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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The commons hauing obteined this charter de|parted home, but ceassed not from their riotous de|meanour in sundrie parts of the realme, and especi|allie at saint Albons,The townes|men of saint Albons not yet quieted. where after the townesmen were returned home, they kept such a coile against the abbat and moonks, to haue certeine ancient char|ters deliuered them that concerned their liberties, and to haue such new made and deliuered to them as might serue their purpose; that bicause such old char|ters as they requested were not to be had, the abbat and moonks looked euerie houre when their house should be set on fire and burnt ouer their heads. The prior and certeine other as well moonks as laie men that were seruants to the abbat, fled for feare of the rage of those misgouerned people, knowing that they hated them deadlie, and therefore looked for no cour|tesie at their hands. They had obteined the kings let|ters vnto the abbat, commanding him to deliuer vn|to them such charters as they had giuen information to be remaining in his hands, so that vnder colour thereof, they called for those writings in most impor|tunate wise, threatning sore, if they were not brought to light, vtterlie to destroie the house by setting it on fire.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to speake of all the vnrulie parts of those vn|rulie people, it were too long a processe: yet at length after they vnderstood how their grand capteine and chéefe ringleader Wat Tiler was slaine, they be|gan somewhat to asswage their presumptuous at|tempts, the rather for that there came a knight with the kings letter of protection in behalfe of the abbat and his house, and yet they were not so calmed, but that they continued in requiring to haue chapters made to them by the abbat, of the like forme and ef|fect [...]o that which the king had made, concerning the infranchising them from bondage, whereby they that obteined such charters tooke themselues to be dis|charged of all seruices and accustomed labors, so that they meant not to doo any further works, nor yeeld such customes as before time they vs [...]allie had béene accustomed to doo and yéeld vnto their landlords.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Neither did the townesmen of S. Albons, and the tenants of other townes and villages thereabout, that belonged to the abbeie of S. Albons, thus outra|giouslie misdemeane themselues, but euerie where else the commons kept such like stur, so that it was rightlie called the hurling time,The hurting time. there were such hur|lie burlies kept in euerie place, to the great danger of ouerthrowing the whole state of all good gouern|ment in this land. For euen the selfe same saturdaie after Corpus Christi day, in Suffolke there were got togither to the number of fiftie thousand men, by the setting on of Iohn Wraw, a naughtie lewd priest, that had beene first among the Essexmen at Lon|don,The [...] of the Su|folke rebels. and was sent downe in all post hast from Wat Tiler, to stir the commons in those parts to commit the like mischéefe as he had séene begun about Lon|don. These fellowes therfore, after they were assem|bled togither, fell to the destroieng of the manors and houses of men of law, & such lawiers as they caught, they slue, and beheded sir Iohn Cauendish lord chiefe iustice of England,Sir Iohn Cauendish lord chiefe iustice be|headed. and set his head vpon the pillorie in the market place in S. Edmunsdburie.

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