Compare 1577 edition: 1 This she did is colour hir wickednesse which by no meanes was [...]seable.They being returned thus backe againe into the house, the doores were opened, and the seruants re|turned home that had béene sent abroad: and being now verie late, she sent foorth hir folks againe to make inquirie for him in diuerse places; namelie, among the best in the towne where he was woont to be, who made answer, that they could tell nothing of him. Then she began to make an outcrie, and said; Neuer woman had such neighbors as I haue, and herewith wept: in somuch that hir neighbors came in, and found hir making great lamentation, pretending to maruell what was become of hir hus|band. Wherevpon, the maior and others came to make search for him.Arden a coue| [...] man and [...]errer of his priuat [...] b [...]fore common [...]. The faire was woont to be kept partlie in the towne, and partlie in the abbeie; but Arden for his owne priuat lucre & couetous gaine had this present yeare procured it to be wholie kept within the abbeie ground which he had purchased; & so reaping all the gaines to himselfe, and bereauing the towne of that portion which was woont to come to the inhabitants, got manie a bitter cursse. The maior going about the faire in this search, at length came to the ground where Arden laie: and as it hap|pened, Prune the groser getting sight of him,Ardens dead bodie is descri|ed by one of his acquain|tance. first said; Staie, for me thinke I sée one lie here. And so they looking and beholding the bodie, found that it was maister Arden, lieng there throughlie dead, and viewing diligentlie the maner of his bodie & hurts, found the rushes sticking in his slippers, and mar|king further, espied certeine footsteps, by reason of the snow, betwixt the place where he laie, and the garden doore.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then the maior commanded euerie man to staie, and herewith appointed some to go about, & to come in at the inner side of the house through the garden as the waie laie,Footsteps [...] alongst from the dead bodie of Arden to his dwelling house. to the place where maister Ardens dead bodie did lie; who all the waie as they came, perceiued footings still before them in the snow: and so it appeared plainlie that he was brought along that waie from the house through the garden, and so into the field where he laie. Then the maior and his companie that were with him went into the house, and knowing hir euill demeanor in times past, ex|amined hir of the matter: but she defied them and said, I would you should know I am no such wo|man. Then they examined hir seruants, and in the examination, by reason of a péece of his heare any bloud found néere to the house in the waie,A péece of Ar|dens heare and his bloud spil [...] in the house espied, as also a bloudie knife and a clou [...] found. by the which they caried him foorth, and likewise by the knife with which she had thrust him into the brest, and the clout wherewith they wiped the bloud awaie which they found in the tub, into the which the same were throwen; they all confessed the matter, and hir selfe beholding hir husbands bloud, said; Oh the bloud of God helpe, for this bloud haue I shed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then were they all attached, and committed to prison, and the maior with others went presentlie to the flower de lice, where they found Mosbie in bed: and as they came towards him, they espied his hose and pursse stained with some of maister Ardens bloud.Some of Ar|dens bloud vpon Mos|bies pursse. And when he asked what they meant by their comming in such sort, they said; Sée, here ye may vnderstand wherefore, by these tokens, shewing him the bloud on his hose and pursse. Then he confessed the déed, and so he and all the other that had conspi|red the murder, were apprehended and laid in pri|son, except Gréene, blacke Will, and the painter,The princi|pals of this murder fled a|waie. which painter and George Shakebag, that was also fled before, were neuer heard of. Shortlie were the sessions kept at Feuersham, where all the prisoners were arreigned and condemned. And therevpon being examined whither they had anie other compli|ces, mistres Arden accused Bradshaw, vpon occa|sion of the letter sent by Gréene from Graues end,Bradshaw as vniustlie accu|sed, as his simplicitie was shame|fullie abused. (as before ye haue heard) which words had none o|ther meaning, but onelie by Bradshaws describing of blacke Wils qualities; Gréene iudged him a méete instrument for the execution of their preten|ded murder. Whereto notwithstanding (as Gréene confessed at his death certeine yeares after) this Bradshaw was neuer made priuie; howbeit, he was vppon this accusation of mistres Arden, immediat|lie sent for to the sessions, and indicted, and declara|tion made against him, as a procurer of blacke Will to kill maister Arden, which procéeded wholie by mis|vnderstanding of the words conteined in the letter which he brought from Greene.