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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The two and twentith of Aprill by great misfor|tune of fire in the towne of Ossestrie in Wales,The towne of Ossestrie burnt thrise in thirtie yeares. twelue miles from Shrewsburie, to the number of two hundred houses, to wit, seuen score within the wals, and three score without in the suburbs, besides cloth, corne, cattell, &c: were consumed, which fire be|gan at two of the clocke in the after noone, and ended at foure, to the great maruell of manie, that so great a spoile in so short a time should happen. Two long stréets with great riches in that towne was burnt in the yeare 1542: and likewise or worse in the yeare 1564. The foure and twentith of Aprill the sergeants feast was kept at Greis inne néere vnto Holborne,Sergeants [...]. and there were at that time made se|uen new sergeants of the law. The seuenteenth of Maie in the towne of Milnall in Suffolke eight miles from Newmarket,Milnal in Suffolke burnt. thirtie seuen houses be|sides barnes, stables, and such like were consumed with fire in the space of two houres.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Shane Oneil, who had most traitorouslie rebelled against the quéenes maiestie in Ireland, and had doone manie great outrages in the parts of Ulster, was this yeare with his great losse manfullie repel|led from the siege of Dundalke by the garrison ther|of: and afterward through the great valiancie and foresight of sir Henrie Sidneie knight of the order,Shane Oneil discomfited. S [...]tuta regni H [...]berniae. Edm. C [...]pian. and lord deputie of Ireland, he was so discomfited in sundrie conflicts, with the losse of thrée thousand fiue hundred of his men, that now foreséeing his declina|tion to be imminent, he determined to put a collar a|bout his necke, and disguising himselfe, to repaire to the lord deputie, and penitentlie to require his par|don to haue his life. But Neil Mackeuer his secre|tarie, who had incited him to this rebellion, persua|ded him first to trie & treat the freendship of certeine wild Scots, that then laie incamped in Clan Iboie, vnder the conducting of Alexander Oge, and Mac Gilliam Buske, whose father and vncle Shane O|neil had latelie killed in an ouerthrow giuen to the Scots. Neuerthelesse he well liking this persuasion, went to the said campe the second of Iune, where af|ter a dissembled interteinement, & quaffing of wine, Gilliam Buske burning with desire of reuenge for his fathers and vncles death, and ministring quar|relling talke, issued out of the tent, and made a fraie vpon Oneils men, and then gathering togither his Scots in a throng,Shane Oneil mangled and backt in pée|ces. suddenlie entred the tent againe, who there with their slaughter swords hewed in pée|ces Shane Oneil, his secretarie, and all his compa|nie, except a verie few which escaped by flight.

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Standing watch at mid|summer main|tained in London.

The emperor Ma [...]imilian inuested into the order of the garter.

On saint Iohns euen at night was the like stan|ding watch in London, as had beene on saint Pe|ters euen in the yeare last before mentioned. This yeare the emperour Maximilian the second of that name, being elected into the most honourable order of the garter, the right honourable Thomas earle of Sussex, &c: knight of the same most noble order, was appointed by the quéenes maiestie to go vnto the said emperour, with the said order of the garter, according to his said election. Who being honorablie accompanied with the lord North, sir Thomas Mildmaie knight, Henrie Cobham esquier, one of the pensioners, and others, departed from London the fiue and twentith of Iune 1567, vnto Douer, and there imbarked, landed at Calis, and his traine at Dunkirke, and so passed through the low countries to Antwerpe in Brabant, where he was honoura|blie receiued by the English merchants and others,The earle of Susse [...] visi|teth madame de Parma. and being there went to visit madame de Parma, regent of the said countries, then resident within the same towne.

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