[1] This was the effect of the agréement at length had and made betwixt the abbat and moonks of Bu|rie on the one part, & the inhabitants of that towne on the other part, and for the more confirmation ther|of, it pleased the king to put his seale to the charter conteining the same agréement. ¶ But how soeuer it chanced, it should appeare by such records as came to the hands of master Iohn Fox,This might come to passe before the a|gréement wa [...] made in the fift yeare of the kings reigne as a|boue is men|tioned, and so therevpon he might be re|stored. as he alledgeth in the first tome of his booke of acts and monuments, this agreement was but sorilie kept: for diuerse of the former offendors, bearing grudge towards the abbat for breaking promise with them at London, did confederat themselues togither, and priuilie in the night comming to the manour of Chennington where the abbat then did lie, burst open the gates, and entring by force, first bound all his seruants, and af|ter they had robbed the house, they tooke the abbat, and shauing him, secretlie conueied him to London, and there remoouing him from street to stréet vn|knowne, had him ouer the Thames into Kent, and at length transported him ouer vnto Dist in Brabant, where they kept him for a time in much penurie, thral|dome and miserie, vntill at length the matter being vnderstood, they were all excommunicate, first by the archbishop, & after by the pope. At the last, his freends hauing knowledge where he was, they found means to deliuer him out of the hands of those theeues, and finallie brought him home with procession, and so he was restored to his house againe.