Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also they caused them to sweare that they should be readie to come to them whensoeuer they sent for them, and induce all their neighbours to take part with them. And further, that they should neuer yéeld to anie tax to be leuied in the realme, except a fif|téenth onelie. Thus it came to passe, that after it was spred abroad what stur these Essex and Kentishmen kept;The commõs of other shires hearing of the stur in Kent & Essex, rise in like maner. the commons also in the counties of Sussex, Hertford, Cambridge, Suffolke, and Norffolke, and other shires about, bustled vp and ran togither on heapes, so that the number of those vnrulie people maruellouslie increased, in such wise as now they fea|red no resistance, and therefore began to shew proofe of those things which they had before conceiued in their minds,Lawiers, iu|stices & iurors brought to blockam feast by the rebels. beheading all such men of law, iustices, and iurors as they might catch, and laie hands vpon, without respect of pitie, or remorse of conscience, al|ledging that the land could neuer enioy hir natiue and true libertie, till all those sorts of people were dispatched out of the waie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The next way to extinguish right.This talke liked well the eares of the common vplandish people, and by the lesse conueieng the more, they purposed to burne and destroie all records, eui|dences, court-rolles, and other minuments, that the remembrance of ancient matters being remooued out of mind, their landlords might not haue whereby to chalenge anie right at their hands. Their number still increased: for all such as were in debt or danger of law for their misdemeanors and offenses, came out of all coasts vnto them, so that when the Essex|men, and other of the hither side the Thames,An huge [...] of y^e [...]. were passed ouer and ioined with the Kentishmen, & those that were assembled on that side the riuer vpon Blackheath; Fabian. Capteins at the Esse [...] in Kentish [...] they were esteemed to be an hundred thousand, hauing diuerse capteins besides the said Iacke Straw, as William Wraw, Wat Tiler, Iacke Sheepheard, Tom Milner, and Hob Carter. Whilest they were lodged on Blackheath, the king sent to them certeine knights, to vnderstand of them the cause of their gathering thus togither, to whome answer was made, that they were come togither to speake with the king, about certeine causes and bu|sinesse, & therefore they bad the messengers returne,The reb [...]s send to the [...] to come [...] with them. and declare to the king that there was no remedie but he must needs come and speake with them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When this tale was told to the king,Ill counsell. there were some that thought it best that he should go to them, and know what their meaning was: but Simon de Sudburie the archbishop of Canturburie, that was lord chancellor, and also sir Robert Hales lord of S. Iohns, and as then lord treasuror, spake earnestlie a|gainst that aduise, and would not by anie meanes that the king should go to such a sort of barelegged ribalds; but rather they wished that he should take some order to abate the pride of such vile rascals. Af|ter the commons vnderstood that the king would not come to them, by reason of the contrarie aduise giuen to him by those two persons, the lord chancel|lor and the lord treasuror, they were maruellouslie mooued against them, and sware that they would not rest till they had got them, & chopped off their heads, calling them traitors to the king and realme.