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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The cardinall hauing thus taken the examinati|on on of Kneuet, [...] went vnto the king, and declared vnto him, that his person was in danger by such traito|rous purpose, as the duke of Buckingham had con|ceiued in his heart, and shewed how that now there is manifest tokens of his wicked pretense: where|fore, he exhorted the king to prouide for his owne suertie with speed. The king hearing the accusation, inforced to the vttermost by the cardinall, made this answer; If the duke haue deserued to be punished, let him haue according to his deserts. The duke her|vpon was sent for vp to London, & at his comming thither, [...] was streightwaies attached, and brought to the Tower by sir Henrie Marneie, capteine of the gard, the sixtéenth of Aprill. There was also atta|ched the foresaid Chartreux monke, maister Iohn de la Car aliàs de la Court, the dukes confessor, and sir Gilbert Perke priest, the dukes chancellor.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After the apprehension of the duke, inquisitions were taken in diuerse shires of England of him; Anno Reg. 13. so that by the knights and gentlemen, he was indicted of high treason, for certeine words spoken (as before ye haue heard) by the same duke at Blechinglie,The duke of Buckingham [...] of [...]nion. to the lord of Aburgauennie: and therewith was the same lord attached for concelement, and so likewise was the lord Montacute, and both led to the Tower. Sir Edward Neuill, brother to the said lord of A|burgauennie, was forbidden the kings presence. Moreouer, in the Guildhall, within the citie of Lon|don, before Iohn Brugge knight, then lord maior of the same citie, by an inquest whereof one Miles Gerrard was foreman, the said duke was indicted of diuerse points of high treason, as by the same indic|ment it appeareth.

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