At euerie towne as they passed, he was receiued with procession,Cardinall C [...]peius [...]ceiued with [...]reat pompe. and accompanied with all the lords & gentlemen of Kent. And when he came to Blacke|heath, there met him the duke of Norffolke, with a great number of prelats, knights, & gentlemen, all richlie apparelled. And in the waie he was brought into a rich tent of cloath of gold, where he shifted him|selfe into the robe of a cardinall, edged with ermins; and so tooke his mule riding towards London. The night before he came to London, the cardinall of Yorke, to furnish the carriages of the cardinall Campeius, sent to him twelue mulets with emptie coffers couered with red: which twelue mulets were led thorough London amongest the mulets of Cam|peius, which were but eight; and so these twentie mu|lets passed thorough the stréets, as though they had béene full of treasures, apparell, & other necessaries.

What trum|perie was in dosed in the lord legats chests.Now when they came into Cheape, one of the mu|lets brake from hir kéeper, and ouerthrew the chests, and ouerturned two or thrée other mulets carriages, which fell with such a violence, that diuerse of them vnlocked; & out of some fell old hosen, broken shooes, and roasted flesh, peeces of bread, egges, and much vile baggage. At which sight the boies cried; Sée, sée my lord legats treasure: and so the muletters were ashamed, and tooke vp all their stuffe and passed foorth. About thrée of the clocke in the after noone on the twentie ninth day of Iulie the said legat entered the citie, and in Southworke met him all the clergie of London, with crosses, censors, and copes, and censed him with great reuerence. The maior and aldermen, with all the occupations of the citie in their best liue|ries stood in the stréets, and him highlie honoured: to whome sir Thomas More made a bréefe oration in the name of the citie.

Now when he came to Paules, there he was recei|ued with bishops mitred, and vnder a canopie ente|tered the church: which canopie his seruants tooke for their fees. And when he had offered, he gaue his bene|diction to all the people, & tooke againe his mule, & so with all his traine aforesaid was conueied to Bath place, and there rested: where he was welcommed of cardinall of Yorke. On sundaie next insuing,The glorious shewes or pompous port of the two car|dinals going to the court. these two cardinals as legats tooke their barges, & came to Gréenewich, ech of them had besides their crosses two pillers of siluer, two little axes gilt, and two cloake-bags embrodered, & the cardinals ha [...]s borne before them. And when they came to the kings hall, the cardinall of Yorke went on the right hand: and there the king roiallie apparelled and accompanied, met them euen as though both had come from Rome and so brought them both vp into his chamber of pre|sence.