Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the same time, to wit, in the quindene of Easter,A parlement at Salisburie. a parlement of the nobles was holden at Salisburie, during the which an Irish frier of the or|der of the Carmelits, being a bacheler in diuinitie,An Irish frier appeacheth the duke of Lãca|ster of treason. exhibited to the king a bill against the duke of Lan|caster, charging him with heinous treasons: as that he meant vpon a sudden to destroie the king, and to vsurpe the crowne, shewing the time, the place, and circumstances of the whole contriued matter. The king being yoong both in yeares and discretion, when he had heard the friers information, called two of his chapleins vnto him, one sir Nicholas Slake, and an other, and asked their aduise what they thought good to be doone in such a weightie cause. Now as they were busie in talke about the same, the duke of Lancaster came into the kings chamber after his woonted manner, not vnderstanding anie thing of the matter wherof they were in talke. The king with a sterne countenance beheld the duke, not dooing him the honor that he was accustomed. The duke suspecting that the king had somewhat in his head that touched his person, withdrew. In the meane time those two that were thus in counsell with the king, fearing happilie the dukes power, or el [...]e vpon good will they [...]are towards him, persuaded the king that in anie wise he should call him, to see and heare what was laid to his charge.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The duke, after he had read the bill of his [...] on, made such answer, and so excused himselfe [...] de|claring his innocencie, that the king gaue credit to his words, and receiued his excuse. Herewith the duke besought the king, that the frier might be kept in safe gard, till the time came that he might purge himselfe of that he had charged him with; and that the lord Iohn Holland [...]he kings halfe brother might haue the custodie of him, till the day appointed that the duke should come to his full trial. The night be|fore which day, the said lord Holland, and sir Henrie Gréene knight, came to this frier, and putting a cord about his necke,A miserable & cruell torture. tied the other end about his priuie members, & after hanging him vp from the ground; laid a stone vp on his bellie, with the weight whereof, EEBO page image 446 and peise of his bodie withall, he was strangled and tormented, so as his verie backe bone burst in sun|der therewith, besides the straining of his priuie members: thus with thrée kind of tormentings he ended his wretched life. On the morow after, they caused his dead corps to be drawne about the towne, to the end it might appeare he had suffered worthilie for his great falshood & treason. Which extreame pu|nishment and exquisite kind of execution, had it not béene meritoriouslie inflicted vpon so impudent an offendor, had deserued perpetuall record of vnaccu|stomed crueltie, with this vehement exclamation,

O fera barbaries aeuo non nota priori,

Sed nec apud saeuos inuenienda Scythas.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 But now to the parlement. At length, when the K. had obteined of the laitie a grant of an halfe fiftéenth the same parlement was dissolued. In the summer following the borderers of England and Scotland made rodes ech into others countries,A rode into Scotland. to the great disquieting of both the realmes. Among other rodes that the Englishmen made, shortlie after Easter (as Froissard saith) the earles of Northumberland and Nottingham, raising an armie of 2000 speares, and six thousand archers, entered Scotland by Rockes|burgh, burnt the countrie euen to Edenburgh, and so returned without damage. In the meane time came messengers from the French king, to aduertise the Scots of the conclusion of the truce. But the Scots prouoked with this last inuasion made by the Englishmen into their countrie, would not heare of any truce, till they had in part reuenged their disple|sure vpon the Englishmen: and so with certeine men of armes of France,One mischief asketh ano|ther. that latelie before were come thither, not yet vnderstanding of any truce, they ro|ded into Northumberland, doing what mischiefe they might: so that for the summer season of this yeare, either part sought to indamage other (as Walsing|ham saith) though Froissard writeth, that through the earnest trauell of the messengers that came to inti|mate the abstinence of war taken, the parties now that their stomachs were well eased with the inter|change of indamaging either others confins, agréed to be quiet, and so the truce was proclamed in both realmes, and accordinglie obserued.