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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The occasion of his trouble for the which he was committed to the towre,The occasion of sir Arthur Plantage|nets trouble. rose vpon suspicion that he should be priuie to a practise, which some of his men (as Philpot and Brindholme executed the last yeare as before ye haue heard) had consented vnto, for the betraieng of Calis to the French, whilest he was the kings lieutenant there. But after that by due triall it was knowne that he was nothing guiltie to the matter, the king appointed sir Thomas Wriotheslie his maiesties secretarie, to go vnto him, and to deli|uer to him a ring, with a rich diamond for a token from him, & to will him to be of good chéere. For al|though in that so weightie a matter, he would not haue doone lesse to him if he had béene his owne son; yet now vpon through triall had, sith it was mani|festlie proued that he was void of all offense, he was sorie that he had béene occasioned so farre to trie his truth: and therefore willed him to be of good chéere and comfort, for he should find that he would make accompt of him as of his most true and faithfull kinsman, and not onelie restore him to his former li|bertie, but otherwise forth he readie to pleasure him in what he could. Master secretarie set foorth this message with such effectuall words, as he was an elo|quent and well spoken man, that the lord Lisle tooke such immoderate ioy thereof,The lord Li|sle dieth tho|rough immo|derate ioy. that his hart being op|pressed therwith, he died the night following through too much reioising. After his deceasse, the twelfe of the same moneth of March, sir Iohn Audeleie sonne and heire to the said lord Lisles wife, was at West|minster created vicount Lisle. ¶The seuentéenth of March one Margaret Dauie a yoong woman, being a seruant, was boiled in Smithfield for poisoning of hir mistres with whome she dwelt, and diuerse other persons.

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