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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus (as saith maister Fox) were beheaded two innocents, Iohn Fox. in comparison of them that sat vpon them: for they did but ignorantlie accept that which the others had willinglie deuised, and by open pro|clamation consented to take from others, and giue to them. And verelie how vnwilling she was to take it vpon hir, there are yet liuing that can testifie. Iudge Morgan now that gaue the sentence against hir,Iudge Mor|gan fell mad. shortlie after fell mad, and in his rauing cried continuallie to haue the ladie Iane taken awaie from him, and so ended his life. ¶Touching this ladie Iane in the high commendation of hir godlie mind, I find this report in maister Foxes appendix to his Acts and Monuments, Abr. Fl. ex I. F. [...]. namelie that being on a time when she was verie yoong at Newhall in Essex at the ladie Maries, was by one ladie Anne Wharton desired to walke, and they passing by the chapell, the ladie Wharton made low curtsie to the popish sacra|ment hanging on the altar. Which when the ladie Iane saw maruelled why she did so, and asked hir whether the ladie Marie were there or not? Unto whome the ladie Wharton answered no, but she said that she made hir curtsie to him that made vs all. Why quoth the ladie Iane, how can he be there that made vs all, and the baker made him? This hir an|swer comming to the ladie Maries eare, she did ne|uer loue hir after, as is crediblie reported, but estée|med hir as the rest of that christian profession. In further witnesse of which good ladies disposition (both to God and the world) besides the verses of certeine learned men extant to hir praise, these following were found written by hir owne hand with a pin:

Non aliena putes homini, quae obtingere possunt,
Sors [...] mihi, tunc erit illa tibi.
Iane Dudley.
Deo iuuante, nil nocet liuor malus,
Et non iuuante, nil iuuat labor gra [...]is,
Post tenebras spero videre lucem.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Upon sa [...]urdaie being the seuentéenth of Februa|rie the duke of Suffolke was arreigned at West|minster, and there condemned to die by his péeres,The duke of Suffolke. the earle of Arundell being that daie chiefe iudge. Where some haue written that he should at his last going downe into the countrie make proclamation in his daughters name, that is not so: for whereas he stood by in Leicester, when at his commandement the proclamation was there made against the queenes mariage with the prince of Spaine, &c: ma|ster Damport then maior of that towne said to him: My lord I trust your grace meaneth no hurt to the quéenes maiestie. No saith he maister maior (laieng his hand on his sword) he that would hir anie hurt, I would this sword were through his hart, for she is the mercifullest prince, as I haue trulie found hir, that euer reigned, in whose defense I am & will be readie to die at hir foot. Iohn Fox. ¶On mondaie the ninetéenth of Fe|bruarie, the lord Cobhams thrée sonnes, and foure o|ther men were brought to Westminster, the yoong|est of the Cobhams, to wit maister Thomas Cob|ham was condemned with the other foure men, but the other two Cobhams came not to the barre. ¶On the wednesdaie the one and twentith of Februarie [...]he lord Thomas Greie that had beene taken (as be| [...]re ye haue heard) in Wales, was brought togither with sir Iames Croft through London to the tower, by a number of horssemen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Upon the fridaie the thrée and twentith of Fe|bruarie, about nine of the clocke, the duke of Suf|folke was brought foorth of the tower vnto the scaf|fold on the tower hill. And in his comming thither,The duke of Suffolke be|headed. there accompanied him doctor Weston, as his ghost|lie father: notwithstanding (as it should séeme) a|gainst the will of the said duke. For when the duke went vp the scaffold, the said Weston being on his left hand, pressed to go vp with him. The duke with his hand put him downe againe off the staires, and Weston taking hold of the duke forced him downe likewise. And as they ascended the second time, the duke againe put him downe. Then Weston said,Doctor Weston. that it was the quéenes pleasure he should so doo wherewith the duke casting his hands abrode, ascen|ded vp the scaffold, and paused a prettie while after, and then he said.

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