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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Beside this, at sundrie times the Englishmen in|uading the countrie of Bullognois, wasted the townes and villages, brought awaie great booties of goods and cattell, to the great impouerishing of the countrie. They burnt at one time the towne of Au|dinghen, and tooke the stéeple of the church there, into the which were fled six score pezzants with their wiues and children, whome the Englishmen threw downe headlong out of the steeple, bicause they had most stubbornelie refused to yéeld. In this yeare a great death of the pestilence reigned in London,A great death in London. and therefore Michaelmasse terme was adiourned to S. Albons, and there kept till the end thereof. The eightéenth of December the archbishop of Cantur|buries palace at Canturburie was burnt, I. Stow, pag. 1 [...]27. and ther|in was burnt his brother in law, and other men.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In Christmasse weeke came to the king lieng at Hampton court, Ferdinando Gonzaga viceroie of Sicilie,Ambassadors from the em|perour. prince of Malfeta, duke of Iuano, the em|perours capteine generall. The chiefest cause of his comming was, to appoint what time the emperours armie should be readie to inuade France. He had great chéere, and at his departure was rewarded with a hundred and fiftie thrée ounces of gold in plate, and foure thousand and thrée ounces in guilt plate, all verie curiouslie wrought, and all the time of his being here, his charges were borne by the king. The sundaie before Christmas, the lord Willi|am Par brother to the quéene, who had married the daughter & heire of Henrie Bourchier erle of Essex, at Hampton court was created earle of Essex,The lord Par created earle of Essex. & sir Will. Par knight vncle to them both, was made lord Par of Horton, & chamberleine to the quéene.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On New yeares daie, was sir Thomas Wrio|thesleie the kings secretarie made lord Wriothesleie of Tichfield.

The lord Wriothesleie. Abr. Fl. ex I S. pag. 1027 Foure E| [...]lipses.

Germaine Gardner and other execu|ted.

I Stow 1005. Charitable déeds of sir Iohn Allen.

¶ This yeare chanced foure eclipses, one of the sunne the fourtéenth of Ianuarie, and three of the moone. On the seuenth of March, Germaine Gardner, and Larke person of Chelseie were execu|ted at Tiburne, for denieng the kings supremacie, & with whom was executed for other offenses one Sin|gleton. And shortlie after Ashbeie was likewise exe|cuted for the supremacie. In this yeare sir Iohn Al|len (who had bin twise maior of London, & of coun|cell to the king) departing out of this life, did giue to the citie of London a rich collar of gold, to be worne by the maior: which collar was first worne by sir William Laxton on S. Edwards daie, to the elec|tion of the new maior, who gaue to euerie ward in London twentie pounds to be distributed to the poore housholders, besides to one hundred and twen|tie persons, three score men euerie of them a gowne of brode cloth, and a blacke cap, and thréescore wo|men, to euerie of them a gowne of the like cloth, and a white kerchiefe. Humfreis Monmouth,Shiriffes put awaie their officers. and Iohn Coles which were shiriffes in his maioraltie, in the beginning of their yeare put awaie twelue sarge|ants and twelue yeomen, till they were forced by a court of common councell to take them againe.]

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