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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the Lent season,George Fer|rers a burges of the parle|ment arrested, and what mis|chiefe insued. whilest the parlement yet con|tinued, one George Ferrers gentleman, seruant to the king, being elected a burgesse for the towne of Plimmouth in the countie of Deuonshire, in going to the parlement house, was arrested in London by a processe out of the Kings bench, at the sute of one White, for the sum of two hundred markes or there|abouts, wherein he was late afore condemned, as a suertie for the debt of one Weldon of Salisburie: which arrest being signified to sir Thomas Moile knight, then speaker of the parlement, and to the knights and burgesses there, order was taken, that the sargeant of the parlement, called S. Iohn, should foorthwith repaire to the counter in Bredstréet (whi|ther the said Ferrers was caried) and there demand deliuerie of the prisoner.