Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earle of March his good seruice whilest he was deputie in Ireland. Wicliffes doc|trine.About the same time, the lord Edmund Mortimer earle of March, the kings lieutenant in Ireland, de|parted this life, after he had brought in manner all that land to peace and quiet, by his noble and pru|dent gouernement. In this season, Wicliffe set forth diuerse articles and conclusions of his doctrine, which the new archbishop of Canturburie, William Courtneie, latelie remooued from the sée of London, vnto the higher dignitie, did what he could by all shifts to suppresse, and to force such as were the set|ters foorth and mainteiners thereof, to recant, and vtterlie to renounce. What he brought to passe, in the booke of acts and monuments set foorth by mai|ster I. Fox, ye may find at large. The tuesday next af|ter the feast of saint Iohn Port latine, an other par|lement began, in which at the earnest sute and re|quest of the knights of the shires,Iohn Wraie. Iohn Wraie priest that was the chiefe dooer among the commons in Suffolke, at Burie, and Mildenhall, was adiudged to be drawen, and hanged, although manie beleeued, that his life should haue béene redeemed for some great portion of monie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 A lewd fellow that tooke vpon him to be skilfull in physicke and astronomie, caused it to be published thorough the citie of London, that vpon the Ascensi|on euen, there would rise such a pestilent planet, that all those which came abroad foorth of their chambers, before they had said fiue times the Lords praier, then commonlie called the Pater noster, and did not eate somewhat that morning, before their going foorth, should be taken with sicknesse, & suddenlie die there|of. Manie fooles beléeued him, and obserued his or|der; but the next day, when his presumptuous lieng could be no longer faced out, he was set on horsse|backe, with his face towards the taile, which he was compelled to hold in his hand in stéed of a bridle,A co [...]prophet serued aright. and so was led about the citie, with two iorden pots a|bout his necke, and a whetstone, in token that he had well deserued it, for the notable lie which he had made.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About the same time, certeine English ships of Rie,Ships of Rie win a good price. and other places, went to the sea, and meeting pirats, fought with them, and ouercame them, ta|king seuen ships, with thrée hundred men in them. One of those ships had béene taken from the Eng|lishmen afore time, and was called the falcon, be|longing to the lord William Latimer. They were all richlie laden with wine, wax, and other good mer|chandize. This yeare the maior of London Iohn de Northampton,Iohn de Northa [...] maio [...] o [...] L [...]|don, & [...] punis [...] [...] [...]|dulterie [...] [...]me. otherwise called Iohn de Comber|ton, did punish such as were taken in adulterie, ve|rie extremelie: for first he put them in the prison, cal|led the tunne, that then stood in Cornehill, and after caused the women to haue their haire cut, as théeues in those daies were serued that were appeachers of others, and so were they led about the stréets with trumpets & pipes going before them. Neither were the men spared more than the women, being put to manie open shames and reproches. But bicause the punishment of such offenses was thought rather to apperteine vnto the spirituall iurisdiction, than to the temporall, the bishop of London, and other of the cleargie, tooke it in verie euill part: but the maior be|ing a stout man, would not forbeare, but vsed his au|thoritie héerein to the vttermost.