Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then the king appointed the lord Lisle,The [...] taken in the king of Eng|lands behalfe. the lord A|burgauenie, & the lord Willoughbie to take possessi|on, which with six thousand men entered the citie, and tooke the market place and the wals, and searched the houses for feare of treason. Then maister Thomas Woolsie the kings almoner called before him all the citizens yoong and old, and sware them to the king of England, the number whereof was foure score thou|sand. Thus the king of England by conquest came to the possession of the citie of Tornaie. On sundaie the second daie of October, the king entered the citie of Tornaie at port founteine, and foure of the chiefe of the citie ouer him bare a canopie with all the armes of England. Euerie person was in his best apparell, the ladies & gentlewomen laie in the win|dowes beholding the king and his nobilitie, euerie citizen had in his hand a staffe torch. The king him|selfe was richlie apparelled in rich armour on a bar|ded courser, his henchmen bearing his péeces of war, as ax, speare, and other, their coursers were barded with the armes of England, France, Ireland, and o|ther the kings dominions all richlie brodered. Thus the king with his nobilitie all richlie apparelled with his sword borne before him, his heralds and serge|ants of armes with trumpets and minstrelsie ente|red the citie, and came to our ladie church, and there Te Deum was soong.

Then the king called to his presence,The king [...] cert [...] gentlemẽ ( [...] their good ser|uice) knights. Edward Guilford, William Fitz Williams, Iohn Danfie, William Tiler, Iohn Sharpe, William Husse, Iohn Sauage, Christopher Garnish, and diuerse other vali|ant esquiers, and gaue to them the order of knight|hood, and then went to his lodging, and at after noone he came to the market place, were was prepared for him a roome. Then he caused a proclamation to be made in his name king of England & France, that no man should gréeue the citizens. During which pro|clamation the Tornasins scarse looked vp, nor shew|ed once to him any amiable countenance, which was much marked. The crie finished, the king departed to his campe, leauing the citie in safe keeping. This wéeke the king rode to sée the castell of Morton, and there his grace tooke great pleasure. The king re|membring the great chéere that the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret had made him at Lisle, which was but twelue miles English from Tornaie, desi|red the said prince & ladie, with diuerse other to come to him to his citie of Tornaie, and made preparation for the same, and appointed a iusts, whereof he him|selfe would be one; and caused a tilt to be made in the market place.

While these things were preparing, the king and EEBO page image 825 his councell ordered for the sure kéeping of the citie of Tornaie,Sir Edward Poinings [...] lieute|nant of Tor|naie. and there ordeined sir Edward Poi|nings knight of the order of the garter to be his lieu|tenant with foure hundred archers, with capteins, horssemen, and artillerie conuenient, and to haue aid of Henaud and other the kings friends adioining; and of his gard he left there foure hundred archers, and ordinance was appointed for the defense of the same. On mondaie the eleuenth daie of October the king without the towne receiued the prince of Ca|stile, the ladie Margaret, and diuerse other nobles of their countries, and them brought into Tornaie with great triumph. The noise went that the lord Lisle made request of mariage to the ladie Marga|ret duches of Sau [...]ie, and daughter to the emperour Maximilian, which before that time was departed from the king with manie rich gifts and monie bor|rowed: but whether he proffered mariage or not, she fauoured him highlie. There the prince and duches so|iourned with great solace by the space of ten daies.