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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The sixtéenth of Ianuarie the parlement began at Westminster,A parlement. in the which the lords and commons exhibited certeine petitions to the king. First, that he would not vex himselfe with the quéenes offense, and that she and the ladie Rochford might be attain|ted by parlement:The petitiõs of the lords & commons of the parlement i [...] the king. and to auoid protracting of time, they besought him to giue his roiall assent thereto, vnder his great seale, without staieng for the end of the parlement. Also, that Diram and Culpeper be|fore attainted by the common law, might also be at|tainted by parlement, & that Agnes duches of Norf|folke, and Katharine countesse of Bridgewater hir daughter, which for concealing the said offense, were committed to the towre, and indicted of misprision, & the lord William Howard arreigned of the same, might likewise be attainted. Also, that who soeuer had spoken or doone anie thing in detestation of hir naughtie life, should be pardoned.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 To these petitions the king granted, thanking the commons,The quéene and other at|tainted by parlement, for that it appéered they tooke his griefe to be theirs: wherevpon the quéene and the ladie Roch|ford were attainted by both the houses. On the tenth of Februarie,The quéen [...] sent to the towre. the quéene was conueied from Sion to the towre by water, the duke of Suffolke, the lord priuie seale, and the lord great chamberleine, hauing the conduction of hir. The next daie after being sa|turdaie, and the eleuenth of Februarie, the king did send his roiall assent by his great seale, and then all the lords were in their robes, and the common house called vp, & there the act was read, and his assent de|clared. And so on the thirtéenth daie, those two ladies were beheaded on the greene within the towre with an ax,She is be|headed. where they confessed their offenses, and died re|pentant.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Before this, on the thrée and twentith daie of Ia|nuarie was the king proclamed king of Ireland,The king proclamed king of Ire|land. as it was enacted both by authoritie of the parlement here, and also of an other parlement holden at Du|blin in Ireland, there begun the thirteenth of Iune last past, before sir Anthonie Saintleger knight, and the kings deputie there, where as till that time the kings of England were onlie intituled lords of Ire|land. In the beginning of March died sir Arthur Plantagenet vicount Lisle, bastard sonne to Ed|ward the fourth, in the towre of London vnattain|ted, when he should haue béene deliuered and set at libertie.

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