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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The first of December, Culpeper and Diram were arreigned at the Guildhall in London, before the lord maior sitting there in iudgement as chéefe iudge, hauing the lord chancellor vpon his right hand, and the duke of Norffolke vpon his left hand, the duke of Suffolke the lord priuie seale, the earles of Sussex and Hereford, with diuerse other of the EEBO page image 955 councell sitting there as iudges in commission that daie: the prisoners in the end confessed the indicte|ment, and had iudgement to die, as in cases of trea|son.