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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 A parlement.About this time the kings maiestie calling his high court of parlement, held the same at West|minster the three and twentith daie of Ianuarie, in this fift yéere of his reigne, and there continued it, vntill the fiftéenth daie of Aprill in the sixt yeare of his said reigne. In this parlement the booke of com|mon praier,Fooke of common prai|er confirmed. which in some part had béene corrected and amended, was newlie confirmed & established. ¶ In the end of this parlement, namelie the fifteenth of Aprill the infectious sweating sicknesse began at Shrewesburie, Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1049. Sweating sickenesse. which ended not in the north part of England vntill the end of September. In this space what number died, it cannot be well accounted: but certeine it is, that in London in few daies nine hundred and sixtie gaue vp the ghost. It began in London the ninth of Iulie, and the twelfth of Iulie it was most vehement: which was so terrible, Iohn [...]. that people being in best helth, were suddenlie taken, and dead in foure and twentie houres, and twelue, or lesse, for lacke of skill in guiding them in their sweat. And it is to be noted,Of this [...] died Henrie [...] Charles [...] of Charles Brandon, the elder first, [...] the yoong [...] after: so th [...] they both [...] dukes of Suffolke. that this mortalitie fell chéeflie or rather vpon men, and those also of the best age, as betwéen thirtie & fortie yeers. The spéedie riddance of life procured by this sicknes, did so terrifie people of all sorts, that such as could make shift, either with monie or freendship, changed their soile, and leauing places of concourse, betooke them (for the time) to a|bodes, though not altogither solitarie, yet lesse frequented: to conclude, manifold meanes were made for safetie of life. The first wéeke died in Lon|don eight hundred persons.