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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At the suit of the ladie Katharine Dowager, a cursse was sent from the pope,A cursse pro|cured from the pope. which curssed both the king and the realme. This cursse was set vp in the towne of Dunkirke in Flanders (for the bringer thereof durst no nearer approch) where it was taken downe by one William Locke a mercer of London. Bicause it was knowne that the ladie Katharine Dowager had procured this cursse of the pope, all the order of the court was broken: for the duke of Suffolke being sent to hir then lieng at Bugden beside Huntingdon, according to that he had in commandement, discharged a great sort of hir household seruants, and yet left a conuenient number to serue hir like a princesse, which were sworne to serue hir not as queene, but as princesse Dowager. Such as tooke that oth she vtterlie refused, and would none of their seruice, so that she remained with the lesse number of seruants about hir.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After Christmas the parlement began, [...]534 wherein the forenamed Elizabeth Barton and other hir com|pli [...]es were attainted of treason,Elizabeth Barton at|tainted. for sundrie practised deuises and tales by them aduanced, put in vre, and [...]old, sounding to the vtter reproch, perill, and de|struction of the kings person, his honour, fame and dignitie: for they had of a diuelish intent put in the heads of manie of the kings subiects; that to the said Elizabeth Barton was giuen knowledge by reue|lation from God and his saints, that if the king pro|céeded to the diuorse, and maried another, he should not be king of this realme one moneth after, and in the reputation of God not one daie nor houre.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This Elizabeth first through sickenesse, being of|tentimes brought as it were into a transe, whereby hir visage and countenance became maruellouslie altered at those times when shee was so vexed, at length, by the incouraging, procurement, and infor|mation of the forenamed Richard Master person of Aldington, she learned to counterfeit such maner of transes (after she came to perfect health) as in hir sickenes by force of the disease she had bene acquain|ted with: so that she prac [...]sed, vsed, and shewed vnto the people diuerse maruellous and sundre alterati|ons of the sensible parts of hir bodie, craftilie vtte|ring in hir said feigned and false transes, diuerse and manie counterfeit, vertuous, and holie words, tending to the re [...]uke of sin, and reproouing of such new opinions as then began to rise.

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