Compare 1577 edition: 1 Amongst those that were thus commanded to at|tach him, were two burgesses of the citie, who ha|uing espied a conuenient time for the execution of their purpose, set vpon him to haue taken him, but he getting an ax, defended himselfe manfullie: and in resisting slue one of them, and after that fled into the church of S. Marie Bow,He fléeth in [...]o the church of S. Marie Bow. kéeping the same not as a place of sanctuarie, but as a fortresse: in somuch that by the helpe of such as resorted vnto him, he de|fended it against his aduersaries, till with fire and smoke they constreined him to come foorth and all those that were there with him:His concu|bine. amongst them also was his concubine, who neuer left him for any dan|ger that might be [...]ide him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The people regarding the danger of their pled|ges, came not out to aid him, as it was much doub|ted they would haue doone. Wherefore being thus at|tached, he was brought foorth, and comming out of the church, the sonne of that burgesse whome he had slaine (as you haue heard) strake him verie sore into the bellie with a knife, in reuenge of his fathers EEBO page image 150 death After this, he was had to his arraignment be|fore the archbishop, sitting within the towre, and be|ing condemned, was from thence drawne with hors|ses to the place of execution called the Elmes, and there hanged on a gibet,He is exe|cuted. with nine of his adherents, which had defended the church against the kings power: and yet for all this, the grudge ceassed not, but the common people raised a great slander vpon the archbishop, Wil. Paruus. Matth. Paris. both for causing him to be taken out of the church,The archbish. of Canturbu|rie euill spokẽ of, for y^e death of William Fitz Osbert. where he claimed priuilege of sanctu|arie, and also for putting him to death, who was inno|cent (as they alledged) and not giltie of those crimes that were laid against him: who sought onelie the de|fense of poore people against extortioners, and such as were wrong dooers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This rumor rose so fast, that at length (by bruting abroad, that certeine miracles should be wrought by a chaine,An old whor|monger, and a new saint. wherein he was bound in time of his im|prisonment) he was taken for a saint. The place also where he suffered, was visited by women, and other superstitious folks, as a plot of great holinesse, till at length the archbishop caused it to be watched, to the end that no such foolishnesse should be vsed there. In fine, the opinion which the people had thus fondlie conceiued of his vertue and innocencie, was by lit|tle and little remooued out of their heads, when his acts were more certeinlie published: as the sleaing of a man with his owne hands, and the vsing of his concubine within Bowe church, during the time of his being there. Also the archbishop accursed a préest, which had first brought vp the false report and fained fable of the miracle wrought by the chaine, whereby the occasion of idolatrie was first giuen, and might easilie haue béene continued, if the archbishop had not béene the wiser man, and by such means repressed the rumour. ¶ So that we are to note by this example the force of counterfeit holinesse and feigned harme|lesnesse in hypocrits,

—qui pelle sub agni

Vipereum celant vi [...]us morés, luporum,

Et stol [...]dos ficta virtutis imagine fallunt.