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.

I [...]stes held [...] Tornaie for disport of the prince of Castile & the duchesse of Sauoie.During which time, the eightéenth daie of Octo|ber began the iusts, the king and the lord Lisle answe|ring all commers: vpon the king attended foure & twentie knights on foot in coats of purple veluet and cloth of gold. A tent of cloth of gold was set in the place for the armorie & Reliefe. The king had a base and a trapper of purple veluet both set full of SS of bullion, and the lord Lisle in the same suite, there were manie speares broken, and manie a good buffet giuen; the strangers, as the lord Walon and lord E|merie and other did right well. When the iusts were doone, the king & all the other vnhelmed them, & rode about the tilt, and did great reuerence to the ladies, and then the heralds cried to lodging. This night the K. made a sumptuous banket of an hundred dishes to the prince of Castile and the ladie Margaret, and to all other lords and ladies; and after the banket the la|dies dansed, and then came in the king and eleuen in a maske, all richlie apparelled with bonets of gold, and when they had passed the time at their pleasure, the garments of the maske were cast off amongst the ladies, take who could take.