Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then the maior commanded euerie man to staie, and herewith appointed some to go about, & to come in at the inner side of the house through the garden as the waie laie,Footsteps [...] alongst from the dead bodie of Arden to his dwelling house. to the place where maister Ardens dead bodie did lie; who all the waie as they came, perceiued footings still before them in the snow: and so it appeared plainlie that he was brought along that waie from the house through the garden, and so into the field where he laie. Then the maior and his companie that were with him went into the house, and knowing hir euill demeanor in times past, ex|amined hir of the matter: but she defied them and said, I would you should know I am no such wo|man. Then they examined hir seruants, and in the examination, by reason of a péece of his heare any bloud found néere to the house in the waie,A péece of Ar|dens heare and his bloud spil [...] in the house espied, as also a bloudie knife and a clou [...] found. by the which they caried him foorth, and likewise by the knife with which she had thrust him into the brest, and the clout wherewith they wiped the bloud awaie which they found in the tub, into the which the same were throwen; they all confessed the matter, and hir selfe beholding hir husbands bloud, said; Oh the bloud of God helpe, for this bloud haue I shed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then were they all attached, and committed to prison, and the maior with others went presentlie to the flower de lice, where they found Mosbie in bed: and as they came towards him, they espied his hose and pursse stained with some of maister Ardens bloud.Some of Ar|dens bloud vpon Mos|bies pursse. And when he asked what they meant by their comming in such sort, they said; Sée, here ye may vnderstand wherefore, by these tokens, shewing him the bloud on his hose and pursse. Then he confessed the déed, and so he and all the other that had conspi|red the murder, were apprehended and laid in pri|son, except Gréene, blacke Will, and the painter,The princi|pals of this murder fled a|waie. which painter and George Shakebag, that was also fled before, were neuer heard of. Shortlie were the sessions kept at Feuersham, where all the prisoners were arreigned and condemned. And therevpon being examined whither they had anie other compli|ces, mistres Arden accused Bradshaw, vpon occa|sion of the letter sent by Gréene from Graues end,Bradshaw as vniustlie accu|sed, as his simplicitie was shame|fullie abused. (as before ye haue heard) which words had none o|ther meaning, but onelie by Bradshaws describing of blacke Wils qualities; Gréene iudged him a méete instrument for the execution of their preten|ded murder. Whereto notwithstanding (as Gréene confessed at his death certeine yeares after) this Bradshaw was neuer made priuie; howbeit, he was vppon this accusation of mistres Arden, immediat|lie sent for to the sessions, and indicted, and declara|tion made against him, as a procurer of blacke Will to kill maister Arden, which procéeded wholie by mis|vnderstanding of the words conteined in the letter which he brought from Greene.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then he desired to talke with the persons con|demned, and his request was granted. He therefore demanded of them if they knew him, or euer had a|nie conuersation with him, & they all said no. Then the letter being shewed and read, he declared the ve|rie EEBO page image 1066 truth of the matter,Innocencie no barre a|gainst execu|tion. and vpon what occasion he told Gréene of blacke Will: neuerthelesse, he was condemned, and suffered. These condemned per|sons were diuerslie executed in sundrie places, for Michaell maister Ardens man was hanged in chaines at Feuersham,Note how these malefac|tors suffered punishment. and one of the maids was burnt there, pitifullie bewailing hir case, and cried out on hir mistres that had brought hir to this end, for the which she would neuer forgiue hir. Mosbie & his sister were hanged in Smithfield at London; mistres Arden was burned at Canturburie the foure and twentith of March. Gréene came againe certeine yeares after, was apprehended, condem|ned,Blacke Will burnt a [...] Flishing. & hanged in chaines in the high waie betwixt Ospring & Boughton against Feuersham; blacke Will was burnt on a scaffold at Flishing in Ze|land. Adam Foule that dwelt at the floure de lice in Feuersham was brought into trouble about this matter, and caried vp to London, with his legs bound vnder the horsse bellie, and committed to pri|son in the Marshalseie: for that Mosbie was heard to saie; Had it not béene for Adam Foule, I had not come to this trouble: meaning that the bringing of the siluer dice for a token to him from mistresse Ar|den, as ye haue heard, occasioned him to renew fa|miliaritie with hir againe. But when the matter was throughlie ripped vp, & that Mosbie had cléered him, protesting that he was neuer of knowledge in anie behalfe to the murder, the mans innocencie preserued him.