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Compare 1577 edition: 1 His praiers ended, and desiring ech man to praie for him, he laid downe his head againe, and so the ex|ecutioner foorthwith tooke it from him at one stroke. On the thrée and twentith of August the quéene deli|uered the great seale to doctor Gardiner bishop of Winchester, and made him lord chancellor.New lord chancellor. The sea|uen and twentith of August,Latine ser|uice. the seruice began in La|tine to be soong in Pauls church in London. The six and twentith of August in the euening the notablest ship in England called the great Harrie was burnt at Woolwich by negligence of the mariners,Great Harrie a ship burnt. she was of burthen a thousand tuns. The first of Sep|tember the quéene demanded a prest of the citie of London of twentie thousand pounds,Prest to the quéene. to be repaied againe within fouretéene daies after Michael masse next folowing, which sum was leuied of the aldermen and one hundred & twentie commoners. The fourth of September was proclamed certeine new coins of gold and siluer,New coine [...]. a souereigne of gold of thirtie shil|lings, the halfe souereigne fiftéene shillings, an an|gell at ten shillings, the halfe angell fiue shillings. Of siluer, the grote, halfe grote and pennie:Subsidie par|doned. all base coines to be currant as before. Also the same daie by proclamation was pardoned the subsidie of foure shillings the pound of lands, and two shillings eight pence the pound of moouable goods, granted in the last parlement of king Edward the sixt.] Soone af|ter this Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturbu|rie, and late before of king Edwards priuie councell,The archbi|shop of Can|turburie com|mitted to the tower. was committed to the tower of London, being char|ged of treason, not onelie for giuing aduise to the dis|heriting of quéene Marie, but also for aiding the duke of Northumberland with certeine horsse and men against the queene, in the quarrell of the ladie Iane of Suffolke: wherein (if he were culpable) he EEBO page image 1091 lacked the prouidence and foresight of after-claps, which Sée before pag. 1030, 1031 doctor Parker in the insurrection Ket vsing saued both his life and estimation.

Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow 1067.¶On the seuen and twentith of September quéene Marie came to the tower by water, accompanied with the ladie Elizabeth hir sister, and other ladies, before whose arriuall there was shot a great peale of guns. The last of September quéene Marie rode through the citie of London towards Westminster, sitting in a chariot of cloth of tissue, drawne with six horsses all trapped with the like cloth of tissue. She sate in a gowne of purple veluet, furred with pow|dered ermins,Coronation of quéene Ma|rie, hir pompe and traine. hauing on hir head a kall of cloth of tinsell, béeset with pearle and stone, and aboue the same vpon hir head a round circlet of gold, béeset so richlie with pretious stones, that the value thereof was inestimable, the same kall and circle being so massie and ponderous, that she was faine to beare vp hir head with hir hand, and the canopie was borne ouer hir chariot.Who rode be|fore and after hir. Before hir rode a number of gen|tlemen & knights, then iudges, then doctors, then bi|shops, then lords, then the councell, after whome fol|lowed the knights of the Bath in their robes, the bi|shop of Winchester lord chancellor, and the marques of Winchester lord high treasuror, next came the duke of Norffolke, and after him the earle of Oxford, who bare the sword before hir, the maior of London in a gown of crimsin veluet bare the scepter of gold, &c. After the quéenes chariot sir Edward Hastings led hir horsse in his hand: then came another chariot hauing a couering of cloth of siluer all white, and six horsses trapped with the like: therein sate the ladie Elizabeth,The ladie Elizabeth and the ladie Anne of Cleue. and the ladie Anne of Cleue: then ladies and gentlewomen riding on horsses trapped with red veluet, and their gownes and kirtles like|wise of red veluet; after them folowed two other cha|riots couered with red sattin, and the horsses betrap|ped with the same, and certeine gentlewomen be|twéene euerie of the said chariots riding in crimsin sattin, their horsses betrapped with the same; the num|ber of the gentlewomen so riding were six and fortie, besides them in the chariots.

At Fanchurch was a costlie pageant made by the Genowaies:A pageant made by stran|gers. at Gracechurch corner there was an o|ther pageant made by the Easterlings. At the vpper end o [...] Gracesstréet there was an other pageant made by the Florentins verie high, on the top where|of there stood foure pictures, and in the middest of them and most highest, there stood an angell all in gréene, with a trumpet in his hand: and when the trumpetter (who stood secretlie in the pageant) did sound his trumpet, the angell did put his trumpet to his mouth, as though it had béene the same that had sounded, to the great maruelling of manie ignorant persons: this pageant was made with three thorough faires or gates, &c. The conduit in Cornehill ran wine,The conduit in Cornewall ran wine. and beneath the conduit a pageant made at the charges of the citie, and an other at the great con|duit in Cheape, and a founteine by it running wine. The standard in Cheape new painted, with the waits of the citie aloft theron plaieng. The crosse in Cheape new washed and burnished.

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