¶ On the tuesdaie being the tenth daie of Octo|ber, all the Englishmen, Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall [...] H. 8. fol. x [...] except a few that were offi|cers EEBO page image 833 with the said quéene,English [...] dis| [...]ged of [...] places [...]nd offices [...]der the [...]. were discharged; which was a great sorrow for them, for some had serued hir long in hope of preferment, & some that had honest roomes left them to serue hir, and now they were without seruice, which caused them to take thought, in so much some died by the waie returning, and some fell mad, but there was no remedie. After the English lords had doone their commission, the French king willed them to take no longer paine, and so gaue to them good rewards; and they tooke their leaue of the queene and returned. Then the Dolphin of France called lord Francis duke of Ualois,The Dol| [...] causeth [...] [...]usts [...] be pr [...]cla| [...]ed a [...] Paris. and by his wife duke of Britaine, for the more honour of this mariage before the Englishmen departed from Abuile, caused a so|lemne iusts to be proclamed, which should be kept at Paris in the moneth of Nouember next insuing.

Namelie, that he with his nine aids should an|swer all commers, being gentlemen of name and of armes. First to run fiue courses at the tilt with pée|ces of aduantage, & also fiue courses at randon with sharpe speares, and twelue strokes with sharpe swords; and that doone, he and his aids to fight at the barriers with all gentlemen of name and of armes. First six foines with hand speares, and after that eight strokes to the most aduantage if the speare so long held, and after that twelue strokes with the sword: and if anie man be vnhorssed or felled with fighting on foot, then his horsse and armour to be ren|dered to the officers of armes: and euerie man of this chalenge must set vp his armes and name vpon an arch triumphant, which shalbe made at the place where the iustes shalbe, and further shall write to what point he will answer, to one or to all.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When this proclamation was reported in Eng|land by the noble men that returned from the ma|riage:English nobi| [...]tie craue [...] of the [...] to go [...] to the [...]. the duke of Suffolke, the marquesse Dorset, and his foure bretheren, the lord Clinton, sir Ed|ward Neuill, sir Giles Capell, Thomas Cheneie, and other sued to the king to be at the chalenge, which re|quest he gratiouslie granted. Then the lords and knights prepared all things necessarie for their en|terprise, and shipped there horsses and harnesse, and did so much by iourneie, that they came to Paris at the end of October, which were hartilie welcomed of the king and the Dolphin: but most of all of the French queene which then laie at saint Denise, and was not yet crowned nor entered into Paris. The Dolphin desired the duke of Suffolke and the lord marquesse Dorset, to be two of his immediat aids, which thereto assented.