[1] [2] After that the duke of Bedford had set all things in good order in England, he tooke leaue of the king, and togither with his wife returned into France, first landing at Calis, where the bishop of Winche|ster (that also passed the seas with him) r [...]ceiued the habit, hat, and dignitie of a cardinall,

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with all cere|monies to it apperteining: which promotion, the late K. right déeplie persing into the vnrestrainable am|bitious mind of the man, that euen from his youth was euer to checke at the highest: and also right well ascerteined with what intollerable pride his head should soone be swollen vnder such a hat: did there|fore all his life long kéepe this prelat backe from that presumptuous estate. But now the king being yoong and the regent his fréend, he obteined his purpose, to his great profit, and the impouerishing of the spiri|tualtie of this realme. For by a bull legantine, which he purchased from Rome, he gathered so much trea|sure, that no man in maner had monie but he: so that he was called the rich cardinall of Winchester.