Compare 1577 edition: 1 He confirmed the liberties and franchises of the ci|tie of London, and granted that the maior of the same citie for the time being might sit in all places of iudgement within the liberties thereof for cheefe iustice,The franchi|ses of the citie of London confirmed. aboue all other, the kings person onelie excep|ted; and that euerie alderman that had béene maior should be iustice of peace through all the citie of Lon|don and countie of Middlesex; and euerie alderman that had not béene maior, should be iustice of peace within his owne ward. He granted also to the citi|zens, that they should not be constreined to go foorth of the citie to anie warres in defense of the land, and that the franchises of the citie should not be seized from thenceforth into the kings hands for anie cause, but onelie for treason and rebellion shewed by the whole citie. Also Southwarke was appointed to be vnder the rule of the citie, and the maior of Lon|don to be bailiffe of Southwarke, and to ordeine such a substitute in the same borough as pleased him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the first yeare of this kings reigne,Records of Burie. we find in records belonging to the abbeie of S. Edmundsbu|rie in Suffolke, that the inhabitants of that towne raised a sore commotion against the abbat & moonks of the same abbeie, and that at seuerall times, as first on the wednesdaie next after the feast of the conuer|sion of S. Paule, in the said first yeare of this kings reigne, one Robert Foxton, Richard Draiton, and a great number of other, assembling themselues togi|ther in warlike order and araie, assaulted the said ab|beie, brake downe the gates, windowes, and doores, entered the house by force, and assailing certeine moonks and seruants that belonged to the abbat, did beat, wound, and euill intreat them, brake open a number of chests, coffers, and forssets, tooke out chali|ces of gold and siluer, books, vestments, and other or|naments of the church, beside a great quantitie of rich plate, and other furniture of household, apparell, armour, and other things, beside fiue hundred pounds in readie coine, & also three thousand florens of gold.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 All these things they tooke and caried awaie, togi|ther with diuerse charters, writings, & miniments, as thrée charters of Knute sometime king of Eng|land, foure charters of king Hardiknute, one charter of king Edward the confessor, two charters of king Henrie the first, & other two charters of king Hen|rie the third, which charters concerned as well the foundation of the same abbeie, as the grants and confirmations of the possessions and liberties be|longing thereto. Also they tooke awaie certeine wri|tings obligatorie, in the which diuerse persons were bound for the paiement of great summes of monie, and deliuerie of certeine wines vnto the hands of the said abbat. Moreouer they tooke awaie with them ten seuerall buls, concerning certeine exemptions and immunities granted to the abbats and moonks of Burie by sundrie bishops of Rome.