Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 ¶Thus much for sir Nicholas Throckmortons ar|reignement, wherein is to be considered, that the re|pealing of certeine statutes in the last parlement, was the chiefe matter he had to alledge for his ad|uantage: whereas the repealing of the same sta|tutes was meant notwithstanding for an other pur|pose (as before you haue partlie heard) which statutes, or the effect of the chiefe branches of them haue béene since that time againe reuiued, as by the bookes of the statutes it maie better appeare, to the which I re|ferre the reader.The lord Tho. Greie beheaded.] The eight and twentith of Aprill, the lord Thomas Greie, brother to the duke of Suffolke, was beheaded at the tower hill, a proper gentleman, and one that had serued right valiantlie both in France and Scotland, in the daies of the late kings Henrie and Edward.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Upon saturdaie the eight and twentith of Aprill, sir Iames Crofts and maister William Winter were brought from the tower to the Guildhall in London, where sir Iames Crofts was arreigned: but bicause the daie was farre spent, maister Win|ter was not arreigned, but caried backe againe to the tower with the said sir Iames Crofts.William Tho|mas arreigned & condemned. William Thomas, of whome mention is made before in the historie of sir Thomas Wiat, with certeine other, were arreigned and condemned for the conspiring of the murther and killing of the quéene vpon the sud|den: and for that offense, the said William Thomas was the eightéenth daie of Maie, drawne, hanged, and quartered at Tiburne.The ladie E|lisabeth [...]li|uered out of the tower. The ninetéenth daie of Maie next following, the ladie Elisabeth sister to quéene Marie, was deliuered out of the tower, and committed to the custodie of sir Iohn Williams knight, afterward lord Williams of Tame, by whome hir grace was more courteouslie intreated than some would haue wished. Wherefore shortlie after she was committed to the manour of Wood|stocke,Sir Henrie Beningfield knight. vnder the custodie of sir Henrie Bening|field of Oxenborough in the countie of Norffolke, knight, at whose hands she found not the like courte|sie, who (as it is well knowne) vsed his office more like a gailor than a gentleman, and with such rigour as was not méet to be shewed to such an estate, which extremitie of crueltie to a person of great dignitie notwithstanding hir innocencie, is verie well noted by C. O. in Eirenarchia siue Elisabetha, where he saieth:
—odio quoque tenditur acriSuspicio vehemens in te clarissima princepsElisabetha, capút tuum: quòd vixeris insons,Quód animi candor culpa noxá remotusHactenus inuidiae renitens hebetâarit ocellos,Ah liuore tumens sacer obliuiscitur ordo.Implacata cohors spumante exaestuatiraFurfuris eiusdem, donec custodibus Elisabetha. agna(Arcebat Deus ipse lupos) committitur arctisAsseruanda locis, vi libertatis adempta.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But here is to be noted, Rich. Graf [...]on. not so much the vnciuill nature of the man, as the singular lenitie, and grati|ous clemencie of that gentle and vertuous princesse, who afterward (as shall appeare) comming to the pos|session of the crowne as hir rightfull inheritance, was at that time so farre from reuenge of iniuries receiued, that whereas diuerse princes haue requited much lesse offenses with losse of life, she neuer tou|ched him either with danger of life, or losse of lands or goods, nor neuer procéeded further than to dis|charge him of the court: which manie thought was the thing that pleased him best.Quéene Eli|sabeths words to Be|ningfield hir butcherlie kée|ker in the time of hir durance. At whose departing from hir presence, she vsed onelie these words, or the like in sense: God forgiue you that is past, and we doo: and if we haue anie prisoner whome we would haue hardlie handled and strectlie kept, then we will send for you.