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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Beside these translations, he made certeine tre|tises, and published the same, which were brought o|uer into England, and read with great desire of di|uerse, and of many sore despised and abhorred, so that proclamations were procured foorth for the condem|nation and prohibiting of his [...]oks (as before you haue heard.) Finallie, he was apprehended at Ant|werpe by meanes of one Philips an Englishman, and then scholer at Louaine. After he had remain|ed in prison a long time, and was almost forgotten, the lord Cromwell wrote for his deliuerance; but then in all hast, because he would not recant anie part of his doctrine, he was b [...]rned (as before you haue heard.) Of whose conuersation and doctrine, innocent in the world, and sincere for truth, as al|so EEBO page image 940 of his death and martyrdome, read the martyrolo|logie of Iohn Fox our ecclesiasticall chronographer Anno 1536. sub Hen. 8.

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