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

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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About this season, Anno Reg. 6. the lord Richard Scroope lord chancellor was deposed from that roome, and the king receiuing the great seale at his hands, kept it a certeine time, and sealed therewith such grants and writings as it pleased him: at length,The bishop of Londõ made lord chanc [...]l|lor in the lord Scroope his roome. it was deliue|red to Robert Braibrooke bishop of London, who was made lord chancellor. The cause why the lord Scroope was remooued from that dignitie, was this. When the king vpon certeine respects had granted certeine gentlemen the lands and possessions that belonged to the late earle of March, and other that were deceassed (which he, during the time of their heires minorities, ought to inioy by the lawes of the EEBO page image 441 realme) the said lord chancellor refused to seale such grants, alledging that the king being greatlie in debt, which he was to discharge, stood in need of such profits himselfe, and therefore (as he said) he tooke not them for faithfull seruants, nor dutifull subiects to his grace, that respecting their owne priuat commo|ditie more than his or the realmes, did sue for such grants at his hands, aduising them to hold them|selues contented with such other things, as it had pleased or might please the king to bestow vpon them: for suerlie he would not consent, that they should inioy such gifts as those were. They that were thus reiected, made their complaint in such sort to the king, that he taking displeasure with the said lord Scroope, deposed him from his office, to the great offense both of the nobles and commons, by whose consent he was preferred vnto that dignitie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About Michaelmasse this yeare, certeine naugh|tie disposed persons in Norffolke,A new rebel|lion intended in Norffolke is b [...]wraied by one of the c [...]nspiracie be+fore. not warned by the successe of the late rebellion, went about a new commotion, intending to murther the bishop of Nor|wich, and all the nobles and gentlemen of that coun|trie. And to bring their wicked purpose the better to passe, they determined to haue assembled togither at S. Faithes faire, and to haue compelled all those that should haue béene present at the same faire, to haue taken part with them, or else to haue lost their liues: and this being doone, they would haue taken S. Benets abbeie at Holme, which they would haue kept for a fortresse, to haue withdrawne into vpon a|nie force that had beene against them. But yer they could bring their purpose to passe, one of the conspi|racie bewraieng the matter, they were taken, & lost their heads at Norwich, for their malicious deuises.