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Thomas Spenser, saith Wal. & others. Hugh Spenser,
otherwise called earle of Glocester, as he would haue fled into Wales, was taken and carried to Bristow,
where (according to the earnest desires of the commons) he was behea|ded. Maudelen fléeing into
Scotland,
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was taken by the waie, and brought to the Tower. Manie other that were priuie to this conspiracie,
were taken, and put to death, some at Oxford, as sir Thomas Blunt, sir Benet Cilie knight,Execution. and Thomas Wintercell esquier; but sir Leonard Brokas, and sir Iohn Shel|lie knights,
Iohn Maudelen, and William Ferbie chapleins, were drawne, hanged,
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and beheaded at London. There were ninetéene in all executed in one place and other, and the heads
of the cheefe conspira|tors were set on polles ouer London bridge, to the terror of others. Shortlie after,
the abbat of West|minster, in whose house the conspiracie was begun (as is said) gooing betweene his
monasterie & man|sion, for thought fell into a sudden palsie,The abbat of
Westminster dieth suddẽlie. Thom. Wal [...].
and shortlie after, without speech, ended his life. The bishop of Carleill was impeached, and
condemned of the same conspiracie; but the king of his mercifull clemencie,
The bishop of Carleill dieth through feare, or rather tho|rough gr [...]fe of mind, to [...] the wicked prosper as he tooke it.
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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus haue yee heard what writers haue recorded of this matter, with some difference betwixt them that write, how the king should haue béene made a|waie at a iusts; and other that testifie, how it should haue béene at a maske or mummerie: but whether they meant to haue dispatched hi [...] [...]t a mumming, or at a iusts, their purpose being reuealed by the earle of Rutland, they were brought to confusion (as be|fore yée haue heard.) And immediatlie after, king Henrie, to rid himselfe of anie such like danger to be attempted against him thereafter, caused king Ri|chard to die of a violent death, that no man should afterward faine himselfe to represent his person, though some haue said, he was not priuie to that wic|ked offense. The common fame is, that he was eue|rie daie serued at the table with costlie meat,The sundrie reports of K. Richar. death like a king, to the intent that no creature should suspect a|nie thing doone contrarie to the order taken in the parlement; and when the meat was set before him, he was forbidden once to touch it; yea, he was not permitted so much as to smell to it, and so he died of forced famine.
¶But Thomas Walsingham is so farre from impu|ting his death to compulsorie famine, Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wal [...]. pag. 4 [...], 4 [...]5. that he refer|reth it altogither to voluntarie pining of himselfe. For when he heard that the complots and attempts of such his fauourers, as sought his restitution, and their owne aduancement, adnihilated; and the chéefe agents shamefullie executed; [...]e tooke such a conceit at these misfortunes (for so Thomas Walsingham termeth them) and was so beaten out of bart, that wilfullie he starued himselfe, and so died in Pomfret EEBO page image 517 castell on S. Ualentines daie: a happie daie to him, for it was the beginning of his ease, and the ending of his paine: so that death was to him daintie and swéet, as the poet saith, and that verie well in bréefe,
Dulce mori miseris,C [...]n. Gall.Neque est melius morte in malis rebus.