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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After the receipt of these letters,The lords continue in their intended purpose a|gainst the lord protector. the lords séeming not greatlie to regard the offers conteined therein, persisted in their intended purpose; and continuing still in London conferred with the maior of London and his brethren, first willing them to cause a good and substantiall watch by night, and a good ward by daie to be kept for the safegard of the citie, and the ports and gates thereof: which was consented vnto, and the companie. [...] London in their turnes war|ned to watch and [...] accordinglie. Then the said lords and councellors demanded of the lord maior and his brethren fiue hundred men to aid them, to fetch the lord protector out of Windsor from the king. But therevnto the maior answered, that he could grant no aid without the assent of the common councell of the citie: whervpon the next daie a common councell was summoned to the Guildhall in London. But in this meane time the said lords of the councell as|sembled themselues at the lord maiors house in Lon|don, who was then sir Henrie Amcotes fishmonger, and Iohn Yorke and Richard Turke shiriffes of the said citie. And there the said councell agréed and pub|lished foorthwith a proclamation against the lord pro|tector,A proclamati|on published against the lord protec|tor. the effect of which proclamation was as fol|loweth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 1 That the lord protector, by his malicious and euill gouernement, was the occasion of all the sedi|tion that of late hath happened within the realme.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The losse of the kings peeces in France.

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