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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 But now to let this duke rest with God, we will procéed with the storie. The same daie (or as some haue noted the day before) a number of prisoners had their pardon, and came through the citie with their halters about their necks. They were in The number of them that thus had their pardon were 240. number a|boue two hundred. Upon the saturdaie, the eight and twentith of Februarie, sir William Sentlow was committed as prisoner to the maister of the horsse to be kept. This sir William was at this time one of the ladie Elizabeths gentlemen. Upon the sundaie being the fiue and twentith of Februarie, sir Iohn Rogers was committed to the tower. Upon the tuesdaie in the same weeke being the seuen & twen|tith of Februarie,Gentlemen sent into Kent to be executed. certeine gentlemen of Kent were sent into Kent to be executed there. Their [...] were the [...] the two Mantels, two Kneuets, and Bret: with these maister Rudston also, and certeine other were condemned, and should haue beene execu|ted, but they had their pardon.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Sir Henrie Isleie knight;Execution. Thomas Isleie his brother, and Walter Mantel [...], suffered at Maidsto [...], where Wiat first displaied his banner. Anthonie Kneuet and his brother William Kneuet, with an o|ther of the Mantels, were executed at Seugnecke Bret at Rochester was hanged in chains. On satur|daie the third of March, sir Gawen Carew, and mai|ster Gibs were brought thorough London to the tower, with a companie of horssemen.Ladie Eli|zabeth and lord Court|neie prisoners in the tower. The fifteenth daie of March next following, the ladie Elizabeth the queenes sister, and next heire to the crowne, was ap|prehended at hir manour of Ashridge, for suspicion of Wiats conspiracie. And from thence (being that time verie si [...]ke) with great rigour brought priso|ner to London. On the sundaie after being the se|uentéenth of March, she was commited to the tower, where also the lord Courtneie earle of Deuonshire (of whome before is made mention) was for the like suspicion committed prisoner.

¶Touching the imprisonment of the foresaid ladie Elizabeth, & the lord Courtneie, Abr. Fl. ex Ioh. Fo [...]i ma [...]|tyrologio. thou shalt note here for thy learning (good reader) a politike point of prac|tise in Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester, not vnworthie to be considered. This Gardiner being alwaies a capitall enimie to ladie Elizabeth, & thin|king now by the occasion of maister Wiat to picke out some matter against the lord Courtneie, and so in the end to intangle the ladie Elizabeth, deuised a pestilent practise of conueiance, as in the storie here following maie appeare. The storie is this. The same daie that sir Thomas died,A point of practise of Stephã Gar [...]diner against the ladie E|lizabeth. he desired the lieutenant to bring him to the presence of the lord Courtneie, who there before the lieutenant and the shiriffes, knéeling downe vpon his knées, besought the lord Courtneie to forgiue him, for that he had falselie ac|cused both the ladie Elizabeth and him: and so being brought from thence vnt [...] the scaffold to suffer, there openlie in the hearing of all the people cleared the ladie Elizabeth, and the lord Courtneie, to be free and innocent from all suspicion of that commotion. At which confession, doctor Weston there standing by,Doctor West [...] against the l [...]die Elizabet [...] cried to the people, saieng: Beléeue him not (good people) for he confessed otherwise before vnto the councell.

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