Thus euerie man in his office readie to doo the execution,Iudgement vpon Kneuet to lose his hand. there was called foorth sir William Pic|kering knight marshall, to bring in the said Ed|mund Kneuet; and when he was brought to the bar, the chiefe iustice declared to him his trespasse, and the said Kneuet confessing himselfe to be giltie, humblie submitted him to the kings mercie: for this offense he was not onelie iudged to lose his hand, but also his bodie to remaine in prison, and his lands and goods at the kings pleasure. Then the said sir Ed|mund Kneuet desired that the king of his benigne grace would pardon him of his right hand,He is par|doned. and take the left, for (quoth he) if my right hand be spared, I maie hereafter doo such good seruice to his grace, as shall please him to appoint. Of this submission and request the iustices foorthwith informed the king, who of his goodnesse, considering the gentle heart of the said Edmund, and the good report of the lords, gran|ted him his pardon, that he should lose neither hand, lands, nor goods, but should go frée at libertie.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lord Leonard Greie being indicted of cer|teine points of treason by him committed, as was alledged against him, during the season that he was the kings lieutenant in Ireland, to wit, for deliue|ring his nephew Girald Fitzgerard brother vnto Thomas Fitzgerard before executed, and also for that he caused certeine Irishmen to inuade the lands of the kings friends, whome he fauoured not: on the fiue and twentith of Iune he was arreigned at Westminster in the kings bench, and appointed to be tried by knights, because he was a lord by name, and no lord of the parlement; but he discharged the iurie, and confessed the indictement, wherevpon he had iudgement, and on the eight and twentith of Iune being saint Peters euen, he was beheaded at tower hill,The lord Le|onard Greie beheaded. where he ended his life verie quietlie and godlie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This noble man as he was come of high linage, so was he a right valiant and hardie personage, ha|uing in his time doone his prince and countrie good seruice, both in Ireland, France, and other pla|ces, EEBO page image 954 greatlie to his commendation, although now his hap was thus to loose his head, as conuicted by law, and his renowme (ouercast with a cloud of dis|grace) vanished, as future chances befell, to the abo|lishing of the present honor which sometime he in|ioied. Howbeit, his estimation he might haue pre|serued vnblemished, had prouident circumspecti|on vndertaken the direction of his dooings, and that he had borne his eies in his forehead, to foresee all af|terclaps, which a wise man will in no case neglect:

Nam sapiens in fronte oculos habet, omnia spectans,

Omnia prudenti cum ratione videns.