Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The bishop of Excester le [...]t in charge with the citie of London.The king at his departure from London, left mai|ster Walter Stapleton the bishop of Excester be|hind him, to haue the rule of the citie of London. Then shortlie after, the quéene with hir son, making towards London, wrote a letter to the maior, and the citizens, requiring to haue assistance for the putting downe of the Spensers, not onelie knowne enimies of theirs, but also common enimies to all the realme of England. To this letter no answer at the first was made, Caxton. wherefore an other was sent, dated at Baldocke the sixt daie of October, vnder the names of Isabell by the grace of God queene of England, ladie of Ireland, and countesse of Pontieu, and of Ed|ward eldest sonne to the king of England, duke of Guien, earle of Chester, of Pontieu and of Muttrell. This letter being directed to the maior and commu|naltie of London, conteining in effect, that the cause of their landing and entring into the realme at that time, was onelie for the honor of the king and wealth of the realme, meaning hurt to no maner of person, but to the Spensers, was fastened vpon the crosse in Cheape, then called the new crosse in Cheape, on the night before the ninth daie of October. Diuerse co|pies of the same letter were set vp, and fastened vpon windowes and doores in other places of the citie, and one of the same copies was tacked vpon the lord ma|iors gates.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After which letter thus published in the citie, a great number of artificers, Fabian. Thom. Walsi. and other that loued not to sit in rest vpon such occasion of discord offered, now that things were in bro [...]le in other parts of the realme, assembled in great numbers, & with weapon in hand came to the lord maior of the citie, whom they knew to fauor the kings part,The lord maior forc [...] to take [...] & therefore they forced him through feare of some iniurious violence, to re|ceiue an oth to stand to their ordinance, which was to put to death all those that were aduersaries to the quéene, or had by any meanes procured the hinde|rance of the cities liberties, vnder pretext of which oth they ran and tooke one of the citizens,Iohn Ma [...]|shall taken [...] beheaded called Iohn Marshall, who bicause he was verie familiar with the earle of Glocester, and therefore suspected to haue accused the citizens, they stroke off his head, and spoi|led all his goods.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 On the same day, being the fourtéenth of October, continuing their rage, they ran to the house of the bi|shop of Excester, Walter de Stapleton, and setting fire on the gates, they entred and spoiled him of all his plate, iewels, monie and goods. And as it chanced in an infortunate houre for him, the bishop being at the same time returning from the fields, would not seeme to shrinke, although he was admonished of these outragious attempts of the people; but sitting on horssebacke, came to the north doore of S. Paule, where forthwith the furious people laid violent hands on him, threw him downe, and drew him most out|ragiouslie into Cheapeside, where they proclamed him an open traitor, a seducer of the king, and a de|stroier of their liberties. The bishop had vpon him a certeine cote of defense, which was called an aketon,The bishop of Excester beheaded, the same therefore being plucked beside his backe as all other his garments, they shore his head from his shoulders, and to the like death they put two of his seruants, the one an esquire, and the other a yeoman, The bishops head was set on a pole for a spectacle, that the remembrance of his death, and the cause thereof might continue. His bodie was buried in an old churchyard of the pied friers, without a|ny manner of exequies of funerall seruice doone for him.