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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Although this offense was great and heinous; yet there succéeded a more mischiefe:A rebellion in the north for a tax granted by parlement. for incontinent|lie (to cloke this presumptuous murther) the Nor|therne men got them to armour, and assembling to|gither, chose them a capteine, no lesse seditious than desirous of trouble,Sir Iohn E|gremond cap|teine rebell. called sir Iohn Egremond knight; and passing by the countries, they published and declared that they would bid the king battell on|lie in defense of their liberties & common fréedome, of the which he went about to beereaue them. But when the matter should come to be tried with blowes, their harts so fainted that they scattered a|waie, euerie man séeking to saue himselfe by flight: but that little auailed them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 For the king hearing of this businesse, sent foorth Thomas earle of Surreie (whome not long before he had deliuered out of the Tower,Thomas erle of Surrie sent with a power against the north rebels. and receiued to his speciall fauour) with a crue of men, to chastise those rebels of the north parts, who skirmished with a cer|teine companie of them, and them discomfited, and tooke aliue Iohn a Chamber, the first beginner of this rebellion. The king himselfe road after into Yorkeshire, of whose comming the sturdie rebels were so abashed and afraid, that they fled more and lesse: which afterward were apprehended, and puni|shed EEBO page image 770 according to their demerits. Yet the king of his clemencie pardoned the innocent people, and ex|ecuted the chiefe procurers.Iohn a Chã|ber hanged like an arch|traitor. For Iohn a Chamber was hanged at Yorke on a gibbet set vpon a square paire of gallowes like an archtraitor, and his com|plices and lowd disciples were hanged on the lower gallowes round about their maister, to the terrible example of other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Sir Iohn Egremond fi [...]eth into Flanders.But sir Iohn Egremond fled into Flanders to the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie, that euer en|uied the prosperitie of king Henrie. After this the king returned to London, leauing the earle of Sur|reie to rule the north parts, and appointed sir Richard Tunstall, a man of great wit and policie, to gather the subsidie to him due of the people. This yeare the king borrowed of euerie alderman of London two hundred pounds,The king bo|roweth a gret summe of mo|nie of the chã|ber of Londõ. and of the Chamber nine thousand eightie two pounds seuenteene shillings foure pence; which he repaied againe to the vttermost, with great equitie and thankefulnes. [A vertue verie lau|dable in this good king, and so much the more note|worthie as it is rare; speciallie in mightie men and great estates of the world, that count what soeuer they can catch their owne, as though the pursses of the people were theirs to possesse at pleasure & vse at lust, without conscience or care of restitution. Which foule fault Ecclesiasticus noteth (affirming that all is lost that is lent them) in expresse words, saieng:

Reddere magnates nolunt, quae mutuasumunt,
G [...]. Ha. in Ec|cle, cap. 8. Mutua quae trades interijsse scias.]

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