Compare 1577 edition: 1 The eighteenth of Aprill at Westminster was Thomas lord Cromwell created earle of Essex,Aduanc [...]ment of Thomas Cromwell. and ordeined great chamberleine of England, which of|fice the earles of Oxford were woont euer to enioie; also Gregorie his sonne was made lord Cromwell. The foure and twentith of Aprill, Thomas lord Audleie, & chancellor of England, with sir Anthonie Browne, maister of the kings horsses, were made knights of the night honourable order of the garter. On Maie daie, was a great triumph of iusting at Westminster, which iusts had beene proclaimed in France, Flanders, Scotland, and Spaine, for all commers that would, against the challengers of England; which were, sir Iohn Dudleie, sir Thomas Seimer, sir Thomas Poinings, sir George Carew knights, Anthonie Kingston, and Richard Crom|well esquiers, which said challengers came into the lists that daie richlie apparelled, and their horsses trapped all in white veluet, with certeine knights and gentlemen riding afore them, apparelled all in white EEBO page image 951 veluet, and white sarsenet, and all their seruants in white dublets, and hozen cut after the Burgonion fashion: and there came to iust against them the said daie, of defendants fortie six, the earle of Surrie be|ing the formost, lord William Howard, lord Clin|ton, and lord Cromwell, sonne and heire to Thomas Cromwell earle of Essex, and chamberleine of Eng|land, with other, which were richlie apparelled.

And that day, sir Iohn Dudleie was ouerthrowne in the field,Sir Iohn Dudleie o|uerthrowne. by mischance of his horsse, by one master Breme defendant, neuerthelesse he brake diuerse speares valiantlie after that. And after the said iusts were doone, the said challengers rode to Durham place, where they kept open houshold, and feasted the king and quéene, with hir ladies, and all the court. The second of Maie, Anthonie Kingston & Richard Cromwell were made knights at the said place. The third of Maie, [...]rnieng. the said challengers did tournie on horssebacke with swords, & against them came nine and twentie defendants; sir Iohn Dudleie, and the earle of Surrie running first, who in the first course lost both their gantlets: and that daie, sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew master Palmer in the field off his horsse, to the great honor of the challengers. On the fift of Maie,B [...]rri [...]rs. the said challengers fought on foot at the barriers, and against them came thirtie de|fendants, which fought valiantlie: but sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew that daie at the barriers ma|ster Culpeper in the field.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The said challengers brake vp their houshold, af|ter they had kept open hospitalitie, and feasted the king, quéene, and all the lords, beside all the knights and burgesses of the common house in time of the parlement, and the maior, aldermen, and all their wiues to their no small honor, though great expense. In the parlement which began the eightéenth of A|prill last past, the religion of saint Iohns in Eng|land, commonlie called the order of knights of the Rhodes,The order of the Rhodes dissolued. was dissolued; & on the ascension day, being the fift of Maie, sir William Weston knight, prior of saint Iohns departed this life for thought (as was reported) which he tooke to the heart, after he heard of that dissolution of his order. I S. pag 1019. Saint Iohns in Smithfield suppressed. ¶For the king tooke all the lands that belonged to that order into his hands, to the augmentation of his crowne, and gaue vnto euerie of the challengers aboue written for a re|ward of their valiantnesse, a hundred marks, and a house to dwell in of yearelie reuenues out of the said lands for euer.]