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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Namelie, that the said duke intending to exalt him|selfe,The effect of the dukes [...]. and to vsurpe the crowne, the roiall power, and dignitie of the realme of England, and to depriue the kings maiestie thereof, that he the said duke might take vpon him the same; against his allegi|ance, had the tenth daie of March, in the second yéere of the kings maiesties reigne,The duke is [...] of [...] in Lon|don. and at diuerse other times before and after, imagined and compassed the kings death and destruction at London, & at Thorne|burie, in the countie of Glocester. And for the accom|plishment of his wicked intent and purpose (as in the indictment is alledged) the twentie and fourth daie of Aprill,Thus [...] had sent [...] of the [...] of Hentons [...] to the duke the [...], to [...] him to [...] ouer to [...] his chan|cellor, as by [...] other i| [...]ment ap| [...]ereth. in the fourth yéere of the kings reigne he sent one of his chapleins called Iohn de la Court, to the priorie of Henton in Summersetshire, which was an house of the Chartreux monks. The effect or substance of whose message was, to vnderstand of one Nicholas Hopkins, a monke of the same house (who was vainelie reputed by waie of reuelation to haue foreknowledge of things to come) what should happen concerning the matters which he had imagi|ned. Which monke, causing the said de la Court first to sweare vnto him, not to disclose his words to a|nie maner of person, but onelie to the duke his mai|ster: therewith declared, that his maister the said duke should haue all, willing him for the accomplish|ment of his purpose, to séeke to win the fauour of the people. De la Court came backe with this answer, and told it to the duke at Thorneburie the morrow after, being the twentie fift of Aprill.

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