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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After that the foresaid grant was passed and ac|corded, the parlement was proroged till the tenth of Iune. During which prorogation, the common peo|ple said to the burgesses; Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cx. Sirs, we heare say you will grant foure shillings of the pound, we aduise you to doo so that you may go home: with manie euill words and threatnings. In this season the cardinall by his power legantine dissolued the cõuocation at Pouls called by the archbishop of Canturburie,The cardinall dissolueth the archbishop of Canturbu|ries conuo|cation. calling him and all the cleargie to his conuocation at Westmin|ster, which was neuer séene before in England (saith Hall) whereof maister Skelton a merrie poet wrote:

Gentle Paule lay downe thy sweard,
For Pe [...]er of Westminster hath shauen thy beard.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 When the parlement was begun againe, the gen|tlemen that saw themselues charged with twelue pence more of the pound for their lands, did so much, that it was granted, that men of fiftie pounds and vpward in goods, should also pay twelue pence of e|uerie pound in the fourth yeare: which could not bee brought about but with great adoo, and much grud|ging of the burgesses and commons. The one and thirtith of Iulie, the parlement was adiourned [...] Westminster, & there continuing till the thirtéen [...] of August, was that day at nine of the clock at night dissolued. During the time of this parlement, the seuen and twentith of Aprill,Arthur Plan|tagenet crea|ted vicount Lisle. was sir Arthur Plan|tagenet, bastard sonne to king Edward the fourth, at Bridewell created vicount Lisle, in right of his wife, which was wife to Edmund Dudleie beheaded.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king of Denmake arriueth in England.In this yeare the fiftéenth of Iune, Christerne king of Denmarke, with his wife, and a small traine with them, landed at Douer, where he was noblie receiued by the earle of Deuonshire, the bishops of Excester and Rochester, and diuerse knights and es|quiers which brought them to Gréenwich, where the king and queene rec [...]iued them with all honor. Now after he had remained at the court certeine daies,Sée Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cxj. he was brought to London, & lodged at Bathplace. He saw the watch on saint Peters eeuen, beeing brought vnto the kings head in Cheape, accompa|nied with the duke of Suffolke, the earles of Oxford, Essex, and Kent, and diuerse other lords and ladies. The citie made to him and to his wife a costlie ban|ket that night,The ketteth of London [...] the [...] of Denmark. and after he had passed the time a while in London, he resorted againe to the king, and had of him great gifts, and so likewise had his wife of the quéene hir aunt, & then taking their leaue they depar|ted, and were conueied to Douer.The king of Denmarke de|parteth out of England [...] Flanders. And thus after this king had béene in England two and twentie daies, he tooke shipping, and sailed againe into Flanders, where he remained as a banished man out of his owne countrie.

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