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The cardi|nals hat re|c [...]iued by the Kentish gen|tlemen with great solem|nitie.

Guic. pag. 682. Two elefants presented to the pope.

In the end of Nouember, the cardinals hat was sent into England, which the gentlemen of Kent re|ceiued, and brought to London with such triumph, as though the greatest prince in Europe had béene come to visit the king [much like that of the people at Rome in the yeare 1515, when were séene in the said citie two elephants, a nature of creatures which happilie had not béene séene in Italie since the tri|umphs and publike plaies of the Romans. Emanu|ell king of Portingall sent to pope Leo the tenth a verie honorable ambassage, and withall presented him with these huge and statelie elephants, which his ships had brought by sea from India; their entring into Rome was celebrated with a verie great con|course of people, some woondering at the strange forme and stature of the beasts, some maruelling to what vses their nature inclined them, and some con|iecturing the respects and purposes of such a present, their ignorance making their woonder farre greater than their reason.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 No lesse adoo was there at the bringing of the car|dinals hat, who on a sundaie (in S. Peters church at Westminster) receiued the same, with the habit, the piller, and other such tokens of a cardinall. And now that he was thus a perfect cardinall, he looked a|boue all estates, which purchased him great hatred and disdaine on all sides. For his ambition was no lesse discernable to the eies of the people, than the sunne in the firmament in a cléere and cloudlesse summer daie; which procured against him the more hatred among the noble and popular sort; for that his base linage was both noted and knowne, in so much that his insatiable aspiring to supereminent degrees of dignitie kindled manifest contempt and detesta|tion among such as pretended a countenance of good will and honorable dutie vnto him, though in verie deed the same parties (if fréelie and without checke they might haue spoken their fansie) would haue in|tituled him a proud popeling; as led with the like spi|rit of swelling ambition, wherwith the rable of popes haue béene bladder like puffed and blowne vp: a di|uelish and luciferian vice, in the iudgements of men abhominable, and in the sight of God most damna|ble; as the poet in this distichon trulie witnesseth:

Dij superi fastum, fastum mortales abhorrent,
Hac homini leuitas displicet atque Deo.Gu. H [...].

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After the end of the parlement, sir Edward Poi|nings laboured to be discharged of the kéeping of Tornaie, bicause he could not haue health there:The lord Mountioy made gouer|nour of Tor|naie. and so he was discharged, and sir William Blunt lord Mountioy was sent thither to haue that roome, and for marshall was appointed sir Sampson Norton. Immediatlie vpon their comming thither chanced a great riot, raised by the souldiers,A mutinie a|mongst the soldiers at Tornaie. so that to appease them, the lord Mountioy was put in ieopardie of his life. In conclusion, to quiet them sir Sampson Nor|ton was banished the towne for euer, but what the matter was I haue not found rehearsed by anie writer. After that the citie was appeased, and euerie thing thought to be forgotten, diuerse of the offen|dors were executed, and diuerse banished the towne, some fled, and were confined both out of England and the towne.

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