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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then he desired to talke with the persons con|demned, and his request was granted. He therefore demanded of them if they knew him, or euer had a|nie conuersation with him, & they all said no. Then the letter being shewed and read, he declared the ve|rie EEBO page image 1066 truth of the matter,Innocencie no barre a|gainst execu|tion. and vpon what occasion he told Gréene of blacke Will: neuerthelesse, he was condemned, and suffered. These condemned per|sons were diuerslie executed in sundrie places, for Michaell maister Ardens man was hanged in chaines at Feuersham,Note how these malefac|tors suffered punishment. and one of the maids was burnt there, pitifullie bewailing hir case, and cried out on hir mistres that had brought hir to this end, for the which she would neuer forgiue hir. Mosbie & his sister were hanged in Smithfield at London; mistres Arden was burned at Canturburie the foure and twentith of March. Gréene came againe certeine yeares after, was apprehended, condem|ned,Blacke Will burnt a [...] Flishing. & hanged in chaines in the high waie betwixt Ospring & Boughton against Feuersham; blacke Will was burnt on a scaffold at Flishing in Ze|land. Adam Foule that dwelt at the floure de lice in Feuersham was brought into trouble about this matter, and caried vp to London, with his legs bound vnder the horsse bellie, and committed to pri|son in the Marshalseie: for that Mosbie was heard to saie; Had it not béene for Adam Foule, I had not come to this trouble: meaning that the bringing of the siluer dice for a token to him from mistresse Ar|den, as ye haue heard, occasioned him to renew fa|miliaritie with hir againe. But when the matter was throughlie ripped vp, & that Mosbie had cléered him, protesting that he was neuer of knowledge in anie behalfe to the murder, the mans innocencie preserued him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 A wonder tou|ching the print of Ar|dens dead bo|die two yeares after he was slaine.This one thing séemeth verie strange and nota|ble, touching maister Arden, that in the place where he was laid, being dead, all the proportion of his bo|die might be séene two yeares after and more, so plaine as could be, for the grasse did not grow where his bodie had touched: but betwéene his legs, be|tweene his armes, and about the hollownesse of his necke, and round about his bodie, and where his legs, armes, head, or anie other part of his bodie had touched, no grasse growed at all of all that time. So that manie strangers came in that meane time, be|side the townesmen, to see the print of his bodie there on the ground in that field. Which field he had (as some haue reported) most cruellie taken from a woman, that had beene a widow to one Cooke, and after maried to one Richard Read a mariner, to the great hinderance of hir and hir husband the said Read: for they had long inioied it by a lease, which they had of it for manie yeares, not then expired: neuerthelesse, he got it from them. For the which, the said Reads wife not onelie exclaimed against him,God heareth the teares of the oppressed and taketh vengeance: note an exam|ple in Arden. in sheading manie a salt téere, but also curssed him most bitterlie euen to his face, wishing manie a vengeance to light vpon him, and that all the world might woonder on him. Which was thought then to come to passe, when he was thus murdered, and laie in that field from midnight till the morning: and so all that daie, being the faire daie till night, all the which daie there were manie hundreds of people came woondering about him. And thus far touching this horrible and heinous murder of maister Arden. To returne then where we left.