Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In the moneth of October, doctor Lée and other were sent to visit the abbeies,Uisitation of religious hou|se [...]. priories, and nunries in England, who set all those religious persons at libertie that would forsake their habit, and all that were vnder the age of foure and twentie yéeres and the residue were closed vp that would remaine. Fur|ther, they tooke order that no men should haue accesse to the houses of women, nor women to the houses of men, except it should be to heare their seruice. The abbat or prior of the house, where anie of the brethren was willing to depart, was appointed to giue to e|uerie of them a priests gowne for his habit, and for|tie shillings in monie, the nunnes to haue such appa|rell as secular women ware, and to go whither them liked best. ¶The eleuenth of Nouember was a great procession at London for [...]oie of the French kings recouerie of health from a dangerous sicknesse. ¶In December a surueie was taken of all chanteries, and the names of them that had the gift of them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The princesse Dowager [...]eng at K [...]imbalton, fell into hir last sicknesse,1536. The ladie Katharine Dowager decease [...]h. whereof the king being ad|uertised, appointed the emperors ambassador that was legier here with him named Eustachius Capu|tius, to go to visit hir, and to doo his commendations to hir, and will hir to be of good comfort. The ambas|sador with all diligence did his duetie therein, com|forting hir the best he might: but she within six daies after, perceiuing hir selfe to wax verie weake and féeble, and to féele death approching at hand, caused one of hir gentlewomen to write a letter to the king, commending to him hir daughter and his, be|seeching him to stand good father vnto hir: and further desired him to haue some consideration of hir gen|tlewomen that had serued hir, and to sée them besto|wed in marriage. Further, that it would please him to appoint that hir seruants might haue their due wages, and a yéeres wages beside. This in effect was all that she requested, and so immediatlie herevpon she departed this life the eight of Ianuarie at Kimbalton aforesaid, and was buried at Peter|borow. ¶The nine and twentith of Ianuarie quéene Anne was deliuered of a child before hir time, which was borne dead.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 On the fourth of Februarie the parlement be|gan, in the which (amongst other things) enacted,Religious houses giuen to the king. all religious houses of the value of three hundred marks and vnder, were giuen to the king, with all the lands and goods to them belonging. I. Stow. The number of these houses were thrée hundred seauentie and six; the va|lue of their lands yearlie aboue two and thirtie thou|sand pounds; their moouable goods one hundred thousand; the religious persons put out of the same houses, amounted to the number of aboue 10000. This yéere was William Tindall burnt at a towne betwixt Bruxels and Maclin called Uillefort.William Tin|dall burnt. This Tindall, otherwise called Hichins, was borne in the marches of Wales, and hauing a desire to translate and publish to his countrie diuerse books of the bible in English, and doubting to come in trouble for the same, if he should remaine here in England, got him ouer into the parties of beyond the sea, where he translated not onelie the new testament into the English toong, but also the fiue bookes of Moses, Io|sua, Iudicum, Ruth, the books of the kings, and Pa|ralipomenon, Nehemias, or the first of Esdras, and the prophet Ionas.