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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Prouided, that no person seizing vpon the bodie of anie such offendor, should by vertue or colour ther|of spoile anie of their houses, meddle with their goods or mooueables, without order and meane of iu|stice vpon paine of death. On the sundaie yet being the eight and twentith of March,Another pro|clamation in the behalfe of strangers. another proclama|tion was made, to giue respit to the said strangers, forreners, and French souldiers, vntill foure of the clocke in the afternoone of the same daie. And fur|ther there was another proclamation published this sundaie, that none should seize vpon anie of those strangers, forreners, or French souldiers, by colour of the two former proclamations, vntill the lord lieutenants pleasure should more fullie be knowen therein.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The thirtith of March being tuesdaie,Another pro|clamation for the lawfull ap|prehending of prisoners. proclamati|on was eftsoones made, that whereas all forreners, being not anie of the burgesses, or proper inhabi|tants of the said towne of Newhauen, nor of the garrison or armie of the Englishmen in the same towne, had béene warned by seuerall proclamati|ons to depart the towne; and yet the same proclama|tions notwithstanding, a great number made their abode still in the towne, in contempt of those pro|clamations: the lord lieutenant by this proclamati|on gaue full power and authoritie to the said prouost marshall of the garrison of the Englishmen in that towne, to apprehend and take as good and lawfull pri|soners, all such forreners, as well souldiers, and ma|riners, as other without exception, which should be found in the towne at anie time after fiue of the clocke in the afternoone on saturdaie then next com|ming: monsieur Beauuois and his familie,Exceptions against the foresaid pro|clamation. and all ministers then being within the towne, being ne|uerthelesse cléerelie excepted; and diuerse prouisions also included in this selfesame proclamation, for the mitigating of extremities, by wrong interpreting thereof, in behalfe of them that were to depart, as also that the gaine that should come by euerie parti|cular prisoner so arrested by the prouost marshall, should returne to anie of the quéenes maiesties sub|iects, by whose meane and procurement the same pri|soner was detected, and caused to be apprehended.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On mondaie the fift of Aprill, the Reingraue with foure hundred horssemen,The Rein|graue with his horssemen. and about fiue hun|dred footmen, came downe the hill, betwixt saint Ad|dresses & Englefield, where sir Hugh Paulet knight met with him, by appointment of the lord lieutenant accompanied with fortie horssemen, and a thousand English footmen: and after they had talked togither by the space of an houre, they departed the one from the other; maister Paulet returning to Newhauen, and the Reingraue to Mondeuille, the place where EEBO page image 1201 he vsuallie remained. On Easter euen, two souldi|ers that had serued vnder capteine Parkinson were hanged in the market place of Newhauen,Execution on Easter euen. for run|ning awaie to the Reingraue and vnto Diepe. An|other also that serued vnder capteine Turner was condemned for the like offense, but pardoned throgh the great clemencie of the lord lieutenant.

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