[1] Somewhat before this season fell a great diuision in the realme of England, which of a sparkle was like to haue grown to a great flame. For whether the bishop of Winchester called Henrie Beaufort,Dissenti [...] betwixt the duke of Glo|cester and the bishop of W [...]|chester. sonne to Iohn duke of Lancaster by his third wife, enuied the authoritie of Humfreie duke of Glocester, pro|tectour of the realme; or whether the duke disdained at the riches and pompous estate of the bishop: sure it is that the whole realme was troubled with them and their partakers: so that the citizens of London were faine to kéepe dailie and nightlie watches, and to shut vp their shops for feare of that which was doubted to haue insued of their assembling of people about them. The archbishop of Canturburie and the duke of Quimbre, called the prince of Portingale, [page 591] rode eight times in one daie betwéene the two par|ties, and so the matter was staied for a time. But the bishop of Winchester, to cléere himselfe of blame so farre as he might, and to charge his nephue the lord protectour with all the fault, wrote a letter to the re|gent of France, the tenor whereof insueth.