Compare 1577 edition: 1 But (saith another) when the king should come to giue his consent vnto the acts passed in the same par|lement, Whethamsted. and that the clerke of the parlement had read that statute of the attaindor of those lords; such was the kings modestie and great zeale vnto mercie, that he caused a prouiso to be put in,The kings inclination to mercie. and added vnto the same statute, that it might be lawfull vnto him at all times f [...]llie without authoritie of anie other par|lement, to pardon the same noble men, and restore them againe to their former estats, degrees, and dig|nities in all things, so they would come in vnto him, and in the spirit of humblenesse beséech him of grace and fauour. Abr. Fl. ¶Wherin the king gaue euident testimo|nie, that he was indued with those qualities of mind which the poet ascribed vnto Cesar (namelie slow to punish, & sad when he was constreined to be seuere: sith the one commended his lenitie, the other sauou|red of tyrannie) in this distichon of like termination:

Ouid. de Ponto. [...]b. 1. Est piger ad poenas princeps, ad praemia velox,

Cuí dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Herewith also order was taken for the defense of the hauens & landing places alongst the sea coasts. Sir Simon Montford,Osbert Mõt|ford esquier saith Whet|hamsted, who should also haue gone o|uer to Guines with fiue hun|dred souldiers to the aid of the duke of Summerset. with a great crew of men, was appointed to keepe the downes, and the fiue ports; and all men passing into Flanders were vpon paine of death prohibited to passe by Calis, least the lords there should borrow of them anie prest monie, as they did latelie before of the merchants of the staple the summe of eighteene thousand pounds. The lords were not ignorant of all the kings prouisions made against them, but were ascerteined dailie what was doone euen in the kings priuie chamber: wherefore first they sent a companie to Sandwich vnder the gouernance of the lord Fauconbridge,The lord Faucõbridge was chiefe of this enter|prise saith Whethamsted. who tooke the towne, & sir Simon or Osbert Mont|ford within it, and sent him with all his mates to Ca|lis, where incontinentlie he with twelue of his chiefe fellowes lost their heads on the sand before Rise|banke.Thirtéene beheaded at once.

¶The earles at Calis sent to the archbishop of Can|turburie, Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 692, 693, 694, 695, [...] 697, in [...] and to the commons of England at large certeine articles in writing, beginning thus: Wor|shipfull sirs, we the duke of Yorke, the earles of March, Warwike, and Salisburie, sued and offe|red to haue come to the king our souereigne lords most noble presence, to haue declared there afore him for our dutie to God and to his highnesse, and to the prosperitie and welfare of his noble estate, and to the common-weale of all his land as true liege men, the matters following.