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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sundrie pageants were deuised, and stages verie faire and excellent to behold, with such melodie of in|struments, and other tokens of ioy and gladnesse,Sée Ed. Hall in H. 8. fo. xcv [...] & deinceps. that woonder it was to consider the manner thereof. The emperour was lodged at the Blacke friers, and all his nobles in the new palace of Bridewell. On Whitsundaie being the eight of Iune, the emperour and the king rode to the cathedrall church of saint Paule, and there heard masse,Note the pride of cardi|nall woolsie. which was soong by the cardinall that had his trauerse, and cupboord. Before masse, two barons gaue him water, and after the gospell two earles; and at the last lauatorie, two dukes: which pride the Spaniards sore disdained. The emperour thus remained with the king certeine daies and rode to diuerse places with him, being still feasted & banketted, and had all the pleasure shewed to him that might be imagined. At Windsor they taried a whole weeke and more, where on Corpus Christi daie, the emperour ware his mantell of the garter, and sate in his owne stall.The emperor and the king of England sweare each to other to ob|serue the league made betwixt them. On the same daie both the princes receiued the sacrament, and after that seruice was ended, they tooke their corporall othes to kéepe and obserue the league, which was concluded betwixt them. On the morrow after, they departed from Windsor, and by soft and easie iour|neies they came to Winchester, on the two & twen|tith of Iune.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now before the emperour was thus come to Winchester, the earle of Surrie being high adme|rall of England,Erle of Sur|rie high adme|rall of Eng|land. was come to Hampton with all the kings nauie, & with him the lord Fitz Walter, the baron Curson, sir Nicholas Carew, sir Richard Wingfield, sir Richard Ierningham, Francis Bri|an, sir William Barentine, sir Adrian Foskew, sir Edward Donne, sir Edward Chamberleine, sir Richard Cornwall, sir Anthonie Poines, sir Henrie Shirborne, and the viceadmerall sir William Fitz Williams, sir Edmund Braie, sir Giles Capell, sir William Pirton, Iohn Cornwallis, sir Iohn Wal|lop, sir Edward Echingham, sir William Sidneie, Anthonie Browne, Giles Husie, Thomas Moore, Iohn Russel, Edward Bray, Henrie Owen, George Cobham, Thomas Oldhall, Thomas Louell, Robert EEBO page image 874 Ierningham, Anthonie Kneuet, sir Iohn Trema [...]le, and sir William Skeuington the maister of the kings ordinance, & Iohn Fabian sergeant at armes, by whome this enterprise was chieflie mooued, with diuerse others, which in the end of Iune departed from Hampton, noising that they should onelie scowre the seas for safegard of the emperour and his nauie.

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