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Compare 1577 edition: 1 This was the reward of the feined glose and coun|terfeit comment of Perkin Warbecke, the which as by his false surmises in his life time had brought manie honourable personages to their deaths, and vndoone manie an honest man: so now at his death he brought other of the same sort to their not altogi|ther vndeserued punishment. And amongest others Edward Plantagenet the forenamed erle of War|wike, which (as the fame went) consented to breake prison, and to depart out of the realme with Perkin (which in prisoners is high treason) was the one and twentith daie of the said moneth arreigned at West|minster before the earle of Oxenford then high ste|ward of England of the said treason, which (whether it were by intisement and persuasion of other, or of his owne frée will manie doubted, bicause of his in|nocencie) confessed the fact, and submitted himselfe to the kings mercie; and vpon his confession had his iudgement,Edward Plantagenet the yoong earlẽ of Warwike beheaded. and according thervnto the eight and twentith daie of Nouember in the yeare 1499, was brought to the scaffold on the Tower hill, and there beheaded.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The fame after his death sprang abroad, that Fer|dinando king of Spaine would make no full conclu|sion of the matrimonie to be had betweene prince Arthur and the ladie Katharine daughter to the said Ferdinando, nor send hir into England as long as this earle liued. For he imagined that so long as a|nie earle of Warwike liued, England should neuer be purged of ciuill warre and priuie sedition so much was the name of Warwike in other regions had in feare and gealousie. The next yeare after there was a great plague, whereof men died in manie pla [...]s ve|rie sore;A great plague. but speciallie and most of all in the citie of London, where died in that yeare thirtie thousand. The foure and twentith of Februarie in this fifteenth EEBO page image 788 yeare of this kings reigne his third son was christe|ned and was named Edward.

Edward the kings third sonne chri|stened.

The manour of Shéene burnt & Rich|mond built in place thereof. I. S. pag. 874.

Also in this yeare was burned a place of the kings, called the manour of Shéene situate nigh the Thames side, which he af|ter builded againe sumptuouslie, and changed the name of Sheene, and called it Richmond; bicause his father and he were earles of Richmond: or (as some note) for that so manie notable and rich iewels were there burnt. He also new builded Bainards castell in London, and repaired Greenewich.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king, whether to auoid the danger of so great and perilous sickenesse, then raging, or to take occa|sion to commen with the duke of Burgognie, did personallie take his ship at Douer in the beginning of Maie,King Henrie the seuenth [...]aileth to Ca|lis. and sailed to Calis, whither the duke of Burgognie sent to him honourable personages in ambassage to welcome him into those parties, and to declare that the said duke would gladlie repair [...] personallie to his presence with such a number as the king should appoint, so that it were within no walled towne nor fortresse. For hauing denied the French king to enter into anie of his fortresses to talke with him, he would be loth now to giue a presi|dent to him to desire the like méeting. The king in|terteining the ambassadours, and thanking the duke of his courteous offer, appointed the place at saint Peters church without Calis.

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