Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
[800] Thynges after my desyer. 1559, 63.
[801] Th’heape. N.
[802] Vpon the thyrde daye of Julii, he caused syr James Fynes, lorde
Say, and threasorer of England, to be broughte to the Gylde-halle of
London, and there to be arrayned: whiche beyng before the kynge’s
iustices put to answere, desyred to be tryed by his peers, for the
lengar delay of his life. The capytaine perceiuynge hys dilatorie ple,
by force took hym from the officers, and brought him to the standard in
Cheape, and there before his confession ended, caused his head to be
cut of, and pitched it on a hyghe poole, which was openly borne before
him through the stretes. And this cruell tyraunt not content with the
murder of the lorde Say, wente to Myle ende, and there apprehended syr
James Cromer, then shreue of Kent, and sonne in law to the said lorde
Say, and him without confession or excuse hearde, caused there like
wise to be hedded, and his heade to bee fixed on a poole, and with
these two heddes, this bloody butcher entered into the cytie agayn, and
in despite caused them in euery strete kysse together, to the greate
detestacion of all the beholders. _Hall._
[803] And into Sussex rode, all hope was lost. N.
[804] Apprehend. corrected by ed. 1578, all the others read apprend.
[805] Made men. 1559.
[806] But ere I fell I put. N.
[807] For two longe howres, our combat. 1578.
[808] A gentylman of Kent named Alexander Iden, awayted so his tyme,
that he toke hym in a gardyn in Sussex, where in the takynge of hym the
sayd Iak was slayne: and so beyng deed was brought into Southwarke the
---- day of the moneth of September, and there lefte in the Kynge’s
Benche for that nyght. And vpon morowe the deed corps was drawen
through the hyghe stretes of the cytie vnto Newgate, and there hedyd
and quarteryd, whose hede was than sent to London brydge and his iiii
quarters were sent to iiii sondry townes of Kent. _Fabyan._
[809] Debities. 1559, 63, 71.
[810] Still, restored from ed. 1563. It is omitted in all those
subsequent.
[811] As, omitted. 1578.
[812] The lord. 1559, 63.
[813] And therefore. 1559, 63. Wherefore, O Baldwine. N.
[814] Must know his state, and. 1578.
[815]
Who lyst to stand at large,
Must folowe skyll, and flye all worldly charge. 1559, 63.
This legend is subscribed W. Baldwine, by Niccols.
[816] Q. for quoth. 1559, 63.
[817] Howe vpryghtly also and howe lyke. 1559, 63.
[818] Determined the office both of magistrates and subiects. For in
deede magistrates. 1578.
[819] Wycked ende. 1559, 63. Shal neuer see good end of hys attempt.
1578.
[820] Q. 1559, 63.
[821] Nay rather let. 1559, 63.
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