Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Upon the ninth day of August, proclamation was made in diuerse places of the citie,A proclama|tion against purue [...]ers. that none of the kings takers should take any thing within the citie, without the will of the owner, except two tunnes of wine, which the king accustomablie had of euerie ship comming from Burdeaux, paieng but 40 shil|lings for the tun. By meanes of this proclamation, nothing was taken by the kings officers within the citie and liberties of the same, except readie paiment were made in hand, which vse continued not long. Herevpon the king held a parlement at Westmin|ster, and another at Winchester,A parlement. or else proroged and remoued the same thither. Also sir Hugh Bigod lord chéefe iustice, with Roger Turksey, and other cal|led Itinerarij, kept the terme for plées at saint Saui|ours: for you must vnderstand,The iustices sit at S· Sa|uiours. that in those daies they were kept in diuerse places of the realme, which now are holden altogither at Westminster, and iud|ges ordeined to kéepe a circuit, as now they kéepe the assises in time of vacation.Bailiffes and other officers punished. The foresaid iudges sit|ting on that maner at saint Sauiours, punished bai|liffes, and other officers verie extremelie, which were conuict afore them for diuerse trespasses, and special|lie for taking of merciaments otherwise than law gaue them. After this, the same sir Hugh came vnto the Guildhall, and there sat in iudgement,Bakers pu|nished. and kept plees without order of law; yea contrarie to the liber|ties of the citie, he punished bakers for lacke of true size, by the tumbrell; where before they were punished by the pillorie, & manie other things he vsed after such manner, more by will than good order of law.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 There was a bruite raised (whether of truth or o|therwise we leaue to the credit of the authors) that the Poictouins had practised to poison the most part of the English nobilitie. Matth. Paris. The Poicto|uins suspected to haue poi|soned y^e Eng|lish lords. Indéed diuers of them were greeuouslie tormented with a certeine disease of swelling and breaking out, some died, and othersome verie hardlie escaped, of which number the earle of Glocester was one, who laie sicke a long time at Sunning a place besides Reading. At length he re|couered: but his brother William died of the same disease, and vpon his death-bed laid the fault to one Walter Scotenie, as the occasioner of his death, which afterwards cost the said Walter his life. For although he was one of the chéefe councellors, and steward also to the said earle of Glocester, yet being had in suspicion, and thervpon apprehended and char|ged with that crime, when in the yeare next follow|ing in Iune he came to be arreigned at Winche|ster, and put himselfe to be tried by a iurie,Walter Sco|tonie arreig|ned and con|demned. the same pronounced him guiltie: and when those that were impanneled vpon that iurie were asked by the iud|ges how they vnderstood that he should be giltie, they answered, bicause that where the said Walter was neuer indebted, that they could heare of, either to William de Ualence, or to any of his brethren, they were fullie certified that he had late receiued no EEBO page image 260 small sum of monie of the said W. de Ualence to poi|son both his maister and other of the English nobili|tie as was to be thought, sith there was no other ap|parant cause why he should receiue such a gift at the hands of their enimie the said William de Ualence, and so was the said Walter executed at Winche|ster aforesaid.He suffereth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The haruest was verie late this yeare, so that the most part of the corne rotted on the ground,A late haruest and that which at length was got in, remained yet abrode till after Alhallowentide, so vntemperate was the wea|ther, with excessiue wet and raine beyond all mea|sure.Dearth of corne increa|seth. Herevpon the dearth so increased, that euen those which had of late releeued other, were in danger to starue themselues. Finallie solemne fasts and ge|nerall processions were made in diuerse places of the realme to appease Gods wrath,Fasts & pro|cessions vsed. and (as it was thought) their praiers were heard, for the weather partlie amended, and by reason the same serued to get in some such corne as was not lost, the price there|of in the market fell halfe in halfe. A good and memo|rable motiue, that in such extremities as are aboue the reach of man to redresse, we should by and by haue recourse to him that can giue a remedie a|gainst euerie casualtie. For

Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus.