not much of pardons, no not in those daies, ex|cept at the verie point of death, if they were not as|sured how to be answered of their wages, or of some other consideration wherby they might gaine. ¶ The tenth that was granted afore by the bishops at Ox|ford, was now in this same parlement appointed to remaine to the king for the kéeping of the seas, whi|lest the bishop should be foorth of the realme in follow|ing those wars.