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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Wherevpon, as well the said lord Dacres as those that were there with him, and diuerse other likewise that were appointed to go an other waie to méet them at the said parke,The lord Da|cres arreig|ned before the lord Audleie. were indicted of murther: and the seauen and twentith of Iune the lord Dacres himselfe was arreigned before the lord Audleie of Walden then lord chancellor, sitting that daie as high steward of England, with other péeces of the realme about him, who then and there condemned the said lord Dacres to die for that transgression. And afterward the nine and twentith of Iune being saint Peters daie, at eleuen of the clocke in the fore|noone, the shiriffs of London, accordinglie as they were appointed, were readie at the tower to haue re|ceiued the said prisoner, and him to haue lead to exe|cution on the tower hill. But as the prisoner should come forth of the tower, one Heire a gentleman of the lord chancellors house came, and in the kings name commanded to staie the execution till two of the clocke in the afternoone, which caused manie to thinke that the king would haue granted his par|don.Lord Dacres executed at Tiburne. But neuerthelesse, at three of the clocke in the same afternoone, he was brought forth of the tower, and deliuered to the shiriffs, who lead him on foot be|twixt them vnto Tiburne, where he died. His bodie was buried in the church of saint Sepulchers. He was not past foure and twentie yéeres of age, when he came through this great mishap to his end, for whome manie sore lamented, and likewise for the o|ther thrée gentlemen, Mantell, Frowds, and Roi|don. But for the sad yoong lord, being a right to|wardlie gentleman, and such a one, as manie had conceiued great hope of better proofe, no small mone and lamentation was made; the more indéed, for that it was thought he was induced to attempt such follie, which occasioned his death, by some light heads that were then about him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The first of Iulie a Welshman a minstrell was hanged and quartered for singing of songs, which were interpreted to be prophesies against the king. This summer the king tooke his progresse to Yorke,The king [...]|eth in pro|gresse into Yorkesh [...]re. and passed through Lincolneshire, where was made to him an humble submission by the temporaltie, and confessing their faults, they humblie thanked him for his pardon, which he had granted them.Gifts giue [...] to him by them of Lin|colneshire. The towne of Stanford gaue to him twentie pounds, the citie of Lincoln fortie pounds, Boston fiftie pounds, that part of the shire which is called Linscie gaue thrée hundred pounds, and Kesterne and the church of Lincolne presented him with fiftie pounds. At his entring into Yorkeshire, he was met with two hundred gentlemen of the same shire, in cotes of veluet, and foure thousand tall yeomen and seruing men well horssed, which on their knees made their submission, by the mouth of sir Robert Bowes, and gaue to the king nine hundred pounds. On Barnes|dale the archbishop of Yorke,Gifts giuen him by them of Yorkeshire. with thrée hundred priests and more met the king, and making a like submission, gaue to him six hundred pounds. The like submission was made by the maiors of Yorke, Newcastell, and Hull, and ech of them gaue to the king an hundred pounds.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After he had béene at Yorke twelue daies,Hull fortifie [...] he came to Hull, where he deuised certeine fortificati|ons. This doone, he passed ouer the water of Hum|ber, and so through Lincolneshire, returned toward the south parts, and at Alhallowen tide came to Hampton court. About the same time, the king had knowledge that the quéene liued dissolutelie, in v|sing the vnlawfull companie of one Francis Di|ram,Diram and Culpeper quéene Ka|tharins para|mours. with whome she had beene too familiar before hir maraiage with the king; & not meaning to for|go his companie now in time of hir marriage, with|out regard had either to the feare of God, or the king hir husband, the last summer being in progresse with the king at Pomfret, the seuen and twentith of Au|gust, she reteined the said Francis Diram in hir ser|uice, to the intent she might vse his companie in such vnlawfull sort the more freelie: and not satisfied with him, she also vsed the vnlawfull companie of Tho|mas Culpeper esquire, one of the gentlemen of the kings priuie chamber, as well at Pomfret aforesaid on the nine and twentith and last of August afore|said, and on the first of September,At Lincolne (saith Hall) in August, wher she gaue to him a rich cap and a chaine. as at diuerse o|ther times and places before and after. Wherevpon, the thirtéenth of Nouember, sir Thomas Wriothes|leie knight the kings secretarie, came to Hampton court vnto the said quéene, and called all hir ladies, gentlewomen, and seruants into hir great chamber, & there openlie in presence of them all, declared hir offenses committed in abusing of hir bodie before hir mariage, & therwith he discharged hir houshold.Quéene Ka|tharine detes|ted of inconti|nent liuing. The morrow after she was conueied to Sion, the ladie Bainton and certeine gentlewomen and some of hir seruants being appointed to wait vpon hir there, till the kings pleasure might be further knowen. Cul|peper, Diram, and others were had to the tower. Di|ram in his examination being charged with the fa|miliaritie which had béene betwixt them, before she was married to the king, confessed that he and she said quéene had made a precontract togither, and that he concealed it for hir preferment in marriage to the king, after he vnderstood the king began to cast a li|king towards hir.

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