[1] This she did is colour hir wickednesse which by no meanes was [...]seable.They being returned thus backe againe into the house, the doores were opened, and the seruants re|turned home that had béene sent abroad: and being now verie late, she sent foorth hir folks againe to make inquirie for him in diuerse places; namelie, among the best in the towne where he was woont to be, who made answer, that they could tell nothing of him. Then she began to make an outcrie, and said; Neuer woman had such neighbors as I haue, and herewith wept: in somuch that hir neighbors came in, and found hir making great lamentation, pretending to maruell what was become of hir hus|band. Wherevpon, the maior and others came to make search for him.Arden a coue| [...] man and [...]errer of his priuat [...] b [...]fore common [...]. The faire was woont to be kept partlie in the towne, and partlie in the abbeie; but Arden for his owne priuat lucre & couetous gaine had this present yeare procured it to be wholie kept within the abbeie ground which he had purchased; & so reaping all the gaines to himselfe, and bereauing the towne of that portion which was woont to come to the inhabitants, got manie a bitter cursse. The maior going about the faire in this search, at length came to the ground where Arden laie: and as it hap|pened, Prune the groser getting sight of him,Ardens dead bodie is descri|ed by one of his acquain|tance. first said; Staie, for me thinke I sée one lie here. And so they looking and beholding the bodie, found that it was maister Arden, lieng there throughlie dead, and viewing diligentlie the maner of his bodie & hurts, found the rushes sticking in his slippers, and mar|king further, espied certeine footsteps, by reason of the snow, betwixt the place where he laie, and the garden doore.