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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The fiue and twentith of Maie, the erle of Deuon|shire was brought out of the tower at three of the clocke in the morning, sir Thomas Tresham knight, and maister Chamberlaine of Suffolke, with cer|teine of the gard, being appointed to attend on him to Fodringham castell in Northamptonshire, where he was assigned to remaine vnder custodie of the said sir Thomas Tresham and others.A gun shot as the preacher: Sée before pag. 1102. ¶On the tenth of Iune, the foresaid doctor Pendleton preached at Poules crosse, at whome a gun was shot, the pellet wherof went verie neere him, and light on the church wall: but the shooter could not be found. Anno Reg. 2. The lord Iohn Greie arreigned, pardoned, and released.] The ele|uenth of Iune the lord Iohn Greie, brother to the late duke of Suffolke, was arreigned at Westmin|ster in the Kings bench, and there condemned: but yet through the painfull trauell and diligent sute of the ladie Greie his wife, his pardon was obteined, and so he escaped with life, and was at length set at libertie, as after it shall appeare.

¶ The two and twentith of Iune was proclama|tion made, forbidding the shooting in handguns, Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow. 109 [...]. A spirit in a wall without Aldersgate doth penãce at Paules crosse for abusing the people, &c. and bearing of weapons. The fifteenth of Iulie, Elisa|beth Croft, a wench about eightéene yeares old, stood vpon a scaffold at Pauls crosse all the sermon time, where she confessed, that she being mooued by diuerse lewd persons therevnto, had vpon the fourteenth of March last before passed, counterfeited certeine spea|ches in an house without Aldresgate of London, EEBO page image 1118 through the which the people of the whole citie were woonderfullie molested, for that all men might heare the voice, but not sée hir person. Some said it was an angell, some a voice from heauen, some the Holie|ghost, &c. This was called the spirit in the wall: shée had laine whistling in a strange whistle made for that purpose, which was giuen hir by one Drakes: then were there diuerse companions confederat with hir, which putting themselues amongst the prease, tooke vpon them to interpret what the spirit said, expres|sing certeine seditious words against the quéene, the prince of Spaine, the masse, and confession, &c.]