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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Cardinall [...] his [...] when he receiued the emperour at Douer.The cardinall taking his iournie forward on the twentith of Maie, rode through London, accompa|nied with two earles, six and thirtie knights, and an hundred gentlemen, eight bishops, ten abbats, thir|tie chapleins, all in veluet and sattin, and yeomen se|uen hundred. The marquesse Dorset was gone ouer before vnto Calis: and the fiue and twentith of Maie being sundaie,The marques Dorset recei|ueth the em|per [...]ur at Graueling. the said marquesse, with the bishop of Chichester, the lord de la Ware, and diuerse other at the water of Graueling, receiued the emperour in the name of the king of England, and with all ho|nour brought him to Calis, where he was receiued with procession, by the lord Bernes lieutenant of the towne, with the maior and merchants of the Staple, in the best maner that might be deuised.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The emperor [...] at [...].On the mondaie he tooke ship at Calis, and lan|ded at Douer, where the cardinall with thrée hundred lords, knights, and gentlemen of England was rea|die to receiue him, and with all honour that might be, brought him to the castell, where he was lodged. On wednesdaie, being the Ascension éeuen, the king came to Douer, and there with great ioy and glad|nesse, the emperour and he met. On the fridaie in the after noone they departed from Douer, & came that night to Canturburie, so from thence by easie iour|nies to Gréenewich, where she quéene receiued hir nephue with all the ioy that might be. Here the empe|rour taried certeine daies in great solace and plea|sure; and the more to honor his presence,Iustes and iournies at Gréenwich. roiall iustes and tourneies were appointed, the which were furni|shed in most triumphant maner: the king, and the earle of Deuonshire, and ten aids with them, kéeping the place against the duke of Suffolke: the marques Dorset, and other ten aids vpon their part.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On fridaie being the sixt of Iune, the king and the emperour with all their companies, marched toward London, where the citie was prepared for their entrie, after the maner as is vsed at a corona|tion, so that nothing was forgotten that might set foorth the citie. Edw. Hall. in H. 8. fol. xcviij. For the rich citizens well apparelled stood within railes set on the left side of the stréetes, and the cleargie on the right side in rich copes, which censed the princes as they passed, and all the streetes were richlie hanged with clothes of gold, siluer, vel|uet, and arras, and in euerie house almost minstrel|sie: and in euerie stréet were these two verses writ|ten in letters of gold, both Latine and English:

Carolus, Henricus, viuant; defensor vtér
Henricus fidei, Carolus ecclesiae.
That is,
Long prosperitie,
To Charles and Henrie,
Princes most puissant:
The one of the faith,
The other of the church,
Chosen defendant.

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