[1] [2] On the eleuenth daie of October, there was a great creation of dukes and earles,Creation of honorable estates, as the lord mar|quesse Dorset was created duke of Suffolke, the earle of Warwike made duke of Northumberland, and the earle of Wilshire made marquesse of Win|chester, & sir William Herbert maister of the horsse; he also made William Cicill his secretarie knight, I.S. pag. 1050. maister Iohn Chéeke one of his schoolemaisters knight, maister Henrie Dudlie knight,The duked Summer [...]et againe appre|hended, and committed [...] the to [...]. & maister Henrie Neuill knight. The sixtéenth daie of the said moneth being fridaie, the duke of Summerset was againe apprehended, & his wife also, & committed to the tower; with him also were cõmitted sir Michaell [page 1067] Stanhope, sir Thomas Arundell, sir Rafe Uane, sir Miles Partrige & other for suspicion of treason and felonie, whereof they were all shortlie after indicted. And so standing indicted, the second daie of Decem|ber next following, the said duke was brought out of the tower of London with the ax of the tower borne before him, with a great number of billes, gleaues, halberds & pollaxes attending vpon him, & so came into Westminster hall, where was made in the middle of the hall a new scaffold, where all the lords of the kings councell sate as his iudges:The duke ar|reigned both of treason and [...]lonie. and there was he arreigned and charged with manie ar|ticles both of felonie and treason. And when after much mild speech he had answered not guiltie, he in all humble manner put himselfe to be tried by his péeres: who after long consultation among them|selues, gaue their verdict that he was not guiltie of the treason, but of the felonie. The people there pre|sent (which was a great number) hearing the lords saie not guiltie, which was to the treason, thinking most certeinlie that he was cléerelie acquited; and chieflie for that immediatlie vpon the pronouncing of those words, he that caried the ax of the tower departed with the ax,The people [...]pposing the duke to be [...]re gaue a great showt [...] ioie. they made such an outcrie and [...]o [...]e, as the like hath not béene heard. Which was an euident declaration of their good willes and hartie fa|uors vnto him, whose life they greatlie desired to haue saued, for that he had deserued right well of most (though the good gentleman had some priuat e|nimies) and had béene as a man maie iustlie saie:

Solamen magnum patriae, solamen amicis.