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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Culpeper and Diram execu|ted.The tenth of December, the said Culpeper and Diram were drawen from the tower vnto Tiburne and there Culpeper had his head striken off, and Di|ram was hanged, dismembred and headed. Culpe|pers bodie was buried in S. Sepulchers church, but both their heads were set on London bridge. The two and twentith of December were arreigned in the Kings bench at Westminster,Attaindors. the ladie Marga|ret Howard, wife to the lord William Howard, Ka|tharine Tilneie, & Alice Restwold gentlewomen, Ioane Bulmer, wife to Anthonie Bulmer gentle|man, Anne Howard, wife to Henrie Howard es|quier, and brother to the late queene, Malein Tilneie widow, Margaret Benet, wife to Iohn Benet gen|tleman, Edward Walgraue gentleman, William Ashbie gentleman; all these were condemned of mis|prision of treason, for concealing the queenes misde|meanour. And the same daie in the afternoone, the lord William Howard, and Damport a gentleman were likewise arreigned, and condemned of the same offense, and as well these as the other were ad|iudged to lose their goods, & the profits of their lands during life, and to remaine in perpetuall prison.