Compare 1577 edition: 121.1. The forme of a warrant granted out by the rebels to take vp vittels.
The forme of a warrant granted out by the rebels to take vp vittels.
_WE the kings friends & deputies, doo grant licence to all men, to prouide and bring into the campe at Mousehold, all maner of cat|tell, and prouision of vittels, in what place soeuer they may find the same: so that no violence or iniurie bee doone to any honest or poore man. Commanding all persons as they render the kings honor and roiall ma|iestie, and the releefe of the common welth, to be obedient to vs the gouernors, and to those whose names insue.
Signed Robert Ket.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then followed in order a long list of names, for the number of the gouernors was great, as they that beside the chéefe capteins had chosen out of euerie hundred two, and there were six and twentie hun|dreds. By vertue of such commissions, manie that were of good worship and credit in the countrie, whom the rebels in their rage had condemned,Gentlemen imprisoned. were fetched from their houses, and other places where they might be found, and being brought to the campe, were committed to prison. Also the ditches and hed|ges, wherewith the commons abrode in the countrie were inclosed, were throwne downe, & manie were warned and called foorth from sundrie parts, to come and take part with them in these tumultuous vp|rores. And all these things were doone, the maior, maister Watson, and maister Aldrich not onlie hol|ding their peace and winking thereat, but also some|time after a maner giuing their consent to the same. For to haue resisted them had béene but follie, and the waie to haue put themselues in danger of de|struction, and their countrie too.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The honest citizens of Norwich in this meane while remained in great perplexitie, hearing no|thing from the king nor his councell. They therefore being vncerteine what to doo, abode in the citie, till they might vnderstand what order it should please the king to take for the quieting of these troubles. The cause why the councell was thus slacke in proui|ding remedie against the Norffolke rebels, was: for that they were busie in quieting the troubles in the inner part of the realme about London, and other places (as before ye haue heard) by meanes whereof the power of these Norffolke rebels still increased, so that there were assembled togither into Kets campe, to the number of sixtéene thousand vngratious vn|thrifts,The number of the rebels. who by the aduise of their capteins fortified themselues, and made prouision of artillerie, powder and other abiliments, which they fetched out of ships, gentlemens houses, and other places where any was to be found, and withall spoiled the countrie of all the cattell, riches and coine, on which they might laie hands.