Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now bicause I might rather saie much than suffi|cientlie inough in praise of this noble quéene, as well for hir singular wit and other excellent qualities of mind, as also for hir fauouring of learned men, zeale of religion, and liberalitie in distributing almes in reliefe of the poore, I will refer the reader vnto ma|ster Fox his volume of Acts and Monuments,I. For in mai|tyrologio. where he commendeth hir mild nature in taking admoni|tion, prooueth hir marriage lawfull, defendeth hir suc|cession, ouerthroweth the sinister iudgements, opini|ons and obiections of backebiters against that ver|tuous quéene, sheweth hir faith and trust in Christ at hir death, and finallie how the protestants of Ger|manie forsooke king Henrie for the death of so good a princesse. ¶Anglorum praelia saith, Ang. praelia that this good quéene was forwarned of hir death in a dreame, wherein Morpheus the god of sléepe (in the likenesse of hir grandfather) appéered vnto hir, and after a long narration of the vanities of this world (how enuie reigneth in the courts of princes, maligning the for|tunate estate of the vertuous, how king Henrie the eight and his issue should be the vtter ouerthrow and expulsion of poperie out of England, and that the go|uernment of quéene Elizabeth should be established in tranquillitie & peace) he saith vnto hir in conclu|sion by waie of prophesie, as our poet hath recorded:

Forti sis animo, tristis si nuncius adsum,Ann [...] [...] prae|dicitur. Pla. in Phe. Socratis tale quiddam somnia [...]i [...].

Insperata tuae velox necis aduenit hora,

Intra triginta spacium moriere dierum:

Hoc magnum mortis solamen habeto futurae,

Elizabetha suis praeclarè filia gestis

Nomen ad astraferet patris, matrísque, suúmque.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Immediatlie after hir death, in the wéeke before Whitsuntide, the king married the ladie Iane Sei|mer,The king ma|rieth ladie Iane Seimer daughter to sir Iohn Seimer knight, which at Whitsuntide was openlie shewed as quéene. And on the tuesdaie in Whitsunwéeke, hir brother sir Edw. Seimer was created vicount Beauchampe, and sir Water Hungerford, lord Hungerford. The eight of Iune began the parlement,A parlement during the which the lord Thomas Howard, without the kings assent, affied the ladie Margaret Duglas daughter to the quéene of Scots, and neece to the king,The lord Th. Howard at|teinted of treason. for which act he was atteinted of treason, and an act made for like offen|dors, and so he died in the tower, and she remained long there as prisoner. In the time of this parlement the bishops and all the cleargie of the realme held a solemne conuocation at Paules church in London, where after much disputation and debating of mat|ters, they published a booke of religion,A booke pub|lished concer|ning religio [...] by the king. intituled Ar|ticles deuised by the kings highnesse, &c. In this booke is speciallie mentioned but thrée sacraments. Also beside this booke certeine iniunctions were gi|uen foorth, wherby a number of their holie daies were abrogated, & speciallie those that fell in haruest time. ¶ The nine & twentith of Iune, I. Stow. Triumph at Westminster the king held a great iusting and triumph at Westminster, where were or|deined two lighters made like ships to fight vpon the water, one of the which brake in the midst, wherby one Gates a gentleman, & seruant to M. Kn [...]net was drowned in his harnesse. In the other a gun brake hir chamber, & maimed two of the mariners.] Thomas Cromwell secretarie vnto the king, and EEBO page image 941 maister of the rols, was made lord kéeper of the pri|uie seale, and the ninth of Iulie the lord Fitzwaren was created erle of Bath,Ad [...]unce| [...]t of the [...] Crom|well. and the morrow after the said lord Cromwell was created lord Cromwell. The eightéenth of Iulie he was made knight, and vi|car generall vnder the king ouer the spiritualtie, and sat diuerse times in the conuocation amongst the bi|shops as head ouer them. The two and twentith of Iulie,The death of the kings base sonne. Henrie duke of Richmont and Summerset, earle of Northampton, base sonne to the king, begot of the ladie Tailebois then called Elizabeth Blunt, departed this life at saint Iames, and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke, of whome you shall find more in the treatise of the dukes of this land.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In September, Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale and vicegerent, sent abroad vnder the kings spirituall priuie seale certeine iniunctions, com|manding that the persons and curats should teach their parishioners the Pater noster, the Aue & Creed, with the ten commandements, and articles of the faith in English. These articles and iniunctions be|ing established by authoritie of parlement,The people grudged at the iniuncti|ons establish|ed by act of parlement. and now to the people deliuered, bred a great misliking in the harts of the common people, which had beene euer brought vp and trained in contrarie doctrine. And herewith diuerse of the cleargie as moonks, priests, and others, tooke occasion herby to speake euill of the late procéedings of the king, touching matters of religion, affirming that if spéedie remedie were not in time prouided, the faith would shortlie be vtterlie destroied, and all praier and diuine seruice quite abo|lished and taken awaie.