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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Ambassadors sent from king Henrie [...] the French [...].Shortlie after their departure, the earle of Wor|cester, lord chamberleine, the bishop of Elie, the lord of saint Iohns, sir Nicholas Uaux, sir Iohn Pe|chie, sir Thomas Bullen, as ambassadours from the king of England, accompanied with thrée score and ten knights, gentlemen and yeomen, to the num|ber of foure hundred and aboue, passed the sea to Ca|lis, and so from thense went to Paris, where they were noblie receiued, & being brought to the French kings presence, the bishop of Elie made a solemne oration touching the mariage and peace concluded. [To interteine the English ambassadours and gen|tlemen, Edw. Hall in H. 8 fol. lxv [...]. A banketting house of the French kings descri|bed. the French king had made a banketting house in the bastill of Paris betwéene foure old walles. This house was couered with cords streined by craft, and euerie cord was woond about with box, and so laid crossewise one ouer an other in fret, and at the méetings a great knop gilt with gold foile. O|uer their cords was streined woollen cloaths of light blew: this roofe was foure score foot high, and on e|uerie side three stages high: all the pillers of the sta|ges were couered with antike works, & the brests of the stages curiouslie wrought with armes, viniets, and branches: the roofe was set full of starres gilt & furnished with glasses betwéene the frets. In this house was two hundred and twelue branches gilt hanged, & on euerie branch a great number of lights of white wax.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Diuerse sorts of maskes were shewed also that night: and at euerie side of the palace a great cup|boord of massie plate of much greatnesse was set, the French king welcomming the lords and ambas|sadours with good countenance.] Here is to be re|membred, that immediatlie after the conclusion of the marriage, a rumor was raised, that the Dolphin was dead before, and that this marriage was but a colourable pretext, deuised of the Frenchmen for a policie to come by their purpose: and therefore, after that the English ambassadours had beene feasted and interteined with banketting and princelie pastime, the bishop of Elie, with sir Thomas Bullen, and sir Richard Weston, were appointed to go vnto Coniacke to see the Dolphin, where they were hono|rablie receiued, and brought vnto the presence of the Dolphin, being a goodlie yoong child, whome they kis|sed and imbraced in most louing wise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The earle of Worcester, and with him sir Nicho|las Uaux, sir Iohn Pechie, sir Edward Belknap, and diuerse others at the same time, tooke leaue of the French king, and rode to Tornaie to sée the citie deliuered to the Frenchmen. Wherevpon, the eight of Februarie, the lord Chatillon came thither with one and twentie hundred men; and after some con|trouersie mooued about the deliuerie of his commis|sion, and sealing an indenture, which the earle had there readie ingrossed, conteining the articles of a|greement, in consideration whereof it was deliue|red, the capteine sir Richard Ierningham was dis|charged, and the Frenchmen suffered to enter with drumslads and minstrelsie,The maner how Tornaie was deliuered to the French king. but not with standards nor banners, which the Englishmen caused them to roll vp greatlie against their wils. Before they came to the gates, they sealed the indenture, confessing how they receiued the citie as a gift, and not as a right, and deliuered their commission, whereby they were authorised to receiue it, which at the first they re|fused to doo, affirming that it was sufficient for them to shew it.

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