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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Walter Dela|hyde and his Ladie Gennet Euſtace ap|prehended.Sir Walter Delahyde knight and his wife the Ladie Gennet Euſtace, were apprehended, and brought as priſoners by maiſter Brabſon Vicetreaſorer from their towne of Moyclare to the Caſtell of Dublin, bycauſe theyr ſonne and heyre Iames Delahyde was the onely bruer of all this rebellion, who as the gouernour ſuſ|pected, was ſet on by his parents, and namely by his mother.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The knight and his wife, lying in dureſſe for the ſpace of twelue Monethes, were at ſeue|rall tymes examined, and notwithſtanding all preſumptions and ſurmiſes that coulde bee ga|thered, they were in the ende founde guiltleſſe of their ſonne his folly. But the Ladie was had in examination apart, and intyced by fayre mea|nes, to charge hir huſbande with hir ſonne hys rebellion, who being not woonne thereto with al the meanes that coulde be wrought, was mena|ced to be put to death, or to be rackt, and ſo with EEBO page image 100 extremitie to be compelled, whereas with gen|tleneſſe ſhe could not be allured to acknowledge theſe apparant treaſons, that neyther hir huſ|bande nor ſhe coulde without great ſhew of im|pudencie denie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The gentlewoman with theſe continuall ſtormes heartbroken,Gennet Eu|ſtace dieth. deceaſſed in the Caſtell: from thence hir bodie was remoued to the gray Friers with the Deputie his commaundement, that it ſhould not be enterred, vntill his pleaſure were further knowne, adding withall, that the carkaſſe of one who was the mother of ſo arrant an Archtraytor, ought rather to be caſt out on a Dunghill to be carion for Rauens and Dogs to gnaw vpon, than to be layd in any Chriſtian graue. The corps lying foure or fiue dayes in this plight, at the requeſt of the Ladie Gennet Golding, wife to ſir Iohn White knight, the gouernour licenced, that it ſhould be buried.

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