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In Iune the king had with him diuerse ambassa|dours, for solace of whome he prepared a costlie iu|stes, he himselfe & twelue more against the duke of Suffolke and other twelue.Solemne [...]|stes between the king and others. His base and bard was the one halfe cloth of siluer, & the other halfe blacke tinsell. On the siluer was a curious lose worke of veluet imbrodered with gold, cut on the siluer, and euerie cut ingrailed with gold, so that that side was gold, siluer, and veluet. On the blacke tinsell side was blacke veluet imbrodered with gold, and cut, and euerie cut was ingrailed with flat gold of da|maske. The base and bard were brodered with great letters of massie gold bullion, full of pearles and stones, maruellous rich: all his companie were in like sute, sauing that they had no iewels. The king had on his head a ladies sleeue full of diamonds. On the king attended gentlemen, armourers, and other officers,A gallant and glorious sh [...] to the number of an hundred and twentie fiue persons, all in white veluet and white sattin, horsse and harnesse for horssemen, caps and hosen for footmen, all white, at the kings cost. Thus roiallie the king and his companie with his waiters came to the tilts end.

Then entered the duke of Suffolke, with the marques Dorset, the earls of Essex and Surrie, and eight other of his band, in bards and bases of white veluet and crimsin sattin losenged, set full of letters of C. M. of gold, for Charles and Marie, and they tooke the other end of the tilt.The king & the duke run personallie. Then the trumpets blue, and the king and the duke ran fiercely togither, and brake manie speares, and so did all the other, that it was hard to saie who did best. But when the cour|ses were run, they ran volant one at another, so that both by the report of sir Edward Gilford maister of the armourie, and also of the iudges and heralds, at these iustes were broken fiue hundred and six spears: and then the king the same night made the ambassa|dours a sumptuous banket, with manie riddels and much pastime. After this great triumph, the king appointed his ghests for his pastime this summer; but suddenlie there came a plague of sickenesse, cal|led the sweating sickenesse, that turned all his pur|pose.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This maladie was so cruell, that it killed some within thrée houres, some within two houres,The sweting sicknesse per|emptorie and deadlie. some merrie at dinner, and dead at supper. Manie died in the kings court, the lord Clinton, the lord Graie of Wilton, and manie knights, gentlemen, and offi|cers. For this plague Michaelmasse tearme was adiourned. And bicause that this maladie continued from Iulie to the midst of December, the king kept himselfe euer with a small companie, and held no solemne Christmasse, willing to haue no resort for feare of infection: but much lamented the number of his people, for in some one towne halfe the people died, and in some other towne the third part, the sweat was so feruent and infectuous. [By the extre|mitie whereof, Abr. Flem, and the multitudes with such sudden|nesse and present mortalitie dropping awaie: it should seeme that they little remembred, or at least|wise neglected the preseruatiue remedie vsed in the first great sweating sickenesse in Sée before. pag. 763, 764 king Henrie the seuenths time, whereby as then manie a mans life was saued, so now the like benefit (by applieng of the same wholsome meanes) might haue redounded to the patients.]

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