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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus hauing put the quéene in a vaine hope of that which was nothing so, they departed from thence vnto Wallingford, and after to Abington, intising the people by all meanes possible vnto rebellion, all the waie as they went, and sending their agents a|broad for the same purpose: at length they came to Circester in the darke of the night, and tooke vp their lodgings. The inhabitants of that towne suspecting the matter, and iudging (as the truth was) these ru|mors which the lords spred abroad to be but dreams, they tooke therevpon counsell togither, got them to armor, and stopped all the entries and outgates of the Innes where these new ghestes were lodged, inso|much that when they about midnight secretlie at|tempted to haue come foorth, and gone their waies, the townesmen with bow and arrowes were readie to staie them, and keepe them in. The lords percei|uing the danger, got them to their armor and wea|pons, and did their best by force to breake through and repell the townesmen. But after they had fought from midnight till three of the clocke in the after|noone of the next daie, and perceiued they could not preuaile,The lords yeeld them|selues. they yeelded themselues to the townesmen, beseeching them to haue their liues saued, till they might come to the kings presence.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This request they had obteined, if a préest that was chapleine to one of them,A priest set fire on the houses of Circester. had not in the meane time set fire vpon certeine houses in the towne, to the end that whiles the townesmen should busie themselues to quench the fire, the lords might find meanes to es|cape. But it came nothing to passe as he imagined, for the townesmen leauing all care to saue their hou|ses from the rage of the fire, were kindled more in furie towards the lords, and so to reuenge them|selues of them they brought them foorth of the abbeie where they had them in their hands, and in the twi|light of the euening, Abr. Fl. out of Tho. Wal [...]in. pag. 404. stroke off their heads. ¶ The earle of Salisburie (saith Thomas Walsingham) who in all his life time had béene a fauourer of the Lol|lards or Wickleuists, a despiser of images, a con|temner of canons, and a scorner of the sacraments, ended his daies (as it was reported) without the He died vn|confessed. sa|crament of confession. These be the words of Thom. Wals. which are set downe, to signifie that the earle of Salisburie was a bidden gh [...]st to blockham feast with the rest: and (as it should séeme by his relation) the more maligned, bicause he was somwhat estran|ged frõ the corruption of the religion then receiued, and leaued to a sect pursued with spitefulnesse and re|uenge.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Iohn Holland earle of Huntington (as Thomas Walsingham writeth) was not with the lords at the castell of Windsore,The lords beheaded. but staied about London to be|hold the end of his businesse: and hearing bow the ma [...]ter went farre contrarie to that he wished, be sought to flie by sea; but not able to get awaie, by rea|son the wind being contrarie would not permit him, he tooke his horsse, and hauing a knight with him cal|led sir Iohn S [...]ellie, Chr. S. Alb. he road into Essex, attempting to haue fled from thence by sea: but still the wind was so against him, that he was continuallie driuen backe when he was about to make saile, and so com|ming againe to land,The earle at Huntington taken. he was taken one euening at Pitwell in Essex, in a mill (that belonged to one of his trustie freends) as he sat there at supper, togither with the said sir Iohn Shellie. The commons of the countrie that tooke him, brought him first to Chel|mesford, and after to Plashie, where on the daie of S. Maure, that is the fiftéenth of Ianuarie,He is be|headed. about sun setting he was beheaded, in the verie place in which the duke of Glocester was arrested by king Richard. He confessed with lamentable repentance (as wri|ters doo record) that diuers & manie waies he had of|fended God and his prince, bicause that vnderstan|ding the purpose of the other lords, he had not reuea|led the same.

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