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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The which statute being read and well considered of, bicause there was diuerse leagues of truces be|twixt the king and diuerse other princes, as one be|twixt him and the French king,Diuers tru| [...]es betweene [...] king and [...] forren princes. and another betwixt him and the archduke of Burgognie, and another be|twixt him & the king of Spaine (all the which truces were violated by the said insurrection) it was deter|mined by the whole councell there assembled, that the kings sergeants and attournies should go to the lord chancellor, to haue a sight of all the said leagues and charters of truces, to the intent they might frame their indictments according to the matter. And note that iudge Fineux said,Iudge Fine|ux interpre|teth the said statute. that all such as were parties to the said insurrection, were guiltie of high treason, as well those that did not commit anie robberie, as those that were principall dooers therein themselues, bicause that the insurrection in it selfe was high trea|son, as a thing practised against the regall honour of our souereigne lord the king.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 And the same law holdeth of an insurrection (said Fineux) made against the statute of laborers. For so (said he) it came to passe, that certeine persons with|in the countie of Kent began an insurrection, in dis|obedience of the statute of labourers, and were at|teinted therfore of high treason, and had iudgement to be drawne, hanged, and quartered. He shewed where and when this chanced. It was further deter|mined by the said Fineux, and all the iustices of the land, that vpon the said commission of oier and terminer in London, the iustices named in the said commission,Order for pro|ceeding a|gainst the said offendors. might not arreigne the offendors, and proceed to the triall in one selfe daie, no more than might the iustices of peace. But iustices in oier might so doo, aswell as the iustices of gaole deliuerie: and as the sufficiencie of the iurors within the citie to passe betwixt the king and the said traitors, the iu|stices determined, that he that had lands, and goods, to the value of an hundred marks, should be inabled to passe vpon the said indictments. And this by the equitie of the statute of Anno vndecimo Henrici septi|mi, the which will, that no man be admitted to passe in anie inquest in London in a plée of lands, or other action, in which the damages shall passe the value of fourtie shillings, except he be woorth in lands or goods the value of an hundred markes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 On saturdaie the second of Maie, in this ninth yeare,Manie of the offendors in|dicted at Guildhall. all the commissioners, with the lord maior, al|dermen, and iustices, went to the Guildhall, where manie of the offendors were indicted, as well of the insurrection, as of the robberies by them committed against the truces. Herevpon they were arreigned, & pleading not guiltie, had day giuen till monday next insuing. On which daie being the fourth of Maie, the lord maior, the duke of Norffolke, the earle of Sur|rie and others came to sit in the Guildhall, to procéed in their oier and terminer as they were appointed. When the lords were set, the prisoners were brought through the stréets tied in ropes, some men, and some lads of thirtéene yéeres of age. Among them were diuerse not of the citie, some priests, some husband|men, and labourers.The whole number of the rebellious r [...]nt. The whole number amounted vnto two hundred thrée score and eightéene persons.

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