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Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the morow, those that were saued, called out to the people, and not onelie shewed how and after what sort their fellowes were dispatched, but also of|fered to be baptised, and forsake their Iudaisme, if they might haue their liues saued from the immi|nent & present danger wherein they saw themselues to be wrapped, through the furie of the people. To be short, this thing was granted, and they came foorth, howbeit they were no sooner entred into the prease, but they were all slaine, and not one man of them preserued.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this also, the people ran to the cathedrall church, and broke into those places where their bonds and obligations laie, by the which they had diuerse of the kings subiects bound vnto them in most vncon|scionable sort, and for such detestable vsurie as (if the authors that write thereof were not of credit) would hardlie be beleeued. All which euidences or bonds they solemnelie burned in the middest of the church. After which, ech went his waie, the souldiers to the king, and the commons to their houses, and so was the citie quieted. This happened at Yorke on Palmesundaie eeue, being the 17. of March: and vp|on the 15. of that moneth, those that inhabited in the towne of S. Edmundsburie in Suffolke, were set vpon, and manie of them slaine. The residue that es|caped, through the procurement of the abbat then named Samson, were expelled, so that they neuer had anie dwellings there since that time.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus were the Iewes vnmercifullie dealt with in all places in maner through this realme, the first be|ginning whereof chanced at London (as before ye haue heard) and the next at Lin, of which I thinke it good to note some part of the maner therof, although breeflie, and so to returne to my purpose. The occa|sion therefore of the tumult at Lin chanced by this meanes: it fortuned that one of the Iewes there was become a christian, wherewith those of his nati|on were so mooued, that they determined to kill him where soeuer they might find him. And herevpon they set vpon him one daie as he came by, through the stréets: he to escape their hands fled to the next church; but his countriemen were so desirous to ex|ecute their malicious purpose, that they followed him still, and inforced themselues to breake into the church vpon him. Herewith the noise being raised by the christians that sought to saue the conuerted Iew, a number of mariners being forreners, that were arriued there with their vessels out of sundrie parts, and diuerse also of the townesmen came to the re|scue, and setting vpon the Iewes, caused them to flée into their houses.

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