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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C.

CHAPTER XXXIII
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They also threatened Cardinal Wolsey with some insult; and he thought it necessary to fortify his house, and put himself on his guard.

Tired at last with these disorders, they dispersed themselves; and the earls of Shrewsbury and Surrey seized some of them.

A proclamation was issued, that women should not meet together to babble and talk, and that all men should keep their wives in their houses.

Next day the duke of Norfolk came into the city, at the head of thirteen hundred armed men, and made inquiry into the tumult.

Bele and Lincoln, and several others, were sent to the Tower, and condemned for treason.


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