Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then maister Weston declared with a lowd voice that the quéenes maiestie had forgiue [...] him. Then di|uers of the standers by said with audible voice Such forgiuenes God send thee, meaning doctor Weston. Then the duke kneeled vpon his knees, and said the psalme Misereremei Deus, vnto the end, holding vp his hands, and looking vp to heauen. And when he had ended the psalme, he said; In manus [...] Domine com|me [...]do spiritum m [...]um. Then he arose and stood vp, and deliuered his cap and so [...]rffe to the executioner, and therewith the executioner kneeled downe: and asked the duke forgiuenesse, and the duke said, God forgiue thee, and I doo and when thou doost thine office, I praie thee doo if quicklie, and God haue mercie to thee. Then s [...]od there a man and said, My lord, how shall I doo for the monie that you doo owe me? And the duke said, Alas good fellow, I praie thée trouble me not now, but go thy waie to my officers. Then he knit a kercher about his face, and knéeled downe and said, Our father which art in heauen, &c vnto the end: and then he said, Christ haue mercie vpon me, and laid downe his head on the blocke: and the executioner toke the axe, and at the first chop stroke off his head, and held it vp to the people, according to the common custome of execution.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Such was the end of this duke of Suffolke, a man of high nobilitie by birth,The duke of Suffolke described. and of nature to his friend gentle and courteous, more easie in déed to be led than was thought expedient, of stomach neuer|thelesse stout and hardie, hastie and soone kindled, but pacified streight againe, and sorie if in his heat ought had passed him otherwise than reason might séeme to beare, vpright and plaine in his priuat dealings, no dissembler, nor well able to beare iniuries, but yet forgiuing & forgetting the same, if the partie would séeme but to acknowlege his fault, and seeke recon|cilement. Bountifull he was and verie liberall, som|what learned himselfe,Great pitie that so manie good gifts con|curring should suffer disgrace. and a great sauourer of those that were learned, so that to manie he shewed him|selfe a verie Mecoenas: as frée from couetousnesse, as void of pride and disdainefull hautinesse of mind, more regarding plaine meaning men, than claw|backe flatterers. And this vertue he had, he could patientlie heare his faults told him, by those whome he had in credit for their wisdome and faithfull mea|ning toward him, although sometime he had the hap to reforme himselfe thereafter. Concerning his last offense for the which he died, it is to be supposed, he ra|ther tooke in hand that vnlawfull enterprise through others persuasions, than of his owne motion for any malicious ambition in himselfe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 But now to let this duke rest with God, we will procéed with the storie. The same daie (or as some haue noted the day before) a number of prisoners had their pardon, and came through the citie with their halters about their necks. They were in The number of them that thus had their pardon were 240. number a|boue two hundred. Upon the saturdaie, the eight and twentith of Februarie, sir William Sentlow was committed as prisoner to the maister of the horsse to be kept. This sir William was at this time one of the ladie Elizabeths gentlemen. Upon the sundaie being the fiue and twentith of Februarie, sir Iohn Rogers was committed to the tower. Upon the tuesdaie in the same weeke being the seuen & twen|tith of Februarie,Gentlemen sent into Kent to be executed. certeine gentlemen of Kent were sent into Kent to be executed there. Their [...] were the [...] the two Mantels, two Kneuets, and Bret: with these maister Rudston also, and certeine other were condemned, and should haue beene execu|ted, but they had their pardon.