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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the end of Maie began in the citie of London the disease called the sweating sickenesse,The sweating sickenesse, whereof died both courtiers and others. which af|terwards infected all places of the realme, and slue manie within fiue or six houres after they sickened. This sickenesse, for the maner of the taking of the pa|tients, was an occasion of remembring that great sweat which raged in the reigne of this kings grand|father; and happilie men caused the same remedie then vsed to be reuiued. By reason of this sickenesse, the tearme was adiourned, and the circuit of the as|sises also. There died diuerse in the court of this sick|nesse, as sir Francis Poins, which had béene am|bassadour in Spaine, and diuerse others. The king for a space remooued almost euerie daie till he came to Tintinhangar, a place of the abbat of saint Al|bons, and there he with the quéene, and a small com|panie about them, remained till the sickenesse was past. In this great mortalitie died sir William Compton knight, and William Carew esquier;Sir William Compton. which were of the kings priuie chamber.

¶A prisoner brake from the sessions hall at New|gate when the sessions was doone, Abr. Fl. ex [...] pag 959. A prisoner brake frõ the sessions house. Register of Greie friers. which prisoner was brought downe out of Newgate in a basket, he séemed so weake: but now in the end of the sessions he brake thorough the people vnto the Greie friers church, and there was kept six or seauen daies yer the shiriffes could speake with him, and then bicause he would not abiure and aske a crowner, with vio|lence they tooke him thense, and cast him againe in prison, but the law serued not to hang him.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Ye heaue heard how the people talked a little be|fore the cardinals going ouer into France the last yeare,DoctorLong|land bishop of Lincolne. that the king was told by doctor Longland bi|shop of Lincolne and others, that his mariage with queene Katharine could not be good nor lawfull. The truth is, that whether this doubt was first mooued by the cardinall, or by the said Longland, being the kings confessor, the king was not onelie brought in doubt, whether it was a lawfull marriage or no; but also determined to haue the case examined, cléered, and adiudged by learning, law, and sufficient autho|ritie.Why the car|dinall was suspected to be against the marriage. The cardinall verelie was put in most blame for this scruple now cast into the kings conscience, for the hate he bare to the emperor, bicause he would not grant to him the archbishoprike of Toledo, for the which he was a suter. And therefore he did not onlie procure the king of England to ioine in fréend|ship with the French king, but also sought a diuorse betwixt the king and the quéene, that the king might haue had in marriage the duchesse of Alanson, sister vnto the French king: Polydor. and (as some haue thought) he trauelled in that matter with the French king at Amiens, but the duchesse would not giue eare therevnto.

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