Compare 1577 edition: 1 A wonder tou|ching the print of Ar|dens dead bo|die two yeares after he was slaine.This one thing séemeth verie strange and nota|ble, touching maister Arden, that in the place where he was laid, being dead, all the proportion of his bo|die might be séene two yeares after and more, so plaine as could be, for the grasse did not grow where his bodie had touched: but betwéene his legs, be|tweene his armes, and about the hollownesse of his necke, and round about his bodie, and where his legs, armes, head, or anie other part of his bodie had touched, no grasse growed at all of all that time. So that manie strangers came in that meane time, be|side the townesmen, to see the print of his bodie there on the ground in that field. Which field he had (as some haue reported) most cruellie taken from a woman, that had beene a widow to one Cooke, and after maried to one Richard Read a mariner, to the great hinderance of hir and hir husband the said Read: for they had long inioied it by a lease, which they had of it for manie yeares, not then expired: neuerthelesse, he got it from them. For the which, the said Reads wife not onelie exclaimed against him,God heareth the teares of the oppressed and taketh vengeance: note an exam|ple in Arden. in sheading manie a salt téere, but also curssed him most bitterlie euen to his face, wishing manie a vengeance to light vpon him, and that all the world might woonder on him. Which was thought then to come to passe, when he was thus murdered, and laie in that field from midnight till the morning: and so all that daie, being the faire daie till night, all the which daie there were manie hundreds of people came woondering about him. And thus far touching this horrible and heinous murder of maister Arden. To returne then where we left.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 A parlement.About this time the kings maiestie calling his high court of parlement, held the same at West|minster the three and twentith daie of Ianuarie, in this fift yéere of his reigne, and there continued it, vntill the fiftéenth daie of Aprill in the sixt yeare of his said reigne. In this parlement the booke of com|mon praier,Fooke of common prai|er confirmed. which in some part had béene corrected and amended, was newlie confirmed & established. ¶ In the end of this parlement, namelie the fifteenth of Aprill the infectious sweating sicknesse began at Shrewesburie, Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1049. Sweating sickenesse. which ended not in the north part of England vntill the end of September. In this space what number died, it cannot be well accounted: but certeine it is, that in London in few daies nine hundred and sixtie gaue vp the ghost. It began in London the ninth of Iulie, and the twelfth of Iulie it was most vehement: which was so terrible, Iohn [...]. that people being in best helth, were suddenlie taken, and dead in foure and twentie houres, and twelue, or lesse, for lacke of skill in guiding them in their sweat. And it is to be noted,Of this [...] died Henrie [...] Charles [...] of Charles Brandon, the elder first, [...] the yoong [...] after: so th [...] they both [...] dukes of Suffolke. that this mortalitie fell chéeflie or rather vpon men, and those also of the best age, as betwéen thirtie & fortie yeers. The spéedie riddance of life procured by this sicknes, did so terrifie people of all sorts, that such as could make shift, either with monie or freendship, changed their soile, and leauing places of concourse, betooke them (for the time) to a|bodes, though not altogither solitarie, yet lesse frequented: to conclude, manifold meanes were made for safetie of life. The first wéeke died in Lon|don eight hundred persons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The manner of this sweat was such, Rich. Gra [...]. that if men did take anie cold outwardlie, it stroke the sweat in, and immediatlie killed them. If they were suffered to sléepe, commonlie they swooned in their sleepe and departed, or else died immediat|lie vpon their waking.Remedie [...]|gainst the danger of the sweating sicknesse. But the waie to escape dan|ger was close keeping moderatlie with some aire and a little drinke, and the same to be posset-ale, and so to kéepe them thirtie houres, & then was the dan|ger past; but beware of sudden cold. Before men had learned the manner of keeping, an infinit num|ber perished. This disease at that time followed Englishmen & none other nation; for in Antwerpe and other countries, our Englishmen being there a|mongst diuerse other nations, onelie our English|men were sicke thereof, and none other persons. The consideration of which thing made this nation much afraid thereof, who for the time began to repent and giue almes, and to remember God from whom that plague might well séeme to be sent among vs. But as the disease in time ceased, so our deuotion in short time decaied.The imb [...]|sing of the coine.] At this time also the king with the ad|uise of his priuie councell, and hauing also great conference with merchants and others, perceiuing that by such coins and copper monies, as had beene coined in the time of the king his father, and now were commonlie currant in the realme; and indéed a great number of them not worth halfe the value that they were currant at, to the great dishonor of the kings maiestie & the realme, and to the deceit & no little hinderance of all the kings maiesties good subiects, did now purpose not onelie the abasing of the said copper monies, but also meant wholie to r [...]|duce them into bullion, to the intent to deliuer fine and good monies for them. And therefore in the mo|neth of Iulie by his graces proclamation, he abased the péece of twelue pence,Two [...]a [...]les of moni [...]. commonlie called a tes|ton vnto nine pence, and the péece of foure pence vnto three pence. And in August next following, the peece of nine pence was abased to six pence, and the peece of thrée pence vnto two pence, and the pennie to an halfepennie.