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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Christopher prince and margraue of Baden,The mar|graue or mar|ques of Badẽ and his wi [...]e great with child come to London. with Cicilie his wife sister to the king of Swethland, af|ter a long and dangerous iournie, wherein they had trauelled almost eleuen months sailing from Stock|holme, crossing the seas ouer into Lifeland, from whence by land they came about by Poland, Prussie, Pomerland, Meckelburgh, Friseland, and so to Ant|werpe in Brabant, then to Calis, at the last in Sep|tember landed at Douer, and the eleuenth daie of the same they came to London, and were lodged at the earle of Bedfords place neere to Iuie bridge, where within foure daies after, that is to saie, the fiftéenth of September she trauelled in childbed,She is deli|uered of a child. and was de|liuered of a man child: which child the last of Sep|tember was christened in the quéenes maiesties chappell of White hall at Westminster, the quéenes maiestie in hir owne person being godmother, the archbishop of Canturburie, and the duke of Norf|folke godfathers. At the christening the quéene gaue the child to name Edwardus Fortunatus: for that God had so gratiouslie assisted his mother,The quéene giueth the name. in so long and dangerous a iournie, and brought hir safe to land in that place, which she most desired, and that in so short time before hir deliuerance.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The eleuenth of Nouember, the right honorable Ambrose earle of Warwike maried Anne eldest daughter to the earle of Bedford.Mariage of the earle of Warwike. For the honor and celebration of which noble mariage, a goodlie cha|lenge was made and obserued at Westminster at the tilt, each one six courses: at the tournie twelue strokes with the sword, thrée pushes with the punchi|on staffe: and twelue blowes with the sword at bar|riers, EEBO page image 1209 or twentie if anie were so disposed. At ten of the clocke at night the same daie a valiant seruice|able man called Robert Thomas,Robert Tho|mas maister gunner slaine by casualtie. maister gunner of England, desirous also to honour the feast and ma|riage daie (in consideration the said earle of War|wike was generall of the ordinance within hir ma|iesties realmes and dominions) made thrée great traines of chambers, which terriblie yéelded foorth the nature of their voice, to the great astonishment of diuerse, who at the firing of the second was vnhappi|lie slaine by a péece of one of the chambers, to the great sorow and lamentation of manie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Anno Reg. 8.The foure and twentith of December in the mor|ning, there rose a great storme and tempest of wind, by whose rage the Thames and seas ouerwhelmed manie persons, and the great gates at the west end of S. Paules church in London (betwéene the which standeth the brasen piller) were through the force of the wind,Paules gate blowen open. then in the westerne part of the world, blowne open. In Ianuarie monsieur Rambulet a knight of the order in France was sent ouer into England,Order of saint Michaell. by the French king Charles the ninth of that name, with the order: who at Windsore was stalled in the behalfe of the said French king, with the knighthood of the most honorable order of the garter. And the foure and twentith of Ianuarie, in the chappell of hir maiesties palace of Whitehall, the said monsieur Rambulet inuested Thomas duke of Norffolke, and Robert earle of Leicester, with the said order of S. Michaell.

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