Compare 1577 edition: 1 This doone,The earle of Cambridge and the other traitors exe|cuted. the king calling his lords againe afore him, said in words few and with good grace. Of his enterprises he recounted the honor and glorie, where|of they with him were to be partakers, the great confidence he had in their noble minds, which could not but remember them of the famous feats that their ancestors aforetime in France had atchiued, whereof the due report for euer recorded remained yet in register. The great mercie of God that had so gratiouslie reuealed vnto him the treason at hand, whereby the true harts of those afore him made so e|minent & apparant in his eie, as they might be right sure he would neuer forget it. The doubt of danger to be nothing in respect of the certeintie of honor that they should acquire, wherein himselfe (as they saw) in person would be lord and leader through Gods grace. To whose maiestie as chéeflie was knowne the equitie of his demand: euen so to his mercie did he onelie recommend the successe of his trauels. When the king had said, all the noble men knéeled downe, & promised faithfullie to serue him, dulie to obeie him, and rather to die than to suffer him to fall into the hands of his enimies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This doone, the king thought that suerlie all treason and conspiracie had beene vtterlie extinct: not suspec|ting the fire which was newlie kindled, and ceassed not to increase, till at length it burst out into such a flame, that catching the beames of his house and fa|milie, his line and stocke was cleane consumed to ashes. ¶ Diuerse write that Richard earle of Cam|bridge did not conspire with the lord Scroope & Tho|mas Graie for the murthering of king Henrie to EEBO page image 549 please the French king withall, but onelie to the in|tent to exalt to the crowne his brother in law Ed|mund earle of March as heire to Lionell duke of Clarence: after the death of which earle of March, for diuerse secret impediments, not able to haue issue, the earle of Cambridge was sure that the crowne should come to him by his wife, and to his children, of hir begotten. And therefore (as was thought) he ra|ther confessed himselfe for need of monie to be corrup|ted by the French king, than he would declare his inward mind, and open his verie intent and secret purpose, which if it were espied, he saw plainlie that the earle of March should haue tasted of the same cuppe that he had drunken, and what should haue come to his owne children he much doubted. There|fore destitute of comfort & in despaire of life to saue his children, he feined that tale, desiring rather to saue his succession than himselfe, which he did in déed: for his sonne Richard duke of Yorke not priuilie but openlie claimed the crowne, and Edward his sonne both claimed it, & gained it, as after it shall appeare. Which thing if king Henrie had at this time either doubted, or foreséene, had neuer béene like to haue come to passe, as Hall saith.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But whatsoeuer hath beene reported of the confes|sion of the earle of Cambridge, certeine it is, that in|dicted he was by the name of Richard earle of Cam|bridge of Connesburgh in the countie of Yorke knight,The effect of the earle of Cambridges indictement. and with him Thomas Graie of Heton in the countie of Northumberland and knight; for that they the twentith daie of Iulie, in the third yeare of king Henrie the fifts reigne, at Southampton, and in di|uerse other places within this realme, had conspired togither with a power of men to them associat, with|out the kings licence, to haue led awaie the lord Ed|mund earle of March into Wales, and then to haue procured him to take vpon him the supreme gouern|ment of the realme, in case that king Richard the se|cond were dead: and herwith had purposed to set foorth a proclamation there in Wales, in name of the said earle of March, as heire of the crowne a|gainst king Henrie, by the name of Henrie of Lan|caster the vsurper, to the end that by such meanes they might draw the more number of the kings liege people vnto the said earle; and further to haue con|ueied a banner of the armes of England, and a cer|teine crowne of Spaine set vpon a pallet, and laid in gage to the said earle of Cambridge,A iewell. by the king, to|gither with the said earle of March into the parties of Wales aforesaid.