Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The seauenth of Iune,Haile in Nor|thamptõshire. betwéene the houres of one and two of the clocke in the after noone, a great tempest of haile and raine happened at Tocester in Northamptonshire, wherethrough six houses in that towne were borne downe, and foureteene more sore perished with the waters which rose of that tempest. The hailstones were square, & six inches about. One child was there drowned, and manie shéepe with o|ther cattell, which when the water was fallen, manie of them were lieng on the high hedges, where the wa|ters had left them. The sixteenth of Iune, Thomas Woodhouse, a priest of Lincolnshire,Thomas Woodhouse. who had laine long prisoner in the Fleet, was arreigned in the Guildhall of London, and there condemned of high treason, who had iudgement to be hanged and quar|tered, and was executed at Tiburne the ninetéenth of Iune.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The sixtéenth of August, Walter earle of Essex, accompanied with the lord Rich,Erle of Essex and the lord Rich with o|ther sailed in|to Ireland. and diuerse other gentlemen, imbarked themselues in seuerall ships at Leirpoole, and the wind sitting verie well, tooke their voiage towards Ireland. The earle after manie and great dangers on the sea, at length woone Cope|mans Iland, from whence in a pinnesse of capteine Perses he was brought safe to Knockfergus. The lord Rich with the like danger landed at castell Kil|life, EEBO page image 1259 where being met by capteine Malbie, maister Smith, & master Moore pensioners, he was conduc|ted to Inch abbaie maister Malbies house, where he had in a readinesse on the morrow morning a hun|dred and fiftie horssemen for their safegard to Knock|fergus, beside fiftie Kerns which went a foot through the woods: there was among these a thirtie bowes with a bagpipe,Bowes, bag|pipes & darts among the Irish. the rest had darts. Sir Brian Make|phelin had preied the countrie, and taken awaie what was to be carried or driuen, but on the sixt of Sep|tember he came to Knockfergus, to the earle of Es|sex, and there made his submission: the number of kine were estéemed thirtie thousand, besides shéepe and swine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After him Ferdorough Macgillasticke the blind Scots sonne, Roze, Oge, Macwilline did the like: and diuerse other sent their messengers to the earle, to signifie that they were at his lordships disposition as the baron of Dongarrow, Condenell, Odonell, and the capteine of Kilulto. The earle of Essex ha|uing the countrie of Claniboie and other, the quéens maiestie of England directed hir letters to the lord deputie of Ireland,Erle of Essex capteine gene|rall of Ulster in Ireland. willing him to make by commis|sion the earle of Essex capteine generall of the Irish nation in the prouince of Ulster, and to diuide the countrie woone, Claniboie, and else where, &c. The eleuenth of October, Peter Burchet gentleman of the middle temple, with his dagger suddenlie assai|led,Peter Bur|chet wounded maister Haw|kins. cruellie wounded, and meant to haue murthered a seruiceable gentleman named Iohn Hawkins esquier, as he with sir William Winter, and an o|ther gentleman rode towards Westminster, in the high stréet neare to the Strand, beyond the Temple|barre of London: for which fact the said Burchet be|ing apprehended and commited to the tower, was afterward examined concerning the fact. Who an|swered that he tooke the said maister Hawkins for an other gentleman: and being further examined, he was found to hold certeine erronious opinions,Peter Bur|chet found to be an heretike. for the which he was sent to the Lollards tower. From thence being called into the consistorie of Paules church,Peter Bur|chet abiured his heresie, & submitted himselfe to doo penance. before the right reuerend father Ed|wine bishop of London, and others, & by them exa|mined, he stood in his opinions, till the sentence of death as an heretike was readie to haue béene pro|nounced against him on the fourth of Nouember: but through the earnest persuasions of diuerse lear|ned men, who tooke great paines in that matter, he renounced, forswore, and abiured his opinions for erronious & damnable, promising neuer to returne to them, and also willinglie to doo and performe all such penance as the bishop his ordinarie should in|ioine him.