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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 It was afterwards ordeined, that vpon the same daie in the which the rebels were thus subdued, the citizens yearelie should repaire to their churches, and there to heare seruice, and to haue a sermon abrode, to the which they should come togither, to giue thanks to God for their deliuerance as that daie, and this is obserued till these our times. Robert Ket and his brother William Ket were brought vp to London,The two Kets exe|cuted. where they were committed to the tower, and short|lie after arreigned of their treason and found guiltie, were brought to the tower againe, where they con|tinued till the nine and twentith of Nouember, on which daie they were deliuered to sir Edmund Windham high shiriffe of Norffolke and Suffolke, to be conueied downe into Norffolke, where Robert Ket was hanged in chains vpon the top of Norwich castell: and William Ket his brother on the top of Windmondham stéeple, in which towne they had both dwelled, and conspired with others to go for|ward with their wicked rebellion.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This William Ket (as was thought) had beene sure of his pardon, if he had not plaied the traitorous hypocrite:William Ket a dissembling traitor. for vpon his submission at the first to my lord marquesse of Northampton, at his comming downe to suppresse this rebellion, he was sent to his brother to persuade him and the rest to yéeld, and re|ceiue the kings pardon: but he (like a dissembling wretch, although he promised to my lord to doo what he could in that behalfe) vpon his comming to his brother into the rebels campe, & beholding the great multitude that were there about him, he did one|lie not dissuade him and them from their traitorous rebellion, but incouraged them to persist and conti|nue in their dooings, declaring what a small num|ber of souldiers the marquesse brought with him, nothing able to resist such a puissance as was there assembled. So that if it had not beene thorough the wicked persuasion of him, and some others at that time, not onelie Robert Ket himselfe, but also all the multitude beside, would haue submitted themselues, and receiued the kings pardon, to the preseruation of manie a good mans life that after died in the quarrell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now to returne somewhat backe to the doo|ings in Scotland. In the meane while that such hurls were in hand here in England, ye shall vnderstand that in the beginning of this summer, the king by aduise of his councell sent foorth a nauie by sea to|wards Scotland, the which arriuing in the Forth, and comming before Lieth, saluted the towne with cannon shot, & remaining there ten or twelue daies, tooke in the meane time the Ile of Iusketh, leauing therein foure ensignes of Englishmen,Iusketh taken. and one of Italians, with certeine pioners to fortifie the place. But the Frenchmen (as in the Scotish historie yée shall find more at large) after the departure of the English nauie, recouered that Ile againe out of the Englishmens possession (after they had kept it six|téene daies) with the slaughter of capteine Cotton their generall, capteine Applebie, & one Iasper that was capteine of the Italians, beside others. After the recouering of this Ile,Monsieur be Desse retur|neth into France. monsieur be Desse retur|ned into France, leauing his charge to monsieur de Thermes latelie before there arriued: who after the departure of the said Desse, with a campe volant did what he could to stop the Englishmen within Ha|dington from vittels.The earle of Rutland. But notwithstanding the earle of Rutland being lieutenant of the north, did not on|lie vittell it, but put the French armie in danger of an ouerthrow, as it was thought must néeds haue fo|lowed, if they had not with more spéed than is vsed in a common march slipt awaie, after they perceiued the English armie so neare at their elbowes.

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