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matter, and had surely betrayed the Earle, if the Bishop of Ely, 



acquainted with the same, had not thus preuented the mischief. 



he BishopUpon sure intelligence of these p'ceedings both in England and 



luainteth Britaine, he sent Christopher Urswick to the Earle of Bichmound 



Loundwith w tfc full no tice of the danger he stoode in, advising him w th all 



.1 matters, e . 



aduiseth secrecy and speedinesse to convey himselfe into ffraunce under 

 1 into couler of some hunting match, to w h he was orderly intentiue. 



ffraunce. . 



and fortunately obeidient, and soe p r sented himselfe to K. Charles 

 of whome he was not only louingly accepted, but princely sup- 

 plied with men, money, and munition ; whereof if Ely had not 

 bin the Author, and as it weare the threed to conduct him out of 

 the laberinth of his troubles. Eichmond, it had bin ill with 

 thee, and all thy co'plices, neither had thy fortunes increased, 

 nor frinds reioyced, neither had former dissention bin allaied, 

 neither had the roses bin ioyned, nor of thy daughter Margett, 

 a kinseman raised by eternall happinesse to unite two kingdoms 

 togither, and make o r Hand one monarchy ! Whereupon, when 

 King Henry had most prudently made a collection of these 

 inestimable benefits, collated, and transferred unto him by the 

 only wisdome and endeauours of the Bishop of Ely, as well to 

 avoide ingratitude as to shew his owne princelynes, he recalled 

 I El re him home againe, and, in the place of John Alcock, Bishop of 

 J_Worchester, made him lo r High Chancellor of England, and 



len John Boucer died, sollicited by y e mouncks and p r lates of 

 y* see, advaunced him, metropolitan and Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury. 



When he was thus confirmed an Archbis., as it becometh a 

 good pastor, he most iudiciously gouerned the church and ouer- 

 looked the clergy, appointing a Synode in the yeare 1486, in 

 Paule's Church of London, whereunto he summoned the rest of 

 the bishops, and many other p r lats, and wherein many excellent 

 matters, as is well knowne upon record, weare discussed, and 

 diuers lawes established, espetially against the clergie of London 

 ff or theire riotous behaviour ; if or their frequenting of taverns 

 and cook houses more often and unseemly than befitted men of 

 their rancke j ifor their weake sermons at Paul's crosse, desisting 



