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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.

[...] pag. 1185. God punish|ed periurie.¶ The eleuenth of Februarie Anne Aueries, wi|dow, forswearing hir selfe for a little monie that she should haue paid for six pounds of tow at a shop in Woodstréet of London, fell immediatlie downe spéechlesse, casting vp at hir mouth in great aboun|dance, & with horrible stinke, the same matter which by natures course should haue béene voided downe|wards, till she died. A terrible example of Gods iust iudgement vpon such as make no conscience of swearing against their brother.Archbishop [...]. The fiftéenth of Fe|bruarie, Edmund Grindale somtime bishop of Lon|don, late archbishop of Yorke, was in the chapter-house of S. Paules church at London elected archbi|shop of Canturburie. The fift of March in the night through a great flaw of wind then in the northeast,The bote [...]wned. a tilt bote with about the number of one and thirtie persons, men and women, comming from Graues|end toward London, were all drowned; one boie ex|cepted. The thirtith of Maie Thomas Gréene gold|smith was drawen from Newgate of London to Tiburne,Gréene han|ged. and there hanged, headed, and quartered, for clipping of coine both gold and siluer.

Frobishers first voiage for the disco|uerie of Ca|taia.The fiftéenth of Iune Martine Frobisher being furnished of aduenturors, with two small barkes & one pinnesse departed from Blackewall, vpon his voiage for the discouerie of a passage to Cataia by the northwest seas. Upon the first of Iulie he had sight (as he iudged) of Fréesland, but durst not ap|proch the same, by reason of the great yee that laie a|longst the coast. Not far from thense he lost his pin|nesse and one of his barkes, who mistrusting the dan|ger of tempests returned home, with report that their generall Martine Frobisher was cast awaie: which worthie capteine notwithstanding continued his course northwest,A rumor that capteine Fro|bisher was cast awaie. Queene Eli|sabeths fore|land. beyond anie man that hath heretofore discouered, and the twentith of Iulie had sight of a high land, which he named Quéene Elisa|beths foreland; and after that another foreland with a great passage, diuiding (as it were) the two maine lands asunder: this place he named Frobishers streits. After he had passed sixtie leagues further, he went ashoare, found the same to be inhabited with sauage people, caught one of them into his barke, and returning, arriued in England in the moneth of August following. One of his companie brought from thense a péece of a blacke stone, much like to a seacole in colour, which being brought to certeine goldfiners in London, to make a saie thereof, found it to hold gold, and that verie richlie for the quantitie.

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