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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Item, that without any warrant from the King or Counſaile, he prophaned the Church of Saint Patrickes in Doune, turning it to a Stable, after plucked it downe, and ſhipt the notable ring of belles that did hang in the Ste|ple, meaning to haue ſent them to Englande, hadde not God of his iuſtice preuented hys iniquitie, by ſinking the Veſſell and paſſen|gers, wherein the ſayde Belle [...] ſhould haue bene conueyed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe and the lyke Artycles, were wyth ſuch odious preſumptions coloured by his ac|cuſers, as the King and Counſayle remem|bring his late faultes, and forgetting hys for|mer ſeruices (for commonly all men are of ſo harde happe, that they ſhall bee ſooner for one treſpaſſe condemned, than for a thouſande good deſertes commended) gaue commaundement that the Lorde Gray ſhoulde not onely bee re|mooued from the gouernment of the Countrey,

The Lord Gray beheaded.

1541

but alſo had him beheaded on the Tower hit the xxviij. of Iune.

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