The same after noone, the king, the duke of Suf|folke, the marquesse Dorset, and the earle of Essex, their bardes and bases of gréene veluet and cloth of gold, came into the field on great coursers, on whome waited diuerse gentlemen in silke of the same co|lour. On the other side entered sixtéene lords and gentlemen, all apparelled richlie after their deuises, and so valiantlie they ran their courses appointed: & after that, they ran volant one as fast as he might ouertake another,The king and certeine no|bles ran their horsses vo|lant. which was a goodlie sight to sée: and when all was doone they departed, and went to a goodlie banket. This summer the king tooke his pro|gresse westward, and visited his townes and castels there, and heard the complaints of his poore commu|naltie; and euer as he road he hunted and liberallie departed with venison.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This yeare in September, the king being at his manour of Oking, after his returne from his pro|gresse which he made that yeare into the west parts, the archbishop of Yorke came thither to him. Whi|lest he soiourned there,The archbi|shop of Yorke elected cardi|nall. a letter was brought to the said archbishop from Rome, aduertising him that he was elected cardinall, which letter incontinentlie he shewed to the king, disabling himselfe in words, though his intent was otherwise; and so the king did incourage him, and willed him to take that dignitie vpon him, and called him from thensefoorth my lord cardinall. But his hat, bull, nor other ceremonies were not yet come.A parlement at Westmin|ster. In Nouember, the king assem|bled his high court of parlement at Westminster, wherein, diuerse acts made in the sixt yeare were re|formed and altered, and especiallie the act of apparell, and the act of labourers, as by the booke of statutes more plainelie appéereth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the end of this parlement, doctor Warham archbishop of Canturburie, and as then lord chancel|lour, perceiuing how the new lord cardinall medled further in his office of chancellorship than he could well suffer, except he should aduenture the kings dis|pleasure; for this and for other considerations gaue vp his office of chancellor into the kings hands, and deliuered to him the great seale, which incontinentlie was deliuered by the king vnto the lord cardinall,Cardinall Wolsie made lord chan|cellor. and so was he made lord chancellor. He was no soo|ner in that office, but he directed foorth commissions into euerie shire, for the execution of the statutes of apparell and labourers, and in all his dooings shewed himselfe more loftie and presumptuous than became him. Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. lvij. ¶And he himselfe on a daie called a gentleman named Simon Fitz Richard, and tooke from him an old iacket of crimsin veluet and diuerse brooches, which extreame dooing caused him greatlie to be ha|ted: and by his example manie cruell officers for malice euill intreated diuerse of the kings subiects, in so much that one Shinning, maior of Rochester, set a yoong man on the pillorie for wearing of a riuen or gathered shirt.]