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Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the king had knowledge of the chiefe cap|teins of this conspiracie (by the ouerture of his espi|als which were returned) he caused them to be appre|hended, and brought to London before his presence. Of the which the chiefe were Iohn Ratcliffe,The conspi|ring fa [...]tors of the coun|terfeit duke of Yorke. lord Fitz-Water, sir Simon Montford, sir Tho. Thwaits knights, William Daubeneie, Robert Ratcliffe, Thomas Cressenor, and Thomas Astwood. Also cer|teine preests & religious men, as sir William Rich|ford doctor of diuinitie, and sir Thomas Poines, both friers of saint Dominikes order, doctor William Sutton, sir William Worseleie deane of Paules, Robert Laiborne, and sir Richard Lesseie. Other which were guiltie, hearing that their fellowes were apprehended, fled and tooke sanctuarie. The other that were taken were condemned, of the which sir Simon Montford, Robert Ratcliffe, and William Daube|nie were beheaded.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Some had their pardons, and the préests also for their order sake; but yet few of them liued long af|ter. The lord Fitz-Water pardoned of life, was conueied to Calis, and there laid in hold, & after lost his head; bicause he went about to corrupt his kée|pers with rewards, that he might escape, intending (as was thought) to haue gone to Perkin. Abr. Flem. [Thus by EEBO page image 778 the policie and subtile deuise of the king, practised to the point by his espials, the sinewes of this conspira|cie was rent in sunder. So that the malicious ladie Margaret was not a little swolne with indignation when she saw the course of hir deuise (now that it had passed so far as that it was knowne to people on this side and beyond the seas) stopped, and the confede|racie (whereto she speciallie trusted) dissolued. Yet notwithstanding, as women will not (to die for it) giue ouer an enterprise, which of an enuious purpose they attempt; so she put hir irons afresh into the fier to set hir hatred forward: whome a while we will leaue at worke, and shew some dooings betwéene England and Flanders.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Henrie taking displeasure with the king of Romans, for that he kept not touch in aiding him a|gainst the French king, and partlie displeased with the Flemings, but speciallie with the ladie Marga|ret, for kéeping and setting forward Perkin War|becke,Flemish wares for|bidden. not onelie banished all Flemish wares and merchandizes out of his dominions, but also restrei|ned all English merchants from their repaire and traffike into anie of the lands and territories of the king of Romans, or of the archduke Philip, sonne to the same king of the Romans;The mart kept at Ca|lis. causing the mart to be kept at Calis, of all English merchandizes and commodities. Wherefore the said king and his sonne banished out of their lands and seigniories all Eng|lish clothes,English com|modities ba|nished out of Flanders. yarne, tin, lead, and other commodities of this realme. The restreint made by the king sore hin|dered the merchants aduenturers; for they had no oc|cupieng to beare their charges, and to support their credit withall.

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