Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Although the rebels receiued this princelie mes|sage, & wholesome admonition from the kings ma|iestie, yet would they not reforme themselues, as dutifull subiects ought to haue doone, but stood still in their wicked begun rebellion, offering to trie it at the weapons point. There wanted not priestes and other busie bodies among them, such as by all waies and meanes possible sought to kindle the coles of malice and hatred betwixt the king and his subiects; which as the maner is among all the like wicked disposed people, contriued to raise and strew abroad false forged tales, and feined rumors, giuing it out, that the people should be constreined to paie a rata|ble taske for their sheepe and cattell,False rumors and an excise for euerie thing that they should eate or drinke. These and such other slanderous brutes were spred abroad by those children of Beliall, whereby the cankered minds of the rebels might the more be hardened and made stiffe from plieng vnto anie resonable per|suasion, that might be made to moue them to re|turne vnto their dutifull obedience, as by the lawes both of God and man they were bounden: and so it came to passe. For the rebellious ront were growne to an obstinacie, séeming so far from admitting per|suasions to submission, that they became resolute in their pestilent actions; wilfullie following the woorst, which they knew full well would redound to their detriment; and auoiding the best, which they doubted not might turne to their aduantage, agrea|ble in sense and meaning vnto that of the poet:

Quae nocüere sequar, fugiam quae profore credam.Har. in [...]. lib. 1.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon when no hope was left to procure them by anie quiet meanes to laie downe armes, the lord priuie seale, and the lord Greie, with their forces, although not comparable with the rebels in num|ber, about the latter end of Iulie set vpon them, and by great manhood put them from their ground, not|withstanding they fought verie stoutlie, & gaue it not ouer for a little: and although they were thus driuen to giue place at this first onset, yet they got togi|ther againe, and aboad a new charge, defending their ground, & dooing what they could to beat backe and repell those that came to assaile them. But ne|uerthelesse through the power of the almightie God fauouring the rightfull cause,The rebels put from their ground. the rebels were distres|sed, and followed in chase with great slaughter for the space of two miles. This was about the begin|ning of August.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Their chiefe capteines, to wit, Humfreie Arun|dell, Whinsland, Holms, and Burie, Iohn Fox. The capteins of the rebels taken. were taken and brought vp to London. There were taken also others of their capteins, as Thomas Underhill, Iohn Soleman, William Segar, Tempson, and Barret, which two last were priests; also Boier and Henrie Lée, two maiors, all the which were executed in one place or other, as they had well deserued. The said Boier being maior of Bodmin in Cornewall, (as Grafton reporteth) had béene a busie fellow a|mong the rebels, to set them forward in mischiefe: howbeit some that loued him sought to excuse him, as if he had béene forced hereto against his will by the rebels, who would haue killed him, and burnt his house, if he had not consented to them. But how|soeuer it was, sir Anthonie Kingston that was pro|uost marshall in the kings armie vnder the lord pri|uie seale, wrote his letter vnto the said maior,Sir Anthonie Kingston pro|uost marshall. sig|nifieng to him, that he and other with him would come and dine with him such a daie. The maior sée|ming to be glad thereof, made the best purueiance he could to receiue them, and at the time appointed, sir Anthonie Kingston came with his companie, and were right hartilie welcomed of the maior. But be|fore they sat downe to dinner, calling the maior a|side, he told him that there must be execution doone in that towne, and therefore willed him that a paire of gallowes might be framed and set vp with spéed, so that they might be readie by that time that they should make an end of dinner.