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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Anno Reg. 8. The duke of Lãcaster sent into France to treat of a peace.About the beginning of August in the eight yéere of this kings reigne, the duke of Lancaster went o|uer againe into France, to treat of peace; but after he ha [...] remained there a long time, & spent no small store of treasure, he returned with a truce, to indure onelie till the first daie of Maie then next insuing. While the duke of Lancaster was foorth of the relme, Iohn de Northampton,Iohn de Nor|thampton late maior of Lon|don cõdemned to perpetuall prison and all his goods con|fiscated. that had borne such rule in the citie of London whilest he was maior, and al|so after (as partlie ye haue heard) was accused by a chaplaine (that he had in his house) of seditious slurs, which he went about, so that being arreigned thereof, he was in the end condemned to perpetuall prison, and the same not to be within the space of one hun|dred miles at the least of the citie of London. All his goods were confiscated, and so he was sent to the ca|stell of Tintagill in Cornewall, and the Kings offi|cers [...] vpon his goods & cattels. ¶ About the feast of saint Martine, a parlement was called at Lon|don, in which, monie, was demanded of the cleargie and temporaltie, towards the maintenance of the kings [...],