The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 436)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Although the kings authoritie thus began to shew it selfe, to the terror of rebels; yet the commons of Essex eftsoones assembled themselues togither,The cõmons of Essex re|bell afresh. not far from Hatfield Peuerell, and sent to the king to know of him if his pleasure was, that they should in|ioy their promised liberties: and further, that they might be as frée as their lords, and not to come to a|ny court, except it were to the great léet, twise in the yeare. When the king heard such presumptuous re|quests, he was in a great chafe, & dispatched the mes|sengers awaie, with a sore threatning answer, saieng that bondmen they were, and bondmen they should be, and that in more vile manner than before, to the terrible example of all other that should attempt any the like disorders: and foorthwith, the earle of Buc|kingham, and the lord Thomas Percie, brother to the earle of Northumberland,The rebels of Essex are sc [...]+tered & slaine. were sent with an armie to represse those rebels, whome they found fortified within woods, hedges and ditches verie stronglie, but with small adoo they were put to flight, & about fiue hundred of them slaine; the residue saued themselues as well as they might, by succour of the woods. There were eight hundred horsses also taken, which those rebels had there with them, to draw and carrie their baggage.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Those of the rebels that escaped, were not yet so tamed by that ouerthrow, but that assembling them|selues togither in a rowt, they made towards Col|chester: and comming thither, would haue persuaded the townesmen to haue ioined with them in a new rebellion. But when they could not bring their pur|pose to passe, they marched towards Sudburie. The lord Fitz Walter, and sir Iohn Harleston, vnder|standing which waie they tooke, followed them with a companie of armed men, and suddenlie setting vpon them as they were making their proclamations, slue of them so manie as it liked them, and the other they saued, and suffered to depart, or else committed them to prison. After this, the king came to Hauering at the bowre, and from thence to Chelmisford, where he appointed sir Robert Trisilian to sit in iudgement of the offendors and rebels of that countrie, wherevpon an inquest being chosen, a great number were indi|ted, arreigned, & found giltie, so that vpon some one gallowes there were nine or ten hanged togither.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 In euerie countrie were like inquiries made,

Fabian.

The rebels executed in euerie lord|ship.

and the chéefe offendors apprehended and put to death in euerie lordship through the realme, where anie of them were detected, by ten, twelue, twentie, thirtie, yea and in some places by fortie at once; so that the whole number grew to fifteene hundred and aboue. At the first, when the kings iustices began to sit in Essex, Kent, and at London, by reason of the multi|tude EEBO page image 437 that were to be executed, they onelie chopped off their heads, but afterwards when that kind of death seemed too close and secret for so open offenses, they proceeded according to the accustomed law of the realme, by condemning them to be drawne and hanged, and according thervnto they were executed. In the meane time,The king cal|leth in his let|ters of in|franchising granted to the bondmen. the king by the aduise of his councell, directed his letters reuocatorie into euerie countie there, to be proclamed in euerie citie, bor|row, towne, and place, as well within the liberties as without; by the which letters he reuoked, made void and frustrate his former letters of infranchising the bondmen of his realme, and commanded that such as had the same letters, should without delaie bring them in, and restore them to him and his councell to be cancelled, as they would answer vpon their faith and allegiance which they owght to him, and vpon paine of forfeiting all that they had. The date of which letters reuocatorie was at Chelmesford, the second daie of Iulie, in the fift yeare of his reigne.