Compare 1577 edition: 1 After which proclamation thus published, a gentle|man of Kent named Alexander Eden awaited so his time,Capteine of Kent taken & beheaded. that he tooke the said Cade in a garden in Sussex: so that there he was slaine at Hothfield, and brought to London in a cart, where he was quarte|red; his head set on London bridge, and his quarters sent to diuers places to be set vp in the shire of Kent. After this, the king himselfe came into Kent, and there sat in iudgement vpon the offendors: and if he had not mingled his iustice with mercie; more than fiue hundred by rigor of law had beene iustlie put to EEBO page image 636 execution. Yet he punishing onelie the stubborne heads, & disordered ringleaders, pardoned the igno|rant and simple persons, to the great reioising of all his subiects. Abr. Fl. ex I. St. 663, 664. ¶ But saith another, the king sent his commissioners into Kent, and caused inquirie to be made of this riot in Canturburie, where for the same eight men were iudged and executed, and in other townes of Kent and Sussex was doone the like exe|cution.

This yeare the commons also in diuerse parts of England, as in Sussex, Salisburie, Wiltshire, and other places, did much harme to manie persons, among the which, on the nine and twentith of Iune, William Ascoth bishop of Salisburie (after he had said masse at Edington) was by his owne tenants drawne from the altar, in his albe with his stole about his necke to the top of an hill,The bishop of Salisburie murthered. and there by them shamefullie murthered, and after spoiled to the naked skin: they renting his bloudie shirt, tooke eue|rie man a péece, and made boast of their wickednesse. The daie before, his chariot was robbed, to the value of ten thousand markes. Soldiours made a fraie a|gainst the maior of London the same daie he tooke his charge at Westminster,A fray in Lõ|don against the maior. at night comming from saint Thomas of Acres, after he had béene at Paules.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French king vnderstanding all the ciuill discord and rebellious sturs in England, made ther|of his foundation, hoping to get into his hands and possession the duchie of Aquitaine: and therevpon sent the earles of Ponthienure and Perigort to laie siege to the towne of Bergerat, situate vpon the ri|uer of Dourdon, of which towne was capteine Iohn Gedding, who vpon reasonable conditions rendred the towne. But yet the lord Camois, sir George Seimor, and sir Iohn Arundell, with diuers other valiant capteins, hauing gouernance of the countrie, manned townes, gathered people, and re|comforted the fainting harts of the Gascoignes in all that they could, and withall sent letters ouer into England, certifieng to the kings maiestie, that with|out spéedie aid, and readie succours, the whole coun|trie was like to be conquered and woone out of the Englishmens possession.