Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lord Leonard Greie being indicted of cer|teine points of treason by him committed, as was alledged against him, during the season that he was the kings lieutenant in Ireland, to wit, for deliue|ring his nephew Girald Fitzgerard brother vnto Thomas Fitzgerard before executed, and also for that he caused certeine Irishmen to inuade the lands of the kings friends, whome he fauoured not: on the fiue and twentith of Iune he was arreigned at Westminster in the kings bench, and appointed to be tried by knights, because he was a lord by name, and no lord of the parlement; but he discharged the iurie, and confessed the indictement, wherevpon he had iudgement, and on the eight and twentith of Iune being saint Peters euen, he was beheaded at tower hill,The lord Le|onard Greie beheaded. where he ended his life verie quietlie and godlie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This noble man as he was come of high linage, so was he a right valiant and hardie personage, ha|uing in his time doone his prince and countrie good seruice, both in Ireland, France, and other pla|ces, EEBO page image 954 greatlie to his commendation, although now his hap was thus to loose his head, as conuicted by law, and his renowme (ouercast with a cloud of dis|grace) vanished, as future chances befell, to the abo|lishing of the present honor which sometime he in|ioied. Howbeit, his estimation he might haue pre|serued vnblemished, had prouident circumspecti|on vndertaken the direction of his dooings, and that he had borne his eies in his forehead, to foresee all af|terclaps, which a wise man will in no case neglect:

Nam sapiens in fronte oculos habet, omnia spectans,

Omnia prudenti cum ratione videns.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The same daie that he suffered, there was execu|ted at saint Thomas Waterings thrée gentlemen, Iohn Mantell, Iohn Frowds, and george Roidon: they died for a murther committed in Sussex (as their indictement imported) in companie of Thomas Fines lord Dacres of the south.The true re|port of the cause where|vpon the mur|ther of Iohn Busbrig in|sued. The truth whereof was thus. The said lord Dacres, through the lewd persuasion of some of them, as hath béene reported, meaning to hunt in the parke of Nicholas Pelham esquire at Laughton, in the same countie of Sussex, being accompanied with the said Mantell, Frowds, and Roidon, Iohn Cheinie and Thomas Isleie gen|tlemen, Richard Middleton and Iohn Goldwell yeo|men, passed from his house of Hurstmonseux, the last of Aprill in the night season, toward the same parke, where they intended so to hunt; and comming vnto a place called Pikehaie in the parish of Hil|lingleie, they found one Iohn Busbrig, Iames Bus|brig, and Richard Sumner standing togither; and as it fell out through quarelling, there insued a fraie betwixt the said lord Dacres and his companie on the one partie, and the said Iohn and Iames Bus|brig and Richard Sumner on the other: insomuch that the said Iohn Busbrig receiued such hurt, that he died thereof the second of Maie next insuing.