[1] [2] [3] Ger. Dor. Moreouer at this councell, king Henrie restored vnto Robert earle of Leicester all his lands, both on this side the sea, and beyond, in maner as he held the same fiftéene daies before the warre. To William de Albenie earle of Arundell, he gaue the earledome of Sussex. About midlent, the king with his sonne and the legat came to London, where at Westmin|ster a conuocation of the cleargie was called, but when the legat was set, and the archbishop of Can|turburie on his right hand as primat of the realme, the archbishop of Yorke comming in,The presum|ptuous de|meanor of ye archbishop of Yorke. and disdaining to sit on the left, where he might séeme to giue prehe|minence vnto the archbishop of Canturburie (vn|manerlie inough indeed) swasht him downe, mean|ing to thrust himselfe in betwixt the legat, and the archbishop of Canturburie. And where belike the said archbishop of Canturburie was loth to remooue, he set his buttocks iust in his lap, but he scarslie touched the archbishops skirt with his bum, when the bishops and other chapleins with their seruants stept to him, pulled him away, and threw him to the ground, and beginning to lay on him with bats and fists, the arch|bishop of Canturburie yeelding good for euill, sought to saue him from their hands. Thus was verified in him that sage sentence,

Pub. Mim.Nunquam periculum sine periculo vincitur.

The archbishop of Yorke with his rent rochet got vp, and awaie he went to the king with a great com|plaint against the archbishop of Canturburie: but when vpon examination of the matter the truth was knowne, he was well laught at for his labour, and that was all the remedie he got. As he departed so be|buffeted foorth of the conuocation house towards the king, they cried out vpon him;

Go traitor that did|dest betray that holy man Thomas, go get thee hence, thy hands yet stinke of bloud.

The assemblie was by this meanes dispersed, and the legat fled and got him out of the waie, as he might with shame enough, which is the common panion and waiting-woman of pride, as one verie well said,

Pub. Mim.Citò ignominia fit superbi gloria.