Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now after this good order taken, and the citizens by such meanes as were deuised, willing to further the same, the report therof was made vnto the kings maiestie: and his grace for the aduancement here|of, was not onelie willing to grant such as should be the ouerséers and gouernors of the said houses a cor|poration and authoritie for the gouernement there|of: but also required that he might be accounted as the chiefe founder and patrone thereof.K. Edward the sixt foun|der of the hos|pitals in Lõ|don. And for the furtherance of the said worke, and continuall main|tenance of the same, he of his méere mercie and good|nesse granted, that where before certeine lands were giuen to the maintenance of the house of the Sa|uoie, founded by king Henrie the seuenth, for the lod|ging of pilgrims and strangers, and that the same was now made but a lodging of loiterers, vaga|bonds, and strumpets that laie all daie in the fields, and at night were harboured there, the which was rather the maintenance of beggerie, than the reliefe of the poore, gaue the same lands, being first surren|dred into his hands by the maister and fellowes there (which lands were of the yearelie value of six hundred pounds) vnto the citie of London, for the maintenance of the foundation aforesaid.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 And for a further reliefe, a petition being made to the kings maiestie for a licence to take in mort|maine, or otherwise without licence, lands to a cer|teine yearelie [...]alue, and a space left in the patent for his grace to put in what summe it would please him; he looking on the void place, called for pen and inke, and with his owne hand wrote this summe, in these words (foure thousand marks by yeare) and then said in the hearing of his councell:A blessed king.
Lord God I yeeld thée most hartie thanks, that thou hast giuen mée life thus long, to finish this worke to the glorie of thy name.After which foundation established, he liued not a|boue two daies, whose life would haue béene wished equall to the patriarchs, if it might haue pleased God so to haue protracted the same. But he was too good a prince for so bad a people, and therefore God re|mooued him, and translated him to his owne king|dome, foreséeing the euent of something which in his secret counsell he had purposed, against a nation that knew not the benefit of the acceptable time of grace: wherein God by this péerelesse princes means ment all good to this land, as might be gathe|red by the reformation of religion, wherin the kings care was exceeding great, as his desire to establish Gods glorie was zealous: according to that notable EEBO page image 1083 allusion of Iohn Leland recorded in praise of this most excellent prince, as followeth in this epigram:
Allusio ad ety|mon nominis Eaduerdi.Quisquis Eaduerdum Romano expresserat ore,Custodem fidei dixerit esse sacrae.Hoc ego crediderim puero feliciter ortoA superis nomen coelitùs esse datum.Est pater antiquae fidei defensor amicus,Degener & nullo tempore natus erit.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to returne where we left. By example of the charitable act of this vertuous yoong king, sir Willi|am Chester knight and alderman of London,Sir William Chester. Iohn Cal|throp draper. and Iohn Calthrop citizen and draper of the said citie, at their owne proper costs and charges made the bricke walles and way on the backeside that leadeth from the said new hospitall, vnto the hospitall of saint Bartholomewes, and also couered and vau|ted the towne dich from Aldersgate to Newgate, which before was verie noisome and contagious to the said hospitall.