Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the foresaid proclamation was proclamed, the lords or the most of them continuing and lieng in London, came the next daie to the Guildhall, du|ring EEBO page image 1059 the time that the lord maior and his brethren sat in their court or inner chamber, and entered and communed a long while with them, [...] kings [...] read to [...] [...]izens. and at the last the maior and his brethren came foorth vnto the common councell, where was read the kings letter sent vnto the maior and citizens, commanding them to aid him with a thousand men, as hath maister Fox, and to send the same to his castell at Windsore: and to the same letter was adioined the kings hand, and the lord protectors.The [...] enimie [...] the lord [...]. On the other side, by the mouth of the recorder it was requested, that the citizens would grant their aid rather vnto the lords: for that the pro|tector had abused both the kings maiestie, and the whole realme, and without that he were taken from the king, & made to vnderstand his follie, this realme was in a great hazard: and therefore required that the citizens would willinglie assent to aid the lords with fiue hundred men: herevnto was none other answer made but silence. But the recorder (who at that time was a worthie gentleman called maister Brooke) still cried vpon them for answer.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the last stepped vp a wise and good citizen, na|med (as maister Fox saith) George Stadlow, [...] Stad+ [...] citizen of L [...]don [...] answer [...] recorder [...] London [...] and [...]. and said thus. In this case it is good for vs to thinke of things past to auoid the danger of things to come. I remember (saith he) in a storie written in Fabians chronicle, of the warre betwéene the king and his ba|rons, which was in the time of king Henrie the third, and the same time the barons (as our lords doo now) commanded aid of the maior and citie of Lon|don, and that in a rightfull cause for the common|weale, which was for the execution of diuerse good lawes, wherevnto the king before had giuen his con|sent, and after would not suffer them to take place, and the citie did aid the lords. Now it came to an o|pen battell, wherein the lords preuailed, and tooke the king and his sonne prisoners, and vpon certeine conditions the lords restored againe the king and his sonne to their liberties. And among all other condi|tions, this was one, that the king should not onelie grant his pardon to the lords, but also to the citizens of London, which was granted, yea and the same ratified by act of parlement. But what followed?

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Was it forgotten? No suerlie, nor yet forgiuen during the kings life. [...]hat it is to [...] into the [...] and [...] pleasure [...] the prince. The liberties of the citie were taken awaie, strangers appointed to be our heads and gouernours, the citizens giuen awaie bodie and goods, and from one persecution to another were most miserablie afflicted: such it is to enter into the wrath of a prince, as Salomon saith; The wrath and indignation of a prince is death. Wherefore forso|much as this aid is required of the kings maiestie, whose voice we ought to hearken vnto (for he is our high shepheard) rather than vnto the lords:The aduise [...] George [...]radlow. and yet I would not wish the lords to be clearlie shaken off, but that they with vs, and we with them may ioine in sute, and make our most humble petition to the kings maiestie, that it would please his highnesse, to heare such complaint against the gouernement of the lord protector as may be iustlie alledged and proo|ued. And I doubt not but this matter will be so paci|fied, that neither shall the king nor yet the lords haue cause to séeke for further aid, neither we to offend a|nie of them both. After this tale the commons staied, and the lord maior & his brethren for that time brake vp, and afterward communed with the lords.