Compare 1577 edition: 1 The conspirators, to wit, the earles of Kent and Salisburie, sir Rafe Lumlie, and others, supposing that the king had not vnderstood their malicious pur|pose, the first sundaie of the new yeare, Harding. which fell in the octaues of the Innocents, came in the twilight of the euening vnto Windsore with foure hundred armed men, where vnderstanding that the king was withdrawne vpon warning had of their purposed in|tention, they foorthwith return [...]d backe, and came first vnto Sunnings, a manor place not farre from Reading, where the quéene wife to king Richard then laie. Here setting a good countenance of the matter, the earle of Kent declared in presence of the queenes seruants that the lord Henrie of Lancaster was fled from his presence with his children and fréends,The words of the earle of Kent. and EEBO page image 516 had shut vp himselfe & them in the Tower of Lon|don, as one afraid to come abroad, for all the brags made heretofore of his manhood: and therefore (saith he) my intention is (my lords) to go to Richard that was, is, and shall be our king, who being alreadie es|caped foorth of prison, lieth now at Pomfret, with an hundred thousand men. And to cause his spéech the better to be beléeued, he tooke awaie the kings cogni|sances from them that ware the same, as the collars from their necks, and the badges of cressants from the sleeues of the seruants of houshold, and throwing them awaie, said that such cognisances were no lon|ger to be borne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus hauing put the quéene in a vaine hope of that which was nothing so, they departed from thence vnto Wallingford, and after to Abington, intising the people by all meanes possible vnto rebellion, all the waie as they went, and sending their agents a|broad for the same purpose: at length they came to Circester in the darke of the night, and tooke vp their lodgings. The inhabitants of that towne suspecting the matter, and iudging (as the truth was) these ru|mors which the lords spred abroad to be but dreams, they tooke therevpon counsell togither, got them to armor, and stopped all the entries and outgates of the Innes where these new ghestes were lodged, inso|much that when they about midnight secretlie at|tempted to haue come foorth, and gone their waies, the townesmen with bow and arrowes were readie to staie them, and keepe them in. The lords percei|uing the danger, got them to their armor and wea|pons, and did their best by force to breake through and repell the townesmen. But after they had fought from midnight till three of the clocke in the after|noone of the next daie, and perceiued they could not preuaile,The lords yeeld them|selues. they yeelded themselues to the townesmen, beseeching them to haue their liues saued, till they might come to the kings presence.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This request they had obteined, if a préest that was chapleine to one of them,A priest set fire on the houses of Circester. had not in the meane time set fire vpon certeine houses in the towne, to the end that whiles the townesmen should busie themselues to quench the fire, the lords might find meanes to es|cape. But it came nothing to passe as he imagined, for the townesmen leauing all care to saue their hou|ses from the rage of the fire, were kindled more in furie towards the lords, and so to reuenge them|selues of them they brought them foorth of the abbeie where they had them in their hands, and in the twi|light of the euening, Abr. Fl. out of Tho. Wal [...]in. pag. 404. stroke off their heads. ¶ The earle of Salisburie (saith Thomas Walsingham) who in all his life time had béene a fauourer of the Lol|lards or Wickleuists, a despiser of images, a con|temner of canons, and a scorner of the sacraments, ended his daies (as it was reported) without the He died vn|confessed. sa|crament of confession. These be the words of Thom. Wals. which are set downe, to signifie that the earle of Salisburie was a bidden gh [...]st to blockham feast with the rest: and (as it should séeme by his relation) the more maligned, bicause he was somwhat estran|ged frõ the corruption of the religion then receiued, and leaued to a sect pursued with spitefulnesse and re|uenge.