¶ The queenes maiestie hearing crediblie by re|port, I.S. pag. 1 [...]55. that certeine lewd persons, vnder pretense of EEBO page image 1228 executing commissions for inquiries to be made for lands concealed,Conueiers of bels, lead, and other church goods, are to b [...] punished to the example of their too manie followers. contrarie to hir maiesties mea|ning, chalenging lands, stocks of monie, plate, &c: let|ting not also to make pretense to the bels, led, and o|ther such things belonging vnto parish churches or chappels. Hir maiestie meaning spéedilie to with|stand such manner of vnlawfull practises, comman|ded, that all commissions then extant and not deter|mined, for inquisition of anie manner of conceale|ments, should be by Supersedias, out of hir excheker re|uoked.

And also appointed speedie remedie to be had against such extorcioners, as more at large appeareth by proclamation, concluding thus. Finallie, hir ma|iestie would hir iustices of assise to haue some speci|all care, not onelie to the premisses, but also to the re|forming of certeine couetous & iniurious attempts, of diuerse that of late time by other colour than for hir maiesties vse, had taken awaie the led of chur|ches and chappels; yea and bels also out of steeples, and other common goods belonging to parishes: an example not to be suffered vnpunished, nor vnrefor|med. And so hir maiestie eftsoones chargeth hir iu|stices of hir assise to prouide seuere remedie, both for punishment and reformation thereof. Dated at Westminster the thirtéenth daie of Februarie, the fourtéenth yeare of hir reigne.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Sir William Paulet lord treasuror deceassed.The tenth of March deceased sir William Pau|let knight, lord saint Iohn, earle of Wilshire, mar|quesse of Winchester, knight of the honorable order of the garter, one of the quéenes maiesties priuie councell, and lord high treasuror of England, at his manor of Basing. This worthie man was borne in the yeare of our Lord 1483, the first yeare of king Richard the third, and liued about the age of foure score and seauen yeares, in six kings and quéenes daies.His ancient and honorable seruice. He serued fiue kings and quéenes, Henrie the seauenth, Henrie the eight, Edward the sixt, queene Marie, and quéene Elisabeth. All these he serued faithfullie, and of them was greatlie fauou|red. Himselfe did sée the children of his childrens children, growing to the number of one hundred and thrée. A rare blessing giuen by God to men of his calling.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the fiue and twentith and six and twentith of March, by the commandement of the quéenes ma|iestie hir councell, the citizens of London assem|bling at their seuerall halles; the maisters collected and chose out the most likelie and actiue persons of e|uerie their companies,Thrée thou|sand chosen persons for pikemen and gunners out of halles. to the number of thrée thou|sand, whome they appointed to be pikemen and shot. The pikemen were foorthwith armed in faire corslets and other furniture according thervnto; the gunners had euerie of them his caliuer with the furniture, and murrians on their heads. To these were appoin|ted diuerse valiant capteins, who to traine them vp in warlike feats,Training vp of yoong sol| [...]s in the f [...]ld. mustered them thrise euerie wéeke, sometimes in the artillerie yard, teaching the gun|ners to handle their peeces, sometimes at the Miles end, & in saint Georges field, teaching them to skir|mish. In the which skirmish on the Miles end the tenth of Aprill, one of the gunners of the goldsmiths companie was shot in the side with a peece of a scou|ring sticke left in one of the caliuers, wherof he died, and was buried the twelfe of Aprill in Pauls church|yard; all the gunners marching from the Miles end in battell raie, shot off their caliuers at his graue.