Compare 1577 edition: 1 Which commandement being doone by the said sargeant accordinglie, on the morrow the two shi|riffes, with one of the clearks of the counter (which was the chiefe occasion of the said affraie) togither with the said White, appeered in the common house, where the speaker charging them with their con|tempt and misdemeanor aforesaid, they were com|pelled to make immediat answer, without being ad|mitted to anie counsell. Albeit, sir Roger Cholmelcie, then recorder of London, and other of the councell of the citie there present, offered to speake in the cause, which were all put to silence, and none suffered to speake, but the parties themselues: wherevpon in conclusion,The shiriffes committed to the Tower. the said shiriffes and the same White, were committed to the Tower of London, and the said clearke (which was the occasion of the affraie) to a place there called litle ease, and the officer of Lon|don which did the arrest, called Tailor, with foure o|ther officers to Newgate, where they remained from the eight & twentith vntill the thirtith of March, and then they were deliuered, not without humble sute made by the maior of London & other their fréends.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And for somuch as she said Ferrers being in exe|cution vpon a condemnation of debt, and set at large by priuilege of parlement, was not by law to be brought againe into execution, and so the partie with|out remedie for his debt, as well against him as his principall debter; after long debate of the same by the space of nine or ten daies togither, at last they resolued vpon an act of parlement to be made, and to reuiue the execution of the said debt against the said Welden which was principall debter, and to dis|charge the said Ferrers.An act passeth for George Ferrers. But before this came to passe, the common house was diuided vpon the que|stion: howbeit in conclusion, the act passed for the said Ferrers, woone by fourtéene voices.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king then being aduertised of all this procée|ding, called immediatlie before him the lord chancel|lor of England and his iudges, with the speaker of the parlement, and other of the grauest persons of the nether house, to whome he declared his opinion to this effect. First commending their wisedomes in mainteining the priuileges of their house (which he would not haue to be infringed in anie point) he alle|ged that he being head of the parlement, and atten|ding in his owne person vpon the businesse thereof, ought in reason to haue priuilege for him and all his seruants attending there vpon him.Priuilege of a burgesse of the parlement or of anie ser|uant to such like officers belonging. So that if the said Ferrers had beene no burgesse, but onlie his ser|uant, yet in respect thereof he was to haue the pri|uilege as well as anie other.