The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 440)

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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the same time also, when the archbishop of Canturburie sate in iudgement vpon a processe that was framed against one Iohn Aston,The Londo|ners [...] of Wicliffes doctrine. a maister of art, that was an earnest follower of Wicliffes doctrine, the Londoners brake open the doores, where the archbishop with his diuines sate, and caused them to giue ouer, so that they durst procéed no further in that matter. The same yéere were the fishmoongers of London sore disquieted by the foresaid maior,The fishmoon|gers sore tr [...]+bled by the maior. who sought to infringe their liberties, granting licence to forreners to come and sell all manner of fish, as freelie and more fréelie than any of the companie of fishmoongers: for they might not buie it at the forre|ners hands to sell it againe by any meanes, and so that companie which before had beene accompted one of the chiefest in the citie, was now so brought downe, as it séemed to be one of the meanest, being compelled to confesse, that their occupation was no craft, nor worthie so to be accompted amongst other the crafts of the citie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this yeare, the one and twentith of Maie being wednesdaie, a great earthquake chanced about one of the clocke in the after noone; it was so vehement,

A great earth+quake.

Churches o|uerthrowne by the earth|quake.

and namelie in Kent, that the churches were shaken therewith in such wise, that some of them were ouer|throwen to the ground. On the saturdaie after, be|ing the foure and twenti [...]h day of Maie, earelie in the morning, chanced an other earthquake, or (as some write) a watershake, being of so vehement & vi|olent a motion,A wa [...]er|quake. that it made the ships in the hauens to beat one against the other, by reason wherof they were sore brused by such knocking togither, to the great woonder of the people, who being amazed at such strange tokens, stood a long time after in more awe of Gods wrath and displeasure than before, for these so strange and dreadfull woonders thus shewed amongst them: howbeit when these terrors were for|gotten, they followed their former dissolutenes, from the which for a time they were withdrawne through feare of Gods heuie hand hanging ouer their heads; but afterward like swine they wallowed afresh in their puddels of pollusions, & as dogs licked vp their filthie vomit of corruption and naughtinesse, for

Sordida natura semper sequitur sua iura.