Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At the selfe same time that these northerne men were lodged neere to Doncaster, and the kings pow|er readie to stop them of their passage (as before ye haue heard) there was an other armie readie to haue marched southwards thorough Lancashire: but by the faithfull diligence of the earle of Derbie, who with the forces of Lancashire and Cheshire was ap|pointed to resist them,An other ar|mie of rebels marching southwards through Lan|cashire. they were likewise kept backe and brought to quiet; notwithstanding they were a verie great number assembled togither of the com|mons out of Cumberland, Westmerland, and of the north parts of Lancashire. The earle of Sussex was sent downe by the king, to ioine in assistance with the earle of Derbie; who causing diuerse of the chiefe procurers of that rebellion in those parties to be ap|prehended and arreigned, they being found giltie had iudgement, and were executed, as the abbats of Walleie, Sauleie, and others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 A butcher & a priest hanged and the cause why.In time of this rebellion, a priest that by a but|cher dwelling within fiue miles of Windsor had been procured to preach in fauor of the rebels, and the but|cher (as well for procuring the priest thereto, as for words spoken as he sold his meat in Windsor) were hanged: the priest on a tree at the foot of Windsor bridge, and the butcher on a paire of new gallowes set vp before the castell gate, at the end of the same bridge. The words which the butcher spake were these. When one bad him lesse for the carcase of a sheepe than he thought he could make of it: Naie by Gods soule (said he) I had rather the good fellowes of the north had it, and a score more of the best I haue, than I would so sell it. This priest and butcher being accu|sed on a mondaie in the morning whilest the kings armie was in the field, and the king himselfe lieng at Windsor, they confessed their faults vpon their examinations, and by the law martiall they were adiudged to death, and suffered as before is mentio|ned. This yeare in December,A great frost. the Thames was fro|sen ouer: insomuch that the king and quéene rode thorough London to Gréenewich.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In Christmas the king by his messengers and he|ralds sent downe into the north his generall par|dons to all the offendors;Generall par|dons. and shortlie after Aske that had beene the principall procurer,Aske rewar|ded. & as it were chiefe capteine of the northerne rebels, came to London, and now was both pardoned and receiued into fa|uor, receiuing of the kings bounteous liberalitie, apparell, and diuerse other rewards, whereof he was most vnwoorthie: for there liued not (as Hall saith) a verier wretch, as well in person as conditions and déeds, speciallie towards the kings maiestie, as after appeared. Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 1010. Sir Ra [...]fe E|uers his good seruice in the north. ¶ Sir Rafe Euers kept Scarbrow castell in the north, being six wéeks besieged by the rebels, twentie daies whereof he and all his companie (which were his onelie friends, seruants, and tenants, and serued for good will to him) were forced to susteine themselues with bread and water, and yet he kept the same to the end of that rebellion; and so deliue|red it to king Henrie, who sent him soone after to serue in the borders against Scotland, where in great credit he continued his seruice, kéeping the Scots without dooing hurt to England, and with such obedience of them, as within twentie miles of the borders of Scotland fore against him, there was not a Scot but at his commandement: and so conti|nued, till he was killed in the yeare 1545.]