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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king therefore causing such good statutes as had beene deuised and established for reformation in this behalfe, to be reuiued and called vpon, tooke or|der by directing foorth his commissions vnto the iusti|ces of peace,Commissions granted for the mainte|nance of [...]l|lage and lai|eng open of inclosures and other such magistrats, that present|ment should be had and made of all such inclosures, and decaie of husbandrie, as had chanced within the space of fiftie yeares before that present time. The iustices and other magistrates, according to their commission executed the same. And so commande|ment was giuen, that the decaied houses should bée built vp againe, that the husbandmen should be pla|ced eftsoones in the same, and that inclosed grounds should be laid open, and sore punishment appointed a|gainst them that disobeied.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 These so good and wholesome ordinances shortlie after were defeated by meanes of bribes giuen vnto the cardinall: for when the nobles and gentlemen,Bribes. which had for their pleasures imparked the common fields, were loth to haue the same againe disparked, they redéemed their vexation with good sommes of monie; and so had licence to keepe their parks and grounds inclosed as before. Thus the great expecta|tion which men had conceiued of a generall redresse, prooued void: howbeit, some profit the husbandmen in some parts of the realme got by the moouing of this matter, where inclosures were alreadie laid o|pen, yer mistresse monie could preuent them; and so they inioied their commons, which before had beene taken from them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After that this matter for inclosures was thus dispatched,The cardina [...] deuiseth the destruction of the duke of Bucking|ham. the cardinall boiling in hatred against the duke of Buckingham, & thirsting for his bloud, deuised to make Charles Kneuet, that had beene the dukes surueior, and put from him (as ye haue heard) an instrument to bring the duke to destruction. This Kneuet being had in examination before the cardi|nall, disclosed all the dukes life. And first he vttered, that the duke was accustomed by waie of talke, to saie, how he meant so to vse the matter, that he would atteine to the crowne, if king Henrie chan|ced to die without issue: & that he had talke and con|ference of that matter on a time with George Ne|uill, lord of Aburgauennie, vnto whome he had giuen his daughter in marriage; and also that he threatned to punish the cardinall for his manifold misdooings, being without cause his mortall enimie.

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