In this yeare the emperour gaue to the lord ma|ster of saint Iohnes of Ierusalem, and his brethren the Iland of Malta lieng betwéene Sicill and Bar|barie, there to imploie themselues vpon Christs eni|mies, which lord master had no place sure to inhabit there, since he was put frõ the Rhodes by the Turke that besieged Uienna, but missed of his expectation. For the christians defended the same so valiantlie a|gainst the said Turke and his power,The number of the Turks that died at the siege of Uienna. that he lost manie of his men by slaughter; manie also miscar|ried by sicknesse and cold: so that there perished in all to the number of fourescore thousand men, as one of his bassats did afterward confesse, which was to him a great displeasure; and in especiallie bicause he neuer besieged citie before, but either it was yéel|ded or taken. In the time of this siege a metrician did make these two verses in memorie of the same:

Caesar in Italiam quo venit Carolus anno,

Cincta est ripheis nostra Vienna Getis.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the beginning of this yeare was the hauing and reading of the new testament in English tran|slated by Tindall, Ioie, and others, Anno. Reg. 2 [...]. The new te|stament tran|slated into English. forbidden by the king with the aduise of his councell, and namelie the bishops, which affirmed that the same was not trulie translated, and that therein were prologs and prefaces sounding to heresie, with vncharitable railing against bishops and the cleargie. The king therefore commanded the bishops, that they calling to them the best learned men of the vniuersities, should cause a new translation to be made, that the people without danger might read the same for their better instruction in the lawes of God, and his holie word. Diuerse persons that were detected to vse reading of the new testament, and other bookes in English set foorth by Tindall, and such other as were fled the realme, were punished by order taken a|gainst them by sir Thomas Moore then lord chancel|lor, who held greatlie against such bookes, but still the number dailie increased.

¶ In this yeare in Maie, Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cxci [...] the bishop of London EEBO page image 914 caused all his new testaments which he had bought with manie other bookes,Tindals te|staments burned. to be brought into Paules churchyard in London, and there were openlie bur|ned. In the end of this yeare, the wild Irishmen, knowing the earle of Kildare to be in England, en|tered his land,The wild I|rish spoile the earle of Kil|dares coun|trie, &c. and spoiled and burnt his countrie, with diuerse other countries. And the erle of Osserie being the kings deputie made little resistance, for lacke of power. Wherfore the king sent the earle of Kildare into Ireland, & with him sir William Ske|uington knight, master of the kings ordinance, and diuerse gunners with him, which so politikelie orde|red themselues, that their enimies were glad to of|fer amends, and to treat for truce: & so sir William Skeuington the next yeere returned into England, leauing there the earle of Kildare for the kings de|putie.