Compare 1577 edition: 1 The second of October in the afternoone, and on the morrow in the sorenoone, was a solemne obse|quie at Paules church in London, for Ferdinando late emperor departed. ¶Of this emperor it is said, that lieng sicke, Ex Schardio. and so sicke that Zichard a precher of his court then present could not hold him vp: how|beit comming at last to himselfe and somewhat in recouerie,Ferdinand foretelleth the verie vtter|most daie of his own death. he said to the standers by; You thought that I would neuer come againe, naie mine houre is not so soone: I doo certeinlie know that I shall not die before Whitsuntide. Now when he had liued till that daie, and eight daies after, as hauing the verie time of his departure told him by secret reuelation, (and satisfied at full touching the request that Dauid made to God about the length of his life, saieng:
he said to them that were about him: It is the holie ghosts pleasure that I should not die before saint Iames tide, that as he was a pilgrime among vs, so I with him should passe my pilgrimage out of this my natiue countrie. After which words spoken, his disease grew to greater force and sharpnesse, inso|much that at last, euen at the verie time prefixed, namelie S. Iames daie, he departed this life, after he had liued sixtie yeares, nine moneths, and od daies. He gouerned the empire aboue the space of seauen yeares,The goodlie [...] male and female that God gaue Ferdinand. & had to wife Anne queene of Hun|garie and Boheme, by whom he had fiftéene children, some male; namelie, Maximilian, Ferdinand, Iohn and Charles: also eleuen females; to wit, Elisabeth married to Sigismund king of Poland, Anne, Ma|rie, Mawdline, Catharine, Elenor, Margarite, Bar|bare, Ursule, Helen, and Ione. He is commended for his carefulnesse, his watchfulnesse, his bountiful|nesse, his gentlenesse, his vprightnesse, his discréet|nesse, his peaceablenesse, and other qualities, wherin he had a kind of singularitie. And thus much of him by waie of praise, as I found it readie to my hand.]Lord let me know mine end and the number of daies, that I may be [...]tified how long I haue to liue. Da mihi nosse meae quae sint stata tempora vitae,Et quando vltima sint fata futura mihi)
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The seauenth of October at night, from eight a clocke till after nine of the clocke,Fierrie im|pressions. all the north parts of the element séemed to be couered with flames of fire, procéeding from the northeast and northwest, to|ward the middest of the firmament, where after it had staied nigh one houre, it descended west: and all the same night (being the next after the change of the moone) seemed nigh as light as it had béene faire daie. Anno Reg. 7. Houses shat|tered with gunpowder. The twentith of Nouember in the morning, through negligence of a maiden with a candell, the snuffe falling in an hundred pounds weight of gun|powder, thrée houses in Bucklersburie were sore shaken, and the maid died two daies after. The one and twentith of December began a frost,The Thames frozen ouer. which con|tinued so extremlie, that on Newyeares euen, peo|ple went ouer and alongst the Thames on the ise from London bridge to Westminster. Some plaied at the football as boldlie there, as if it had béene on the drie land: diuerse of the court being then at Westminster, shot dailie at pricks set vpon the Thames: and the people both men and women went on the Thames in greater numbers, than in anie strèet of the citie of London. On the third daie of Ianuarie at night it began to thaw, and on the fift daie was no ise to be seene betwéene London bridge and Lambeth, which sudden thaw caused great floods and high waters, that bare downe bridges and hou|ses, and drowned manie people in England: especi|allie in Yorkshire,Owes bridge borne downe. Owes bridge was borne awaie with others.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The third daie of Februarie,Henrie Stu|art married the quéene of Scots. Henrie Stuart lord Darleie, about the age of ninetéene yeares, eldest sonne to Matthew earle of Lineux (who went into Scotland at Whitsuntide before) hauing obteined licence of the quéenes maiestie, tooke his iourneie to|wards Scotland, accompanied with fiue of his fa|thers men, where when he came, he was honorablie receiued, & lodged in the kings lodgings, and in the summer following, he maried Marie quéen of Scot|land. About this time, for the quéenes maiestie were chosen and sent commissioners to Bruges,Commissio|ners chosen to go to Bruges the lord Montacute knight of the honourable order of the garter, doctor Wotton one of hir maiesties honou|rable councell, doctor Haddon one of the masters of requests to hir highnesse, with others: master doctor Aubreie was for the merchant aduenturers of Eng|land: they came to Bruges in Lent, Anno 1565, and continued there till Michaelmasse following, and then was the diet prolonged till March in the yeare 1566, and the commissioners returned into Eng|land.