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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The eight of August was the ladie Katharine Howard néece to the duke of Norffolke, and daugh|ter EEBO page image 953 to the lord Edmund Howard shewed openlie as quéene at Hampton court.P [...]lots cause [...] mur| [...]rs. The eleuenth of Sep|tember a stranger was hanged in Moorefield, na|med Iames Rinatian, who had slaine his maister, one Capon a Florentine in a garden, for his harlot. In the latter end of this summer, was vniuersallie through the most parts of this realme great death by a strange kind of hot agues and fluxes, [...] death and [...] [...]ought. I. [...]. and some pestilence, in which season was such a drought, that wels and small riuers were cleane dried vp, so that much cattell died for lacke of water, and the Thames was so shalow, & the fresh water of so small strength that the salt water flowed aboue London bridge, till the raine had increased the fresh waters.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the two and twentith of September, Rafe Egerton, seruant to the lord Audleie, lord chancel|lor, and one Thomas Harman seruant to one master Flightwood, were drawne, hanged, and quartered, the one for counterfeiting and antidating of the kings seale in a sign [...]t, wherewith he sealed licen|ces for deuizens, vnder the name of the clearkes of the chancerie: and the other, that is to saie Harman, for writing them. One Tuckefield, being of their faction, robbed the lord Audleies chappell and fled, who being afterward apprehended at Calis, which towne he would haue betraied, he slue himselfe with a dagger. In the end of this yeare, the French king made a strong castell at Ard,A Castell built [...] Ard. and also a bridge ouer into the English pale, which bridge the crew of Calis did beat downe, and the Frenchmen built it vp a|gaine, but the Englshmen beat it downe againe. After this, the K. sent about fiftéene hundred worke|men to fortifie the towne of Guisnes,Guisnes fortified. and sent with them fiue hundred men of warre to gard them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 It was reported in France, that a mightie ar|mie was come ouer foorth of England with great ordinance: which brute caused the French king to send to the frontiers of Picardie the duke of Uan|dosme, and other capteins with all spéed to defend the same. The king of England hearing thereof, sent the earles of Surrie, and Southampton, and the lord Russell,The earles of Surrie and Southamton sent to Calis. high admerall into the marches of Calis, to set order there, and after them he likewise sent two hundred light horssemen of the borders of Scotland, whom the Frenchmen called Stradiots. The lords hauing set order in things, shortlie returned. A boie, oneRichard Mekins, not past fiftéene yeares of age, was burnt in Smithfield,Richard Me|kins burnt. Sée Iohn Fox in the Acts & Monuments. for speaking against the sacrament, and contrarie to the statute of the six ar|ticles. The bishop of London was thought in great fault, for procuring that terrible execution, seeing the yoong fellow was but an ignorant foole without learning, and gladlie recanted that wherewith he was charged.

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