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

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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king re|mooueth to S. Albons.When the king had quieted the countie of Essex, and punished such as were the chéefe sturrers of that wicked commotion in those parts, he went to saint Albons, to sée iustice doone vpon such as had demea|ned themselues most presumptuouslie against the kings peace in that towne, namelie against the ab|bat and his house, who sought to defend themselues vnder a colour of fréendship, that they trusted to find in some persons about the king. But that trust deceiued them, and procured the more displeasure a|gainst them, for that they would not sue for fauour at the abbats hands in time, by submitting them|selues vnto his will and pleasure. To be breefe, the king came thither with a great number of armed men and archers, and caused his iustice sir Robert Trisilian to sit in iudgement vpon the malefactors, that were brought thither from Hertford gaile.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thither was brought also to the king from Couen|trie, Iohn Ball preest,Iohn Ball. whome the citizens of Couen|trie had taken, and now here at saint Albons they presented him to the kings presence, wherevpon he was arreigned and condemned, to be drawne, hang|ed, and headed for such notable treasons as he was there conuicted of. He receiued iudgement vpon the saturdaie the first daie that the said sir Robert Trisi|lian sat in iudgement, but he was not executed till the mondaie following. This man had beene a prea|cher the space of twentie yeares, and bicause his doc|trine was not according to the religion then by the bishops mainteined, he was first prohibited to preach in anie church or chappell; and when he ceassed not for all that, but set foorth his doctrine in the streets & fields where he might haue audience, at length he was committed to prison,Iohn Ball [...] prophesie. out of the which he prophesied that he should be deliuered with the force of twentie thousand men, and euen so it came to passe in time of the rebellion of the commons.