Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 And for the colourable proofe thereof, such of the dukes seruants as rode with the carts of their stuffe that were taken (among which stuffe, no maruell though some were harnesse, which at the breaking vp of that houshold must néeds either be brought awaie or cast awaie) they shewed vnto the people all the waies as they went;
Lo here be the barrels of har|nesse that these traitors had priuilie conueid in their carriage to destroie the noble lords withall.This de|uise albeit that it made the matter to wise men more vnlikelie, well perceiuing that the intendors of such a purpose would rather haue had their harnesse on their backs, than to haue [...]ound them vp in battels, yet much part of the common people were therewith verie well satisfied, and said it were almesse to hang them.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the king approched néere to the citie, Ed|mund Shaw goldsmith, then maior, with William White, and Iohn Matthew shiriffes, and all the other aldermen in scarlet, with fiue hundred horsse of the citizens, in violet, receiued him reuerentlie at Har|nesie;The kings comming to London. and riding from thence accompanied him in|to the citie, which he entered the fourth daie of Maie, the first and last yeare of his reigne. But the duke of Glocester bare him in open sight so reuerentlie to the prince, with all semblance of lowlinesse, that from the great obloquie in which he was so late before, he was suddenlie fallen in so great trust, that at the councell next assembled he was made the onelie man, chosen and thought most meet to be protector of the king and his realme,The duke of Glocester made protec|tor. so that (were it destinie or were it fol|lie) the lambe was betaken to the woolfe to kéepe.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At which councell also, the archbishop of Yorke chancellor of England, which had deliuered vp the great seale to the queene, was thereof greatlie re|prooued, and the seale taken from him, and deliuered to doctor Russell bishop of Lincolne, a wise man and a good, and of much experience,The bishop [...] Lincolne made lord chancellor. and one of the best learned men vndoubtedlie that England had in his time. Diuerse lords and knights were appointed vn|to diuerse roomes. The lord chamberleine and some o|ther kept still their offices that they had before. Now all were it so that the protector so sore thirsted for the finishing of that he had begun, that thought euerie daie a yeare till it were atchiued; yet durst he no fur|ther EEBO page image 717 attempt, as long as he had but halfe his preie in his hand.