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keeper to have escaped, and thereupon was beheaded. 

 But Sir Simon Mountfort, Robert Ratcliffe, and 

 William D Aubigny, were beheaded immediately 

 after their condemnation. The rest were pardoned, 

 together with many others, clerks and laics, amongst 

 which were two Dominican friars, and William 

 Worseley, Dean of Paul s, which latter sort passed 

 examination, but came not to public trial. 



The Lord Chamberlain at that time was not 

 touched ; whether it were that the king would not 

 stir too many humours at once, but, after the man 

 ner of good physicians, purge the head last ; or that 

 Clifford, from whom most of these discoveries came, 

 reserved that piece for his own coming over ; signi 

 fying only to the king in the mean time, that he 

 doubted there were some greater ones in the business, 

 whereof he would give the king further account when 

 he came to his presence. 



Upon Allhallows-day-even, being now the tenth 

 year of the king s reign, the king s second son Henry 

 was created Duke of York ; and as well the duke, as 

 divers others, noblemen, knights-bachelors, and gen 

 tlemen of quality, were made knights of the Bath 

 according to the ceremony. Upon the morrow after 

 twelfth-day, the king removed from Westminster, 

 where he had kept his Christmas, to the Tower of 

 London. This he did as soon as he had advertise 

 ment that Sir Robert Clifford, in whose bosom or 

 budget most of Perkin s secrets were laid up, was 

 come into England. And the place of the Tower 

 was chosen to that end, that if Clifford should accuse 



