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Compare 1577 edition: 1 After Christmas the parlement began, [...]534 wherein the forenamed Elizabeth Barton and other hir com|pli [...]es were attainted of treason,Elizabeth Barton at|tainted. for sundrie practised deuises and tales by them aduanced, put in vre, and [...]old, sounding to the vtter reproch, perill, and de|struction of the kings person, his honour, fame and dignitie: for they had of a diuelish intent put in the heads of manie of the kings subiects; that to the said Elizabeth Barton was giuen knowledge by reue|lation from God and his saints, that if the king pro|céeded to the diuorse, and maried another, he should not be king of this realme one moneth after, and in the reputation of God not one daie nor houre.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This Elizabeth first through sickenesse, being of|tentimes brought as it were into a transe, whereby hir visage and countenance became maruellouslie altered at those times when shee was so vexed, at length, by the incouraging, procurement, and infor|mation of the forenamed Richard Master person of Aldington, she learned to counterfeit such maner of transes (after she came to perfect health) as in hir sickenes by force of the disease she had bene acquain|ted with: so that she prac [...]sed, vsed, and shewed vnto the people diuerse maruellous and sundre alterati|ons of the sensible parts of hir bodie, craftilie vtte|ring in hir said feigned and false transes, diuerse and manie counterfeit, vertuous, and holie words, tending to the re [...]uke of sin, and reproouing of such new opinions as then began to rise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 And to bring the people the more in beliefe with hir hypocriticall dooings, she was counselled to saie in those hir transes, that she should neuer be perfect|lie whole, till she had visited an image of our ladie, at a place called Court at Stréet, within the parish of Aldington aforesaid. Thither was she brought, and by the meanes of the said Richard Master, and Ed|ward Bocking, that was now made of counsell in the matter, there assembled about two thousand per|sons at the daie appointed of hir thither comming, to sée the miracle. At which daie, being brought be|fore all that assemblie and multitude of people, shee falselie feigned and shewed vnto the people in the chappell of our ladie there in Court at Street,A forged miracle. manie alterations of hir face, and other outward sensible parts of hir bodie, and in those transes she vttered woonderous words, as she was before subtilie and craftilie induced, and taught by the said Edward Bocking and Richard Master.

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