Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When he had read this letter, or the chiefest part thereof, comprehending (as ye haue heard) much sedi|tious matter,In vndiscret preacher. he began with this sentence, Coelum coeli Domino, terram autem dedit filijs hominum, and vpon this text he intreated, how this land was giuen to Eng|lishmen. And as birds defend their nests, so ought Englishmen to cherish and mainteine themselues, and to hurt and grieue aliens for respect of their com|mon-wealth. And vpon this text Pugna pro patria, he brought in, how by Gods law it was lawfull to fight for their countrie. And thus he subtilie mooued or ra|ther vndiscréetlie prouoked the people to rebell a|gainst strangers. By this foolish sermon, manie a light person tooke courage, and openlie spake against strangers. And as vnhap would, there had béene di|uerse euill parts plaied of late by strangers, in and about the citie of London, which kindled the peoples rancour the more furiouslie against them.

Now as the diuell would, the sundaie after at Gréenwich in the kings gallerie was Francis de Bard, who (as yee haue heard) kept an Englishmans wife and his goods, and yet he could haue no remedie; and with him were Domingo, Anthonie Caueler, and manie more strangers, and there they talking with sir Thomas Palmer knight, iested and laughed how that Francis kept the Englishmans wife,Note the sa [...]|cie, brode, shamelesse, and dishonest boa|sting of the strangers in their lewdnes sai|eng that if they had the maiors wife of London they would kéepe hir. Sir Thomas said; Sirs you haue too much fauour in England. There were diuerse Eng|lish merchants by, who heard them laugh, and were not content, in so much as one William Bolt a mer|cer said; Well you whoreson Lombards, you reiois [...] and laugh, by the masse we will one daie haue a fling at you, come when it will. And that saieng the other merchants affirmed. This tale was reported about London, and the yoong and euill disposed people said they would be reuenged on the merchants strangers as well as on the artificers strangers. ¶On monday the morow after, the king remooued to his manor of Richmond.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the eight and twentith daie of Aprill, Anno Reg. 9. Strangers iniuriouslie abused of di|uerse yoon|kers. diuerse yoong men of the citie piked quarels to certeine strangers as they passed by the stréets, some they did strike, some they buffeted, and some they threw into the kennell: wherfore the maior sent some of the Eng|lishmen to prison, as Stephan Studleie skinner, Bets, Stephanson, and diuerse other. Then sudden|lie rose a secret rumour, and no man could tell how it began, that on Maie daie next the citie would re|bell and slea all the aliens, insomuch that diuerse strangers fled out of the citie. This brute ran so into euerie mans eares, that it came to the knowledge of the kings councell, wherevpon the lord cardinall sent for the maior, and other of the councell of the citie, gi|uing them to vnderstand what he had heard.