Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to let this passe, soone after the kings com|ming into England, he was informed that the Welshmen had broken into the English marshes, and destroied certeine townes; to represse whose pre|sumptuous attempts he made towards them, but was yet staied for that time, & reuoked by his mother. At Salisburie he found his fathers treasure,His fathers treasure. highlie reioising, for that the summe was far greater than he thought it would haue prooued, for besides the pre|tious stones, apparell, and iewels, it was reported he had there the sum of nine hundred thousand pounds in readie coine. With this good hap king Richard not a little aduanced, came to London on the first of September, R. Houed. Gau. Vinsaf. Nic. Triuet. The second of September saith Ger. Dor. where he had appointed prouision to be made for his coronation, and so calling a councell of the Nobles of the realme, he receiued the crowne with all due and accustomed solemnitie, at the hands of Baldwin the archbishop of Canturburie, the third daie of September.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The order of his coronatiõ. Matth. Paris. At his coronation, first the archbishops of Can|turburie, Roan, Trier, and Dublin, which were pre|sent, with all the other bishops, abbats and cleargie, apparelled in rich copes, and hauing the crosse, holie water and censures carried afore them, came to fetch him vnto the doore of his priuie chamber, and there receiuing him, they led him vnto the church at West|minster, till he came before the high altar with a so|lemne procession. In the middle of the bishops and cleargie went foure barons, Rog. Houed. bearing candlesticks with tapers, after whom came Geffrey de Lucie bea|ring the cap of maintenance, and Iohn Marshall next to him, bearing a great and massiue paire of spurs of gold: then followed William Marshall earle of Striguill aliàs Pembroke, who bare the roi|all scepter, in the top wherof was set a crosse of gold: and William de Patrike earle of Salisburie going next him, bare the warder or rod, hauing on the top thereof a doue. Then came thrée other earles, Dauid brother to the king of Scots, the earle of Hunting|ton, Iohn the kings brother earle of Mortaigne, and Robert earle of Leicester, ech of them bearing a sword vpright in his hand with the scabberds richlie trimmed and adorned with gold.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earle of Mortaigne went in the midst be|twixt the other two. After them followed six earles and barons, bearing a checker table, vpon the which was set the kings scochens of armes, Rog. Houed. and then fol|lowed William Mandeuill earle of Albemarle, bea|ring a crowne of gold a great heigth before the king, who followed the same, hauing Hugh bishop of Dur|ham on the right hand, and Reignold bishop of Bath on the left, ouer whom a canapie was borne: and in this order he came into the church at Westminster, where before the high altar in the presence of the cleargie & the people,The king his oth. laieng his hand vpon the holie euangelists and the relikes of certeine saincts, he tooke a solemne oth, that he should obserue peace, ho|nour, and reuerence to almightie God, to his church, and to the ministers of the same all the daies of his life. Also that he should exercise vpright iustice to the people committed to his charge, and that he should abrogate and disanull all euill lawes and wrongfull customes, if anie were to be found within the pre|cinct of his realme, and mainteine those that were good and laudable.