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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 To be breefe, the king by his meanes, and other such diligent inquisition as he made, tried out such as he suspected, partlie to be deuisers of mischéefe a|gainst him, and partlie to beare no sincere affection towards his person, so that he could readilie name them: whereof a great part were within few daies apprehended and taken. And amongst them Willi|am lord Courtneie, sonne to the earle of Deuon|shire, which maried the ladie Katharine, daughter to king Edward the fourth; lord William de la Poole, brother to the foresaid earle of Suffolke, sir Iames Tirrell, & sir Iohn Windam. Both the Williams were rather taken of suspicion, bicause they were so neere of kin to the conspirator, than for anie prooued matter. But sir Iames Tirrell and Ioh [...] Windam, bicause they were traitors,Tirrell and Windam beheaded. and so attainted, the sixt daie of Maie after their apprehension, they were on the Tower hill beheaded.

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