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Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the morrow being Corpus Christ day, on the which day it is reported that the king should talke with them at Rethereth (as before ye haue heard) af|ter that they saw that they could not haue him to come and talke with them on land, as they wished, and that now they had filled their heads full with the fume of such wines as they dranke in euerie mans celler that was set open for them, enter who would: they fell in talke with the Londoners of manie lewd deuises, as of the apprehending of traitors, and speci|allie concerning such misliking as they had of the duke of Lancaster, whom they hated aboue all other persons. And herevpon agréeing in one mind, after diuerse other of their outragious dooings, they ran the same day to the said dukes house of the Sauoie,The Sauoie the duke of Lancasters house burnt by the rebels. to the which in beautie and statelinesse of building, with all maner of princelie furniture, there was not any other in the realme comparable, which in despite of the duke, whom they called traitor, they set on fire, and by all waies and means indeuoured vtterlie to destroie it.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The shamefull spoile which they there made was wonderfull, and yet the zeale of iustice, truth, and vp|right dealing which they would seeme to shew, was as nice and strange on the other part, speciallie in such kind of misgouerned people: for in that spoiling of the dukes house, all the iewels, plate, and other rich and sumptuous furniture which they there found in great plentie they would not that any man should fare the better by it of a mite, but threw all into the fire,Strange dea|ling of the re|bels. so to be consumed; and such things as the fire could not altogither destroie, as plate and iewels, they brake and crashed in péeces, throwing the same into the Thames. One of them hauing thrust a faire siluer peece into his bosome, meaning to conueie it awaie, was espied of his fellowes, who tooke him, and cast both him and the péece into the fire; saieng they might not suffer any such thing, sith they professed themselues to be zealous of truth and iustice,The iustice of the rebels. and not théeues nor robbers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There were 32 of them, that being gotten into the celler of the Sauoie, where the dukes wines laie, dranke so much of such swéete wine as they found there, that they were not able to come foorth, but with stones & wood that fell downe as the house bur|ned, they were closed in, so that out they could not get. They laie there showting & crieng seuen daies togither, and were heard of manie, but none came to helpe them, and so finallie they perished. Now af|ter that these wicked people had thus destroied the duke of Lancasters house, and done what they could deuise to his reproch;The lawiers lodgings in the temple burnt by the rebels. they went to the temple, and burnt the men of lawes lodgings, with their bookes, writings, and all that they might lay hand vpon. Also the house of saint Iohns by Smithfield they set on fire, so that it burned for the space of seuen daies to|gither. On Friday a great number of them, estée|med to 20 thousand, went to the manor of Heiburie that belonged vnto the lord of saint Iohns, and set|ting fire on it, sought vtterlie to destroie the whole buildings about it.

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