Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But first of all for the more spéedie raising of men, they deuised to burne beacons, & thereby to bring the people togither, as though it were to defend the sea|coasts: and hauing the ignorant people assembled, then to powre out their poison, first beginning with the rudest and poorest sort, such as they thought were pricked with pouertie, and were vnwilling to labor, and therefore the more readie to follow the spoile of rich mens goods, blowing into their heads that Gods seruice was laid aside, and new inuentions neither good nor godlie put in place, and so feeding them with faire promises, to reduce into the church againe their old ignorance and idolatrie, thought by that means soonest to allure them to rage and run with them in this commotion. And furthermore, to the intent they would giue the more terror to the gentlemen at the first rising,The deuise of [...] rebels that [...] might be [...]. least they should be resisted, they deuised that some should be murthered in churches, some in their houses, some in seruing the king in commissi|on, and other as they might be caught, and to picke quarels at them by alteration of seruice on the holie daies: and thus was the platforme cast of their de|uise, according as afterward by their confession at their examinations was testified, and remaineth in true record.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus they being togither agréed, Ombler and Dale, with others, by their secret appointment, so la|boured the matter in the parish of Semer, Win|tringham, and the townes about, that they were in|fected with the poison of this confederacie, in such sort that it was easie to vnderstand whervnto they would incline, if a commotion were begun, the accomplish|ment whereof did shortlie follow. For although by the words of one drunken fellow of that conspiracie named Caluerd, at the alehouse in Wintringham, some suspicion of that rebellion began to be smelled before by the lord president and gentlemen of those parties, and so preuented in that place where the re|bels thought to begin: yet they gaue not ouer so, but drew to another place at Semer by the seacoast, and there by night rode to the beacon at Straxton, and set it on fire, and so gathering togither a rude rout of rascals out of the townes neare about, being on a sturre, Ombler, Thomas Dale, Barton, and Robert Dale, hasted foorthwith with the rebels to maister Whites house to take him: who notwithstanding be|ing on horssebacke, minding to haue escaped their hands, Dale, Ombler, and the rest of the rebels tooke him, and Clopton his wiues brother, one Sauage a merchant of Yorke, and one Berrie seruant to sir Walter Mildmaie. Which foure without cause or quarell, sauing to fulfill their seditious prophesie in some part, and to giue a terror to other gentlemen, they cruellie murthered, after they had caried them one mile from Semer towards the Wold, and there after they had stripped them of their clothes & purses, left them naked behind them in the plaine fields for crowes to feed on: vntill Whites wife and Sauages wife, then at Semer, caused them to bée buried.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Long it were and tedious to recite what reuell these rebels kept in their raging madnesse,The rebels increase their number & [...]e|bellious band. who ran|ging about the countrie from towne to towne, to in|large their vngratious and rebellious band, taking those with force which were not willing to go, & lea|uing in no towne where they came anie man aboue the age of sixtéene yeares, so increased this number, that in short time they had gathered three thousand to fauour their wicked attempts, and had like to haue gathered more, had not the Lords goodnesse through prudent circumspection of some interrupted the course of their furious beginning. For first came the kings gratious and frée pardon,The kings pardon offred, receiued, refused. discharging & par|doning all them and the rest of the rebels, of all trea|sons, murthers, felonies, & other offenses doone to his maiestie before the one & twentith of August, 1549. Which pardon although Ombler contemptuouslie reading, persisted still in his wilfull obstinacie, dis|suaded also the rest from the humble accepting of the kings so louing & liberall pardon: yet notwithstan|ding with some it did good, who of likelihood submitted themselues, assuredlie belieuing if they perseuered in their enterprise, there was no way with them but one, namelie deserued death, wherewith there was no dispensing after the contempt of the princes par|don and refusall of his mercie; so that in this hea|uie case they might verie well complaine and saie:

Funditùs occidimus, nec habet fortuna regressum. Virgil.