Compare 1577 edition: 1 Whilest the armie (as ye haue heard) laie idle in the north parts, there were certeine letters found by a poore man about London,Treason in letters writ|tẽ by sir Rafe Ferrers to certeine French lords. who deliuered them vn|to the worthie citizen Iohn Philpot, who calling vnto him certeine other worshipfull citizens, opened one of them, in which was conteined matter of high trea|son: and perceiuing by the scale that it belonged vn|to sir Rafe Ferrers knight, one of the kings priuie councell, deliuered that letter with foure other let|ters closed with the same seale, first to the lord chan|cellor, and after to the king, the which being read and the seale knowne to be the said sir Rafe Ferrers his seale, manie greatlie maruelled that so ancient a knight, and one in whom so great trust was put, should go about any such treasons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 One of the letters was directed to sir Bertram de Cleaquin, an other to the lord de la Riuer the cham|berlaine of France, an other to the lord Clisson, and an other to the patrone of the gallies, and to the cap|teine of the armie of Frenchmen and Spaniards, which at the same time wasting alongst the coasts, did much hurt in diuerse places of the land. Foorthwith the said Philpot and others were sent in post from the king to the duke of Lancaster, that for somuch as the said sir Rafe Ferrers was then in the north parts with him, intreating with the Scots, he should ar|rest him and put him in safe kéeping, which comman|dement the duke did accomplish, and committed him to be safelie kept in the castell of Duresme, but short|lie after in the next parlement he was set at libertie, foure barons being bound for his foorth comming, till time that he might more euidentlie declare his innocencie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the feast of S. Martine, was a parlement holden at Northampton to the more trouble of them that came to it,A parlement at Northamp|ton. bicause in that season of the yeare they were constreined to come where there was no store of fewell to make them fiers: and beside that, lodgings were verie streict for so great a multitude. But the cause that mooued the councell to appoint this parlement there, was to the end that they might the more fréelie procéed to the triall of Iohn Kirkbie a citizen of London,Iohn Kirkbie executed for murthering a merchant stranger. that had murthered the Geno|w [...]is (as before ye haue hard) which Kirkbie was con|demned at this parlement, and drawne and hanged in the sight of the Londoners that were come thi|ther, which execution if it should haue beene doone at London, the lords doubted least some tumult might haue béene raised by the citizens, who were reckoned in those daies verie rash and presumptuous in their dooings.