Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The Persies to make their part séeme good, deui|sed certeine articles,The archbish. o [...] Yorke of counsell with the Persies in conspiracie. by the aduise of Richard Scroope, archbishop of Yorke, brother to the lord Scroope, whome king Henrie had caused to be behea|ded at Bristow. These articles being shewed to di|uerse noblemen, and other states of the realme, moo|ued them to fauour their purpose, Thom. Wals. in so much that manie of them did not onelie promise to the Persies aid and succour by words, but also by their writings and seales confirmed the same. Howbeit when the matter came to triall; the most part of the confede|rates abandoned them and at the daie of the conflict left them alone. Thus after that the conspirators had discouered themselues, the lord Henrie Persie desi|rous to procéed in the enterprise, vpon trust to be as|sisted by Owen Glendouer, the earle of March, & o|ther, assembled an armie of men of armes and ar|chers foorth of Cheshire and Wales.

The earle of Worcester go|uernour to the prince slippeth from him.

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Compare 1577 edition: 1 These noble men, to make their conspiracie to séeme excusable,The pretense of y^e Persies, as they publi|shed it abroad. besides the articles aboue mentio|ned, sent letters abroad, wherein was conteined, that their gathering of an armie tended to none other end, but onlie for the safegard of their owne persons, and to put some better gouernment in the common|wealth. For whereas taxes and tallages were dailie leuied, vnder pretense to be imploied in defense of the realme, the same were vainlie wasted, and vnpro|fitablie consumed: and where through the slanderous reports of their enimies, the king had taken a gree|uous displeasure with them, they d [...]st not appeare personallie in the kings presence, vntill the prelats and barons of the realme had obteined of the king licence for them to come and purge themselues be|fore him, by lawfull triall of their péeres, whose iudge|ment (as they pretended) they would in no wise re|fuse. Manie that saw and heard these letters, did com|mend their diligence, and highlie praised their assu|red fidelitie and trustinesse towards the common|wealth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But the king vnderstanding their cloaked drift, deuised (by what meanes he might) to quiet and ap|pease the commons, and deface their contriued for|geries, and therefore he wrote an answer to their li|bels,The kings answer to the Persies libell. that he maruelled much, sith the earle of Nor|thumberland, and the lord Henrie Persie his sonne, had receiued the most part of the summes of monie granted to him by the cleargie and communaltie, for defense of the marches, as he could euidentlie prooue what should mooue them to complaine and raise such manifest slanders. And whereas he vnderstood, that the earles of Northumberland and Worcester, and the lord Persie had by their letters signified to their freends abroad, that by reason of the slanderous re|ports of their enimies, they durst not appeare in his presence, without the mediation of the prelats and nobles of the realme, so as they required pledges, whereby they might safelie come afore him, to de|clare and alledge what they had to saie in proofe of their innocencie, he protested by letters sent foorth vnder his seale, that they might safelie come and go, without all danger, or anie manner of indamage|ment to be offered to their persons.