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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Upon his confession he was arreigned at the Kings bench in Westminster hall the eighteenth of Aprill, where he acknowledged himselfe guiltie, and was condemned as principall of the murther, accor|ding to which sentence he was executed in Smith|field, on mondaie the twentith of Aprill: at which time also vntrulie (as she hir selfe confessed after|ward) he laboured by all meanes to cléere mistresse Sanders of committing euill of hir bodie with him,George Browne hanged in Smithfield, and afterward in chains on Shooters hill. and then floong himselfe besides the ladder. He was after hanged vp in chains néere vnto the place where he had doone the fact. In the meane time mistresse Drurie and hir man being examined, as well by their owne confessions, as by falling out of the mat|ter, and also by Brownes appeachment thought cul|pable, were committed to ward. And after mistresse Sanders being deliuered of child, and churched (for at the time of hir husbands death she looked presentlie to lie downe) was vpon mistresse Druries mans confession, and other great likelihoods, likewise com|mitted to the tower, and on wednesdaie the sixt of Maie she was arreigned with mistresse Drurie at the Guildhall.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The effect of their indictment was, that they by a letter written had béene procurers of the said mur|ther: & knowing the murther doone, had by monie & otherwise reléeued the murtherer: wherevnto they pleaded not giltie. Howbeit they were both condem|ned as accessaries to master Sanders death,Anne San|ders, Anne Drurie, and trustie Roger hanged in Smithfield. and ex|ecuted in Smithfield the thirtéenth of Maie, being wednesdaie in Whitsunwéeke, at which time they both confessed themselues guiltie of the fact. Trustie Roger mistresse Druries man was arreigned on fridaie the eight of Maie, & being there condemned as accessarie, was executed with his mistresse at the time and place aforesaid. Not long after, Anthonie Browne brother to the fornamed George Browne,Anthonie Browne han|ged at Yorke. was for notable felonies conueied from Newgate to Yorke, and there hanged.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The tenth of Aprill seauen pirats which among o|thers had béene taken on the north seas,Pirats han|ged at Wap|ping. were lead from Southworke to Wapping, and fiue of them were there hanged: the other two had their pardon at the gallowes.Foure wo|men on the pillorie. The seauentéenth of Aprill a chande|lers wife without Aldersgate of London, who had practised hir husbands death by poisoning and other|wise, was set on the pillorie in Cheape, with thrée o|ther women, who had béene of hir counsell: two of them were with hir there whipped.

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