Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this proclamation was notified abroad, all such as had béene constreined either by right or by wrong (as Polydor saith) to paie anie thing for anie forfeitures of lawes and customes by them trans|gressed, came flocking to the court, & there declared their gréefs, in what sort they had wrongfullie béene compelled (as they surmised) to paie this or that summe. The councell heard euerie mans complaint, and such as were found to haue paid anie thing with|out plaine proofe of iust cause, they tooke such order for them, that they had their monie againe. Which being once knowne, it was a strange thing to sée how thicke other came in;Multitudes of suters what shifts they made to be heard. yea euen those that had béene worthilie fined & punished for their disorderlie trans|gressions, making earnest sute for restitution, fei|ning and forging manie things to make their cause séeme good, and to stand with equitie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And the better to be heard in their sute, they made friends as well with bribes and large gifts as other|wise, leauing no waies vnassaied to compasse their desires. Which gréedines in such multitude of suters, brought the commissioners, and others that had delt in the forfeitures into danger, and did themselues no good: for the councell perceiuing that it was not pos|sible to satisfie them all, refused to heare anie further complaints or sutes for restitution: but thought it best to commit those to prison, by whom the complai|nants pretended themselues to haue beene wronged. And herevpon was sir Richard Empson knight,Empson and Dudleie com|mitted to the Tower. and Edmund Dudleie esquier, great councellors to the late king attached, and brought to the Tower, there|by to quiet mens minds, that made such importu|nate sute to haue their monie againe restored, which in the late kings daies they had béene compelled to EEBO page image 800 disburse, thorough the rigorous procéedings, as they alleged, of the said two councellors, and others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Trulie great exclamation was made against them, as often happeneth; that where anie thing is doone contrarie to the liking of the people, those that be dealers vnder the prince, and by his commande|ment procéed in the execution thereof, run in hatred of the multitude. But how so euer it was, their ap|prehension and committing to prison was thought by the wise to be procured by the malice of them that in the late kings daies were offended with their au|thoritie. Shortlie after (as Edward Hall saith) were apprehended diuerse other persons,Promoters punished. that were called promoters, as Canbie, Page, Smith, Derbie, Wright, Simson, and Stocton; of which the more part ware papers, and stood on the pillorie. [And (as an other saith, I.S. pag. 893. who termeth them ringleaders of false quests in London) they rode about the citie with their faces to the horsses tailes, and papers on their heads, and after they had beene set on the pillorie in Corne|hill, they were brought againe to Newgate, where they died all within seauen daies after for verie shame.]