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Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this commandement giuen, in the euening,Euill Maie daie, as Edw. Hall noteth it. as sir Iohn Mundie (an alderman) came from his ward, and found two yoong men in Cheape plaieng at the bucklers, and a great manie of yoong men loo|king on them (for the commandement was then scarse knowne) he commanded them to leaue of. And for that one of them asked, why? he would haue had him to the Counter. Then all the yoong prentises stept to, and resisted the alderman, taking the yoong fellow from him, & cried; Prentises and clubs. Then EEBO page image 842 out at euerie doore came clubs and weapons. The al|derman fled and was in great danger.The heat of the hurlie burlie. Then more people arose out of euerie quarter, and foorth came seruingmen, watermen, courtiers, and others; so that by eleuen of the clocke, there were in Cheape, six or seuen hundred; and out of Paules churchyard came thrée hundred, which knew not of the other. So out of all places they gathered, & brake vp the coun|ters, tooke out the prisoners that the maior had thither committed for hurting the strangers, and came to Newgate, and tooke out Studleie and Petit com|mitted thither for that cause.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The maior and shiriffes were present there, and made proclamation in the kings name, but nothing was obeied.The raging madnesse of the mutiners. Herewith being gathered in plumpes, they ran thorough saint Nicholas shambles, and at saint Martins gate there met with them sir Tho|mas More, and others, desiring them to go to their lodgings. And as they were thus intreating, and had almost persuaded the people to depart, they within saint Martins threw out stones, bats, and hot water; so that they hurt diuerse honest persons that were there with sir Thomas More, persuading the rebelli|ous persons to ceasse, insomuch as at length one Ni|cholas Downes a sergeant of armes being there with the said sir Thomas More,Nicholas Downes sore hurt. & sore hurt amongst others, in a furie, cried; Downe with them. And then all the misruled persons ran to the [...]ores and win|dowes of the houses with saint Martins, and spoiled all that they found.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After that, they ran headlong into Cornehill, & there likewise spoiled diuerse houses of the French men that dwelled within the gate of maister Mew|tas house called Gréene gate. This maister Mewtas was a Picard borne, and reputed to be a great bea|rer of Frenchmen in their occupiengs and trades, contrarie to the lawes of the citie.The rioters malicious purpose a|gainst one Mewtas. If the people had found him, they would suerlie haue striken off his head: but when they found him not, the watermen and certeine yoong préests that were there fell to rif|ling, and some ran to Blanchapelton, and brake vp the strangers houses, and spoile [...] them. Thus from ten or eleuen of the clocke, these riotous people con|tinued in their outragious dooings till about three of the clocke, at what time they began to withdraw, and went to their places of resort: and by the waie they were taken by the maior and the heads of the citie, and sent some of them to the Tower, some to New|gate, and some to the Counters, to the number of thrée hundred.

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