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Compare 1577 edition: 1 A few moneths before the mariage of prince Ar|thur, Edmund de la Poole earle of Suffolke, sonne to Iohn duke of Suffolke, and ladie Elizabeth sister to king Edward the fourth, being bold and rash withall, was indicted of murther, for s [...]eaing of a meane person in his rage & furie. And although the king pardoned him whome he might iustlie haue put to death for that offense; yet bicause he was brought to the barre before the kings Bench,Edmund erl [...] of Suffolke flieth into Flanders. and arraigned (which fact he tooke as a great blemish to his honour) shortlie after vpon that displeasure he fled into Flan|ders vnto his aunt the ladie Margaret, the king not being priuie to his going ouer. Neuerthelesse, whe|ther EEBO page image 790 he was persuaded by his fréends therevnto, whom the king had willed to deale with him therein; or whether vpon trust of his innocencie: true it is that he returned againe, and excused himselfe to the king, so that he thought him to be giltlesse of anie crime that might be obiected against him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But when the mariage betwixt the prince & the ladie Katharine of Spaine was kept at London, this erle either for that he had passed his compasse in excessiue charges and sumptuousnesse at that great triumph and solemnitie, and by reason thereof was farre run into debt; either else through the procurement of his aunt the foresaid ladie Margaret; or pricked with some priuie enuie, which could not patientlie with o|pen eies behold king Henrie (being of the aduerse faction to his linage) so long to reigne in wealth and felicitie:The discon|tented mind of the earle of Suffolke. in conclusion with his brother Richard fled againe into Flanders. This departure of the earle sore vexed the king, doubting of some new trouble to insue thereof.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The kings woonted po|licie now a|gaine practi|sed.But yet to vnderstand the full meaning of the said earle, the king vsed his old fetch: for immediat|lie after the earle was fled, he appointed sir Robert Curson, whome he had aduanced to the order of knighthood, and made capteine of Hammes castell, a valiant man and a circumspect, to dissemble him|selfe one of that conspiracie; who went into Fland|ers, to espie what was doone there by the ladie Mar|garet, and hir nephue the earle of Suffolke. After that the said sir Robert Curson was thus gone into Flanders, the king to put him out of all suspicion with the said ladie Margaret and the earle, caused the said earle, and sir Robert Curson, and fiue persons more to be accurssed at Paules crosse, the first sun|daie of Nouember, as enimies to him and his realme.

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