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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The sargeant (as he had in charge) went to the counter, and declared to the clearks there what he had in commandement. But they and other officers of the citie were so farre from obeieng the said com|mandement, as after manie stout words they forci|blie resisted the said sargeant, whereof insued a fraie within the counter gates, betwéene the said Fer|rers and the said officers, not without hurt of either part: so that the said sargeant was driuen to defend himselfe with his mace of armes, & had the crowne thereof broken by bearing off a stroke, and his man striken downe. During this brall, the shiriffes of London, called Rowland Hill, and Henrie Suc|kliffe came thither,The shiriffes and officers denie the deli|uerie of the burgesse. to whome the sargeant complai|ned of this iniurie, and required of them the deliue|rie of the said burgesse, as afore. But they bearing with their officers, made little accompt either of his complaint or of his message, reiecting the same con|temptuouslie, with much proud language, so as the sargeant was forced to returne without the priso|ner, wheras if they had obeied authoritie, and shewed the seruice necessarilie required in their office and person, they might by their discretion haue appeased EEBO page image 956 all the broile, for wisedome assuageth the outrage & vnrestreinable furiousnes of war, as the poet saith:

Instrumenta feri vincit sapientia belli.