Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the fiftéenth daie of August being sundaie, Agnes Bridges,Agnes Brid|ges & Rachell Pinder at Pauls crosse for counter|fetting to be possessed. a maiden about the age of twen|tie yeares, and Rachell Pinder, a wench about ele|uen or twelue yeares old who both of them had coun|terfetted to be possessed by the diuell (wherby they had not onelie maruellouslie deluded manie people, both men and women, but also diuerse such persons as o|therwise séemed to be of good wit and vnderstanding) stood before the preacher at Paules crosse, where they acknowledged their hypocriticall counterfetting, with penitent behauiours, requiring forgiuenesse of God and the world, and the people to praie for them. Also their seuerall examinations and confessions were there openlie read by the preacher, and after|wards published in print for the further posteritie hereafter to beware of the like deceiuers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The fourth of September in the after noone, such a storme of raine happened at London,A lad of eigh|teéne yeares [...] drowned [...] chanell in London. as the like of EEBO page image 1260 long time could not be remembred, wherethrough the chanels of the citie suddenlie rising, ran with such a forceable course towards the common sewes, that a lad about the age of eightéene yeares, minding to haue lept ouer the chanell neere vnto Dowgate, was borne ouer with the streame, and by the same caried from the conduit there towards the Thames, with such a swiftnesse, that no man with staues or other|wise could stay him, till he came against a cart wheele that stood in the watergate, afore which he was drow|ned and starke dead.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 This yeare the maior of London went by wa|ter to Westminster, [...] ma [...]ors [...]ast at the Guildhall. and there tooke his oth; as hath béene accustomed: he kept no feast at the Guildhall, although great prouision had béene made for that purpose, but dined at his owne house with his bre|thren the aldermen: the companies dined at their seuerall halles. This was doone by the speciall ap|pointment of the quéenes maiesties councell, to a|uoid infection of the plague, like to haue increased by comming togither of such a multitude. This wéeke from the two and twentith, vnto the eight and twen|tith of October, deceased in the citie and liberties, conteining an hundred and eight parishes, of all dis|eases, one hundred thréescore & six, of the which num|ber thréescore and fiue were accounted to die of the plague.T [...]a [...]me ad| [...]rned. Michaelmas tearme, which had beene adiour|ned by proclamation, began at Westminster on the sixt of Nouember. The same sixt day in the morning, there happened two great tides at London, in the riuer of Thames,Two tides in one houre. the first by course, the other within one houre following, which ouerflowed the marshes, with manie vaults and cellars neare adioining.