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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The sixtéenth of Ianuarie the parlement began at Westminster,A parlement. in the which the lords and commons exhibited certeine petitions to the king. First, that he would not vex himselfe with the quéenes offense, and that she and the ladie Rochford might be attain|ted by parlement:The petitiõs of the lords & commons of the parlement i [...] the king. and to auoid protracting of time, they besought him to giue his roiall assent thereto, vnder his great seale, without staieng for the end of the parlement. Also, that Diram and Culpeper be|fore attainted by the common law, might also be at|tainted by parlement, & that Agnes duches of Norf|folke, and Katharine countesse of Bridgewater hir daughter, which for concealing the said offense, were committed to the towre, and indicted of misprision, & the lord William Howard arreigned of the same, might likewise be attainted. Also, that who soeuer had spoken or doone anie thing in detestation of hir naughtie life, should be pardoned.

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