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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the two and twentith of September, Rafe Egerton, seruant to the lord Audleie, lord chancel|lor, and one Thomas Harman seruant to one master Flightwood, were drawne, hanged, and quartered, the one for counterfeiting and antidating of the kings seale in a sign [...]t, wherewith he sealed licen|ces for deuizens, vnder the name of the clearkes of the chancerie: and the other, that is to saie Harman, for writing them. One Tuckefield, being of their faction, robbed the lord Audleies chappell and fled, who being afterward apprehended at Calis, which towne he would haue betraied, he slue himselfe with a dagger. In the end of this yeare, the French king made a strong castell at Ard,A Castell built [...] Ard. and also a bridge ouer into the English pale, which bridge the crew of Calis did beat downe, and the Frenchmen built it vp a|gaine, but the Englshmen beat it downe againe. After this, the K. sent about fiftéene hundred worke|men to fortifie the towne of Guisnes,Guisnes fortified. and sent with them fiue hundred men of warre to gard them.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 It was reported in France, that a mightie ar|mie was come ouer foorth of England with great ordinance: which brute caused the French king to send to the frontiers of Picardie the duke of Uan|dosme, and other capteins with all spéed to defend the same. The king of England hearing thereof, sent the earles of Surrie, and Southampton, and the lord Russell,The earles of Surrie and Southamton sent to Calis. high admerall into the marches of Calis, to set order there, and after them he likewise sent two hundred light horssemen of the borders of Scotland, whom the Frenchmen called Stradiots. The lords hauing set order in things, shortlie returned. A boie, oneRichard Mekins, not past fiftéene yeares of age, was burnt in Smithfield,Richard Me|kins burnt. Sée Iohn Fox in the Acts & Monuments. for speaking against the sacrament, and contrarie to the statute of the six ar|ticles. The bishop of London was thought in great fault, for procuring that terrible execution, seeing the yoong fellow was but an ignorant foole without learning, and gladlie recanted that wherewith he was charged.

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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the latter end of this yeare, doctor Sam|son bishop of Chichester, and doctor Wilson, which had béene committed to the tower (as before ye haue heard) were now pardoned of the king, and set a|gaine at libertie. In the beginning of this yeare, fiue priests in Yorkeshire began a new rebellion, with the assent of one Leigh, Anno Reg. 33. A new rebel|lion practised in Yorkshire. a gentleman, and nine temporall men, all which persons were apprehended, and in diuers places put to execution. The said Leigh and two other, the one named Taterfall a clothier, & the other Thornton a yeoman, on the seuentéenth of Maie, were drawne through London to Tiburne, and there executed. And sir Iohn Neuill knight, and ten other persons,

Sir Iohn Neuill exe|cuted.

The countesse of Salisburie beheaded. Execution of two of the gard.

died for the same cause at Yorke. The same daie, Margaret countesse of Salisburie, that had remained a long time prisoner in the tower, was beheaded there within the tower. She was the last of the right line and name of Plantagenet. The ninth of Iune for example sake, two of the kings gard, the one named Damport, and the other Chap|man, were hanged at Greenwich by the friers wall, for robberies which they had committed.

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