Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The thirtith of March was the parlement proro|ged, and there euerie lord, knight, and burges,The lords sworne to the succession. and all other were sworne to the act of succession, and sub|scribed their hands to a parchment fixed to the same. The parlement was proroged till the third of No|uember next. After this were commissioners sent into all parts of the realme, to take the oth of all men and women to the act of succession. Doctor Iohn Fisher, and sir Thomas More knight, and doctor Nicholas Wilson parson of saint Thomas apostles in London, expreslie denied at Lambeth before the archbishop of Canturburie, to receiue that oth. The two first stood in their opinion to the verie death (as after ye shall heare) but doctor Wilson was better aduised at length, and so dissembling the matter es|caped out of further danger.

¶In this yéere it chanced that two merchant stran|gers fell in loue with a harlot, Ab. Fl. ex Edw. Hall 224 Woolfes wife a notable harlot. which was called Woolfes wife, and this harlot had often hanted the strangers chambers. And so on a time the said harlot appointed these strangers to come to Westminster, and she had prepared for them a bote, in the which bote was but one man to row which was a strong theefe, and in the end of the bote laie Woolfe hir husband, couered with a leather that botemen vse to couer their cushins with, and so these strangers sat them down mistrusting nothing. Now when this boteman had brought them as farre as a place called the tur|ning tree, suddenlie stepped vp the said Woolfe,The end of vnlawful loue and lust. and with his dagger thrust the one of them through: the other cried out to safe his life, and offred great sums of monie to the boteman and him to saue his life. But no proffers would be heard, nor mercie would they extend, but as cruell murtherers without pitie slue the other also, and bound them face to face, and so threw them into the Thames in the foresaid place, where they were long after before they were [...]ound. But immediatlie the harlot Woolfes wife went to the strangers chambers,The reward of murther committed through co|uetousnesse. & tooke from thence so much as she could come by. And at the last she and hir hus|band (as they deserued) were apprehended, arreigned, and hanged at the aforesaid turning trée.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the ninth of Iulie was the lord Dacres of the north arreigned at Westminster of high trea|son, Anno Reg. 26. The lord Da|cres of the north ar|reigned. where the duke of Norffolke sate as iudge and high steward of England. The said lord Dacres be|ing brought to the barre, with the axe of the Tower before him, after his indictment read, so improoued the same, answering euerie part and matter therein conteined, and so plainlie and directlie confuted his accusers, which were there readie to auouch their ac|cusations, that to their great shames, and his high honor, he was found that day by his péeres not guil|tie, whereof the commons not a little reioised, as by their shout and crie made at those words, not guiltie, they fréelie testified.