Compare 1577 edition: 1 Although this admonition and wholsome exhor|tation might haue mooued the Scots to haue regar|ded their owne state, yet it litle auailed,The Scots reiect the be|nefit of this exhortation. as by the se|quele it appeared. For hauing both great promises made by the French, and now considering therewith the hurlie burlies and tumults that sproong vp in England, they continued in their obstinat purposes, not to yéeld vnto such reasonable motions as had béene offered, if they would haue shewed themselues conformable thereto, and not haue so stubbornlie de|nied to submit themselues to that which of right they were bound vnto. So that herein they shewed them|selues verie peruerse and wilfull, reiecting not one|lie the good aduise that the duke gaue them, but also not so much as once thinking what might insue to their great mischéefe vpon their refusall, and what be|nefit EEBO page image 1002 redound to them by admitting the offer: naie, they were of opinion and beléefe, that if so braue a bootie might befall England, it would be an occasion of great ruth and wretchednesse to Scotland: as one of late hath affirmed in his poeticall supposall:

—si haec praeda Britannis

Cederet, ô miserae Scotiae mis [...]rabile regnum,

Genti infelici nihil est nisiflere relictum.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to let the Scots alone for a time, we will returne to the rebellion which followed in this yéere, to the whole disappointing of the plot laid by the councell, for the present subduing of the Scots, as it was verie like that it should haue so come to passe, if none other let had come. So it was, that the kings maiestie,A proclama|tion for the laieng open of inclosures. by the aduise of his vncle the lord protector, and other of the councell, thought good to set foorth a proclamation against inclosures, and taking in of fields and commons that were accustomed to lie o|pen, for the behoofe of the inhabitants dwelling neere to the same, who had greeuouslie complained of gen|tlemen and others for taking from them the vse of those fields and commons, and had inclosed them in|to parks and seuerall pastures for their priuat com|modities and pleasures, to the great hinderance and vndooing of manie a poore man.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The meaning of the foresaid proclamation.This proclamation tending to the benefit and re|léefe of the poore, appointed that such as had inclosed those commons, should vpon a paine by a daie assi|gned laie them open againe. But how well soeuer the setters foorth of this proclamation meant, think|ing thereby peraduenture to appease the grudge of the people that found themselues grieued with such inclosures; yet verelie it turned not to the wished effect, but rather ministred occasion of a foule and dangerous disorder. For wheras there were few that obeied the commandement, the vnaduised people presuming vpon their proclamation, thinking they should be borne out by them that had set it foorth rashlie without order, tooke vpon them to redresse the matter: and assembling themselues in vnlawfull wise, chose to them capteins and leaders, brake o|pen the inclosures, cast downe ditches, killed vp the deare which they found in parkes, spoiled and made hauocke, after the maner of an open rebellion. First they began to plaie these parts in Summersetshire,Commotions in Summer|setshire, and other places. Buckinghamshire, Northhamptonshire, Kent, Es|sex, and Lincolneshire.