Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When he had spoken these words, suddenlie there was a great noise heard,Great feare among the people assem|bled on the tower hill. Rich. Grafton. Iohn Stow. wherevpon the people were streight driuen into a great feare, few or none knowing the cause. Wherefore I thinke it good to write what I saw (saith Iohn Stow) concerning that matter. The people of a certeine hamlet which were warned to be there by seauen of the clocke to giue their attendance on the lieutenant, now came tho|rough the posterne, and perceiuing the duke to be al|readie on the scaffold, the foremost began to run, cri|eng to their fellowes to follow fast after. Which sud|dennes of these men, being weaponed with bils and halberds, & this running caused the people which first saw them, to thinke some power had come to haue rescued the duke from execution, and therefore cried Awaie awaie. Wherevpon the people ran, some one waie, some an other, manie fell into the tower ditch, and they which tarried, thought some pardon had beene brought: some said it thundered, some that the ground mooued, but there was no such matter.

Abr. Fl. ex Io. Foxi martyrolo|gio. ¶ This amazement of the people is in other words recorded by Iohn Fox in the storie of this dukes trou|bles & death: which bicause they be effectuall I thinke good to interlace. When the duke had ended his speech (saith he) suddenlie there was a terrible noise heard: whervpon there came a great feare on all men.A sudden noise & feare of the people at the death of the duke [...] Summerset. This noise was as it had beene the noise of a great storme or tempest, which to some séemed to be heard from a+boue: like as if a great deale of gunpowder being inclosed in an armorie, and hauing caught fire, had violentlie broken out. But to some againe it seemed as though it had béene a great multitude of horsse|men running togither, or comming vpon them; such a noise was then in the eares of all men, albeit they saw nothing. Whereby it happened, that all the people being amazed without any euident cause, and without anie violence or stroke striken, they ran awaie, some into the ditches and puddles, and some into the houses thereabout. Other some being affraid with the horrour and noise, fell downe groue|ling vnto the ground with their pollaxes & halberds, and most part of them cried out: Iesus saue vs, Ie|sus saue vs. Those which tarried still in their places, for feare knew not where they were. And Namelie Iohn Fox the writer of the [...] report. I my selfe which was there present among the rest, being also affraid in this hurlie burlie, stood still altogi|ther amazed, looking when anie man would knocke me on the head. It happened here, as the euangelists write, it did to Christ, when the officers of the high priests & Phariseis comming with wepons to take him, being astonied ran backe, & fell to the ground.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time,The like sto|rie you shall read of Caius Marius in Valerius Ma|ximus the se|cond booke and fift chap|ter. whilest these things were thus in dooing, the people by chance spied one sir Antho [...]ie Browne riding vnto the scaffold: which was the oc|casion of a new noise. For when they saw him com|ming, they coniectured that which was not true, but notwithstanding which they all wished for, that the king by that messenger had sent his vncle pardon: and therfore with great reioising and casting vp their caps, they cried out; Pardon, pardon is come: God saue the king. Thus this good duke,The great fa|uour of the people to the duke o [...] Sum|merset. although he was destitute of all mans helpe, yet he saw before his de|parture, in how great loue and fauour he was with all men. And trulie I doo not thinke, that in so great slaughter of dukes as hath béene in England within this few yeares, there was so manie weeping eies at one time: and not without cause. For all men did sée in the decaie of this duke, the publike ruine of all England, except such as indeed perceiued nothing.] The duke in the meane time standing still, both in the same place and mind wherin he was before, shaking his cap which he held in his hand, made a signe vnto the people that they should kéepe themselues quiet: which thing being doone, & silence obteined, he spake to them the second time in this maner.