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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The tenth of October manie French, and some Englishmen, but all pirats of the seas, were arreig|ned EEBO page image 1262 at the admeraltie court in Southworke,To the num|ber of two and twentie pi|rats condem|ned and iud|ged to die. No maiors feast at the Guildhall, and [...] where to the number of two and twentie were condemned, and had sentence of death pronounced against them. The maior of London went by water to West|minster, and there tooke his oth as hath beene accus|tomed: he kept no feast at the Guildhall, but dined at his owne house with his brethren the aldermen and others. The companies dined at their seuerall halles, &c. This was doone as in the yéere last before passed, to auoid the infection of the plague, which might haue increased by comming togither of grea|ter numbers of people.The plague [...]aged in London. That wéeke, from the two and twentith vnto the eight and twentith of Octo|ber, deceased in the citie and liberties of all diseases one hundred thirtie and two, of the which number six and thirtie were accounted to die of the plague. The next wéeke following ending the third of Nouem|ber (thanks be giuen to God therefore) there decea|sed of all diseases but one hundred and ten, and of them of the plague but six and twentie.

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