Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to auoid danger of tumult that might be rai|sed, if a prince so well beloued of the people should be openlie executed; his enimies determined to worke their feats in his destruction, yer he should haue anie warning. For effecting whereof, a parlement was summoned to be kept at Berrie, A parlement at saint Ed|m [...]ndesburie. whither resorted all the péeres of the realme, and amongst them the duke of Glocester; which on the second daie of the session was by the lord Beaumont, then high constable of England, accompanied with the duke of Bucking|ham, and others, arrested, apprehended, and put in ward, and all his seruants sequestred from him, and thirtie two of the chéefe of his retinue were sent to di|uerse prisons, to the great admiration of the people. The duke the night after he was thus committed to prison,The duke of Glocester sud|denlie mur|thered. being the foure and twentith of Februarie, was found dead in his bed, and his bodie shewed to the lords and commons, as though he had died of a palsie, or of an imposteme.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Ed [...]. Hall. But all indifferent persons (as saith Hall) might well vnderstand that he died of some violent death. Some iudged him to be strangled, some affirme that an hot spit was put in at his fundament, other write that he was smouldered betweene two featherbeds, and some haue affirmed that he died of verie gréefe, for that he might not come openlie to his answer. His dead corpse was conueied to saint Albons, and there buried. After his death, none of his seruants suffered: although fiue of them, to wit, sir Roger Chamberline knight, Middleton, Herbert, Arteise es|quiers, and Richard Nedham gentleman, were ar|reigned, condemned, and drawen to Tiborne, where they were hanged, let downe quicke, and stripped to haue béene bowelled and quartered but the marques of Suffolke comming at that instant brought their pardons,A pardon at a pinch. shewed the same openlie, and so their liues were saued.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Dukes of Glocester [...]fortunate.Some thinke that the name and title of Gloce|ster hath béene vnluckie to diuerse, which for their ho|nours haue béene erected by creation of princes to that stile and dignitie, as Hugh Spenser, Thomas of Woodstoke, sonne to king Edward the third, and this duke Humfreie: which three persons by misera|ble death finished their daies; and after them king Ri|chard the third also, duke of Glocester in ciuill warre slaine. So that this name duke of Glocester is taken for an vnhappie stile, as the prouerbe speaketh of Se|ians horsse, whose rider was euer vnhorssed, & whose possessor was euer brought to miserie. But suerlie, by the pitifull death of this noble duke and politike gouernour, the publike wealth of the realme came to great decaie, as by sequele here may more at large appeare.