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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But bicause manie (as in such case is euer seene) did prouide for themselues, and hid that which they got, laieng it vp for their owne store, and brought it not foorth to further the common cause, Ket and the other gouernors (for so would they be called) thought to prouide a remedie,Rebels and théeues can not kéepe to|gither with|out ministra|tion of iustice. and by common consent it was decréed, that a place should be appointed, where iudge|ments might bée exercised, as in a iudiciall hall. Whervpon they found out a great old oke, where the said Ket, and the other gouernors or deputies might fit and place themselues, to heare and determine such quareling matters as came in question. Afore whom sometime would assemble a great number of the re|bels, and exhibit complaints of such disorders, as now and then were practised among them; and there they would take order for the redressing of such wrongs and iniuries as were appointed, so that such gréedie vagabounds as were readie to spoile more than séemed to stand with the pleasure of the said go|uernors, and further than there commissions would beare, were committed to prison.The trée of reformation. This oke they na|med the trée of reformation.