Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 These so good and wholesome ordinances shortlie after were defeated by meanes of bribes giuen vnto the cardinall: for when the nobles and gentlemen,Bribes. which had for their pleasures imparked the common fields, were loth to haue the same againe disparked, they redéemed their vexation with good sommes of monie; and so had licence to keepe their parks and grounds inclosed as before. Thus the great expecta|tion which men had conceiued of a generall redresse, prooued void: howbeit, some profit the husbandmen in some parts of the realme got by the moouing of this matter, where inclosures were alreadie laid o|pen, yer mistresse monie could preuent them; and so they inioied their commons, which before had beene taken from them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After that this matter for inclosures was thus dispatched,The cardina [...] deuiseth the destruction of the duke of Bucking|ham. the cardinall boiling in hatred against the duke of Buckingham, & thirsting for his bloud, deuised to make Charles Kneuet, that had beene the dukes surueior, and put from him (as ye haue heard) an instrument to bring the duke to destruction. This Kneuet being had in examination before the cardi|nall, disclosed all the dukes life. And first he vttered, that the duke was accustomed by waie of talke, to saie, how he meant so to vse the matter, that he would atteine to the crowne, if king Henrie chan|ced to die without issue: & that he had talke and con|ference of that matter on a time with George Ne|uill, lord of Aburgauennie, vnto whome he had giuen his daughter in marriage; and also that he threatned to punish the cardinall for his manifold misdooings, being without cause his mortall enimie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The cardinall hauing gotten that which he sought for, incouraged, comforted, and procured Kneuet,The [...] imboider [...] Kneuet a|gainst the duke. with manie comfortable words and great promises, that he should with a bold spirit and countenance obiect and laie these things to the dukes charge, with more if he knew it when time required. Then Kneuet EEBO page image 863 partlie prouoked with desire to be reuenged, and part|lie mooued with hope of reward, openlie confessed, that the duke had once fullie determined to deuise meanes how to make the king away, being brought into a full hope that he should be king, by a vaine prophesie which one Nicholas Hopkins, a monke of an house of the Chartreux order beside Bristow, cal|led Henton, sometime his confessor had opened vnto him.