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On the last of September, by occasion of great wind and raine that had fallen, was such great floods,Great land|waters wher|by diuerse fre|quented places were ouerflowne. that that morning the kings palace at Westmin|ster, and Westminster hall was ouerflowne with water, vnto the staire foot, going to the chancerie and kings bench: so that when the lord maior of London should come to present the shiriffes to the barons of the excheker, all Westminster hall was full of wa|ter. And by report there, that morning, a whirriman rowed with his bote ouer Westminster bridge, into the palace court, and so through the staple gate: and all the wooll staple into the kings stréet, and all the marshes on Lambeth side, were so ouerflowne, that the people from Newington church could not passe on foot, but were caried by bote from the said church to the pinfold, neere to saint Georges in South|worke.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 About this time, the bishop of Lincolne, Glocester, Anno Reg. [...]. Commis [...]io|ners sent to Oxford, by th [...] popes autho|ritie, & [...]. and Bristow, were sent in commission to Oxford by the popes authoritie, to examine Ridleie and Lati|mer, vpon certeine articles by them preached, which if they would not recant, and consent to the popes doctrine, then had they power to proceed in sentence against them as heretikes, and to commit them o|uer to the secular power. Those two doctors neuer|theles EEBO page image 1130 stood constantlie to that which they had taught, and would not reuoke: for which cause, they were condemned, and after burned in the towne ditch at Oxford, the sixtéenth daie of October. In the time of whose examination, bicause the bishops aforesaid de|clared themselues to be the popes commissioners, neither Ridleie nor Latimer would doo them any re|uerence, but kept their caps on their heads: where|fore they were sharplie rebuked by the bishop of Lin|colne, and one of the officers was commanded for to take of their caps. Of these men, and the maner of their death, ye may read at large in the booke of the monuments of the church.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The one and twentith of October, a parlement was holden at Westminster, [...] parlement [...]herein the kings of the [...]rch are [...] in the which amongst other things the queene being persuaded by the car|dinall (and other of hir clergie) that she could not prosper, so long as she kept in hir hands any posses|sions of the church, did frankelie and freelie resigne and render vnto them all those reuenues ecclesiasti|call, which by the authoritie of parlement, in the time of king Henrie, had béene annexed to the crowne, called the first fruits and tenths of all bishopricks, benefices, and ecclesiasticall promotions. The resig|nation whereof was a great diminution of the reue|nues of the crowne. [...] subsidie [...] Stow ¶In this parlement was gran|ted to the king & queene a subsidie of the laitie from fiue pounds to ten pounds eight pence of the pound, from ten pounds to twentie pounds twelue pence of the pound, & from twentie pounds vpward sixtéene pence of the pound, and all strangers double, and the cleargie granted six shillings of the pound.

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