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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The 21 of Maie being Whitsun éeuen,Anabaptists banished. one man and ten women anabaptists Dutch, were in the consistorie of Paules condemned to be burned in Smithfield: but after great pains taken with them, onlie one woman was conuerted, the other were banished the land. On the first of Iune the nine women being led by the shiriffs officers, and the man also tied to a cart & whipped, were all conueied from Newgate to the waters side, where they were shipped awaie neuer to returne againe.Fiue person [...] of the familie of loue stood at Paules crosse. The twelfe of Iune stood at Paules crosse fiue persons English|men of the sect termed the familie of loue, who there confessed themselues vtterlie to detest as well the author of that sect H. N. as all his damnable errors and heresies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The two and twentith of Iulie two Dutchmen anabaptists were burned in Smithfield,Anabaptists burned in Smithfield. who died in great horror with roring and crieng. The thirtith of Iulie in the afternoone was a great tempest of ligh|tening and thunder,Thunder and haile, where [...] insued great hurt. wherethrough both men and beasts in diuerse places were striken dead. Also at that time fell great abundance of haile, whereof the stones in manie places were found to be six or seuen inches about. The fourth of September being sun|daie about seuen of the clocke in the morning,The gla [...] hou [...]e burn [...] a cer|teine glasse house, which sometime had béene the cros|sed friers hall neere to the tower of London burst out on a terrible fire: wherevnto the lord maior, al|dermen and shiriffes with all expedition repaired, and practised there all means possible, by water buc|kets, hookes, and otherwise to haue quenched it. All which notwithst [...]nding, whereas the same house in a small time before had consumed great quantitie of wood by making of fine drinking glasses; now it selfe hauing within it neere fortie thousand billets of wood was all consumed to the stone walles, which walles greatlie defended the fire from spreading further, and dooing anie more harme.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The six and twentith of September,A woman brought a be [...] of foure chil|dren at one burthen. a pulters wife in the parish of Christs church within Newgate of London was deliuered & brought to bed of foure children at one burthen, all females or maiden chil|dren, which were christened by the names of Elisa|beth, Marie, Margaret, and Dorothie: and the same daie moneth the mother was buried, but all the foure children liuing, and in good liking, were borne to church after hir. ¶On Michaelmas éeuen at night the like impressions of fire and smoke were séene in the aire to flash out of the northeast, north and north|west, as had béene on the fiue and twentith of No|uember last before passed.

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