Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Iohn lord Latimer, although he was vnder age,The lord La|timer. for himselfe and the duke of Norfolke, notwithstan|ding that his possessions were in the kings hands, by his atturnie sir Thomas Graie knight, claimed and had the office of almoner for that daie, by reason of certeine lands which sometime belonged to the lord William Beuchampe of Bedford. They had a towell of fine linnen cloth prepared, to put in the siluer that was appointed to be giuen in almes; and like|wise they had the distribution of the cloth that coue|red the pauement and floors from the kings chamber doore, vnto the place in the church of Westminster where the pulpit stood. The residue that was spread in the church, the sexten had. William le Uenour,William l [...] Uenour. by reason he was tenant of the manor of Liston, clai|med and obteined to exercise the office of making wafers for the king the daie of his coronation. The barons of the fiue ports claimed,The barons of the cinqu [...] ports. and it was granted them, to beare a canopie of cloth of gold ouer the K. with foure staues, & foure bels at the foure corners, euerie staffe hauing foure of those barons to beare it: also to dine and sit at the table next to the king on his right hand in the hall the daie of his coronation, and for their fees to haue the forsaid canopie of gold, with the bels and staues, notwithstanding the abbat of Westminster claimed the same. Edmund cham|bers claimed and obteined the office of principall lar|derer for him and his deputies, by reason of his ma|nour of Skulton, otherwise called Burdellebin Skulton, in the countie of Norfolke. Thus was eue|rie man appointed to exercise such office as to him of right apperteined, or at the least was thought requisit for the time present. On mondaie then next insuing, EEBO page image 511 when the states were assembled in parlement, order was taken, that by reason of such preparation as was to be made for the coronation, they should sit no more till the morow after saint Edwards daie. On the sundaie following, being the euen of saint Ed|ward, the new king lodged in the Tower, and there made fortie & six knights of the Bath, to wit: thrée of his sonnes,Knights of the Bath. the earle of Arundell, the earle of War|wike his sonne, the earle of Stafford, two of the earle of Deuonshires sonnes, the lord Beaumont, the lord Willoughbies brother, the earle of Staffords bro|ther, the lord Camois his sonne, the lord of Maule, Thomas Beauchampe, Thomas Pelham, Iohn Lut|trell, Iohn Lisleie, William Haukeford iustice, William Brinchleie iustice, Bartholomew Rach|ford, Giles Daubenie, William Butler, Iohn Ash|ton, Richard Sanape, Iohn Tiptost, Richard Fran|cis, Henrie Persie, Iohn Arundell, William Strall, Iohn Turpington, Ailmer Saint, Edward Ha|stings, Iohn Greislcie, Gerald Satill, Iohn Arden, Robert Chalons, Thomas Dimocke, Hungerford, Gibethorpe, Newport, and diuerse other, to the num|ber of fortie and six.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the morow being saint Edwards daie, and the thirtéenth of October,The lord ma|ior of Lon|don. the lord maior of London road towards the Tower to attend the king, with diuerse worshipfull citizens clothed all in red, and from the Tower the king rode through the citie to Westminster, where he was consecrated, annointed, and crowned king by the archbishop of Canturburie with all ceremonies and roiall solemnitie as was due and requisit. Though all other reioised at his ad|uancement,The earle of March en|uied the K. preferment. yet suerlie Edmund Mortimer earle of March, which was coosine and heire to Lionell duke of Clarence, the third begotten sonne of king Ed|ward the third, & Richard earle of Cambridge, sonne to Edmund duke of Yorke, which had married Anne sister to the same Edmund, were with these dooings neither pleased nor contented: insomuch that now the diuision once begun, the one linage ceassed not to persecute the other, till the heires males of both the lines were cléerlie destroied and extinguished.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the daie of the coronation, to the end he should not séeme to take vpon him the crowne and scepter roiall by plaine extorted power, and iniurious intru|sion: he was aduised to make his title as heire to Ed|mund (surnamed or vntrulie feined) Crookebacke,Edmund erle of Lancaster vntrulie fas|ned to be sur|named Crookebacke. sonne to king Henrie the third, and to saie that the said Edmund was elder brother to king Edward the first, and for his deformitie put by from the crowne, to whom by his mother Blanch, daughter and sole heire to Henrie duke of Lancaster, he was next of blood, and vndoubted heire. But because not onelie his fréends, but also his priuie enimies, knew that this was but a forged title, considering they were suerlie informed, not onelie that the said Edmund was yoonger sonne to king Henrie the third, but also had true knowledge, that Edmund was neither c [...]ooke ba [...]ked, nor a deformed person, but a goodlie gentleman, and a valiant capteine, and so much fa|uored of his louing father, that he to preferre him in marriage to the queene Dowager of Nauarre, ha|uing a great liuelihood, gaue to him the countie pa|lantine of Lancaster, with manie notable honours, high segniories, and large priuileges. Therefore they aduised him to publish it that he challenged the realme not onelie by conquest, but also because he by king Richard was adopted as heire, and decla|red by resignation as his lawfull successor, being next heire male to him of the blood roiall.