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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 ¶ We haue omitted (as things superfluous to speake of) all the honorable demenor and courteous interteinement vsed and shewed betwixt these prin|ces and noble men on both parts, their sundrie fea|stings and banketings, what rich apparell, plate, and other furniture of cupboords and tables, the princelie gifts and rich iewels which were presented from one to an other, striuing (as it might séeme) who should shew himselfe most bounteous and liberall:The expen|ses of king Richard at this inter|view. beside the gifts which the king of England gaue vnto the French king, and to the nobles of his realme (which amounted aboue the summe of ten thousand marks) the K. of England spending at this time (as the fame went) aboue thrée hundred thousand marks. After the kings returne to Calis on wednesdaie next in|suing,The mariage solemnized at Calis. being All hallowes daie, in solemne wise he married the said ladie Isabell in the church of saint Nicholas, the archbishop of Canturburie dooing the office of the minister.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The thursdaie after, the dukes of Orleance and Burbon came to Calis to sée the king & the quéene: and on the fridaie they tooke their leaue and depar|ted, and rode to saint Omers to the French king. On the same daie in the morning the king and the queene tooke their ship, and had faire passage: for within thrée houres they arriued at Douer, from whence they sped them towards London, whereof the citizens being warned, made out certeine horsse|men well appointed in one liuerie of colour, with a deuise imbrodered on their sléeues, that euerie com|panie might be knowne from other, the which with the maior and his brethren,The maior of London and the citizens meete the K. & the quéene on Blacke|heath. clothed in skarlet, met the king and quéene on Blackeheath, and there dooing their duties with humble reuerence attended vpon their maiesties till they came to Newington: where the king comanded the maior with his companie to returne, for that he was appointed to lodge that night at Kennington.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Shortlie after, to wit, the thirteenth of Nouember, the yoong quéene was conueied from thence with great pompe vnto the Tower, at which time there was such prease on London bridge,

Certeine thrust to death in the prease on London bridge.

Iohn Stow. The quéens coronation.

that by reason thereof, certeine persons were thrust to death: a|mong the which the prior of Tiptrie, a place in Es|sex was one, and a worshipfull matrone in Cornehill an other. The morow after she was conueied to Westminster with all the honor that might be deui|sed, and finallie there crowned queene vpon sun|daie being then the seauenth of Ianuarie. On the two and twentith of Ianuarie was a parlement be|gun at Westminster,The duke of Lancaster his bastards mad [...] legitimate by parlement. in which the duke of Lancaster caused to be legitimated the issue which he had begot of Katharine Swinfort, before she was his wife. ¶At the same time Thomas Beaufort sonne to the said duke, by the said Katharine, was created earle of Summerset. ¶There was an ordinance made in the same parlement, that iustices should not haue anie to sit with them as assistants. ¶Moreouer, there was a tenth granted by the clergie to be paied to the kings vse at two seuerall termes in that present yeare.The iustices reuoked out of exile. In this yeare the king contrarie to his oth reuoked the iustices foorth of Ireland, whom by constraint (as be|fore ye haue heard) he was inforced to banish, there|by to satisfie the noble men that would haue it so.

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