Now as the diuell would, the sundaie after at Gréenwich in the kings gallerie was Francis de Bard, who (as yee haue heard) kept an Englishmans wife and his goods, and yet he could haue no remedie; and with him were Domingo, Anthonie Caueler, and manie more strangers, and there they talking with sir Thomas Palmer knight, iested and laughed how that Francis kept the Englishmans wife,Note the sa [...]|cie, brode, shamelesse, and dishonest boa|sting of the strangers in their lewdnes sai|eng that if they had the maiors wife of London they would kéepe hir. Sir Thomas said; Sirs you haue too much fauour in England. There were diuerse Eng|lish merchants by, who heard them laugh, and were not content, in so much as one William Bolt a mer|cer said; Well you whoreson Lombards, you reiois [...] and laugh, by the masse we will one daie haue a fling at you, come when it will. And that saieng the other merchants affirmed. This tale was reported about London, and the yoong and euill disposed people said they would be reuenged on the merchants strangers as well as on the artificers strangers. ¶On monday the morow after, the king remooued to his manor of Richmond.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the eight and twentith daie of Aprill, Anno Reg. 9. Strangers iniuriouslie abused of di|uerse yoon|kers. diuerse yoong men of the citie piked quarels to certeine strangers as they passed by the stréets, some they did strike, some they buffeted, and some they threw into the kennell: wherfore the maior sent some of the Eng|lishmen to prison, as Stephan Studleie skinner, Bets, Stephanson, and diuerse other. Then sudden|lie rose a secret rumour, and no man could tell how it began, that on Maie daie next the citie would re|bell and slea all the aliens, insomuch that diuerse strangers fled out of the citie. This brute ran so into euerie mans eares, that it came to the knowledge of the kings councell, wherevpon the lord cardinall sent for the maior, and other of the councell of the citie, gi|uing them to vnderstand what he had heard.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The maior, as one ignorant of the matter, told the cardinall that he doubted not but so to gouerne the citie, as peace should be obserued.The cardi|nals aduise to the maior in this hurli-burlie. The cardinal wil|led him so to doo; and to take good heed, that if anie such riotous attempt was intended, he should with good policie preuent it. The maior came from the car|dinals house at foure of the clocke in the after noone on Maie éeuen, and in all hast sent for his brethren to the Guildhall; yet was it almost seuen of the clocke yer the assemblie was set. Upon conference had of the matter touching the rumour that was spred a|broad of the rebellion against the strangers, some thought it necessarie that a substantiall watch should be set, of the honest citizens housholders which might withstand the euill dooers, if they went about anie misrule.