Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now although by this meanes all things séemed to be brought in good and perfect order, yet there lac|ked a wrest to the harpe, to set all the strings in a monocord and perfect tune, which was the matrimo|nie to be finished betweene the king and the ladie E|lizabeth, daughter to king Edward. Which like a good prince, according to his oth, & promise, he did both so|lemnize & consummate shortlie after, that is to saie, on the eightéenth daie of Ianuarie.King Henrie the seuenth ta|keth to wife Elizabeth el|dest daughter of Edward the fourth. By reason of which marriage, peace was thought to descend out of heauen into England, considering that the lines of Lancaster and Yorke were now brought into one knot, and connexed togither, of whose two bodies one heire might succeed to rule and inioie the whole mo|narchie and realme of England, which before was rent and diuided into factions & partakings, where|by manie a mans life was lost, great spoiles made of peoples goods, wast of wealth, worship, and honor, all which ended in this blessed and gratious conne|xion, authorised by God, as our Anglorum praelia saith:

Hoc Deus omnipotens pacis confecerat author,In Hen. 7.

Ciuilísque habuit tandem contentio finem.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Shortlie after,Yeomen of the gard first brought in. for the better preseruation of his roiall person, he constituted and ordeined a certeine number, as well of archers, as of diuerse other per|sons, hardie, strong, and actiue to giue dailie atten|dance on his person, whom he named yeomen of his gard, which president men thought that he learned of the French king when he was in France. For it is not remembred, that anie king of England before that daie vsed anie such furniture of dailie souldiers. ¶ In this same yéere a new kind of sickenes inuaded suddenlie the people of this land, passing through the same from the one end to the other. It began about the one and twentith of September, and continued vntill the latter end of October, being so sharpe and deadlie, that the like was neuer heard of to anie mans remembrance before that time.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 For suddenlie a deadlie burning sweat so assai|led their bodies,The swea|ting sicke|nesse. and distempered their bloud with a most ardent heat, that scarse one amongst an hun|dred that sickened did escape with life: for all in ma|ner as soone as the sweat tooke them, or within a short time after, yéelded the ghost. Beside the great number which deceassed within the citie of London, two maiors successiuelie died within eight daies and sir aldermen. At length, by the diligent obseruation of those that escaped (which marking what things had EEBO page image 764 doone them good, and holpen to their deliuerance, vsed the like againe. When they fell into the same disease, the second or third time, as to diuerse it chanced, a remedie was found for that mortall maladie, which was this.A remedie for the sweating sickenesse. If a man on the day time were taken with the sweat, then should he streight lie downe with all his clothes and garments, and continue in his sweat foure and twentie houres, after so moderate a sort as might be.