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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About the two and twentith of Ianuarie, the king sailed ouer into France,The K. pas|s [...]th ouer [...] France. and at Bullongne in Pi|cardie on the foure and twentith day of Ianuarie, he did homage to the French king for his lands of Gas|coine and Pontieu, and on the morrow after,1 [...]0 [...] maried Isabell the French kings daughter,He w [...]s mar|ried the 2 [...] [...] Februarie [...] Tho. de la More [...] and on the sea|uenth of Februarie he returned with hir into Eng|land, and comming to London, was ioifullie recei|ued of the citizens, and on the fiue and twentith daie EEBO page image 319 of Februarie, being Shrouesundaie in the leape yeare,The king and quéene crow|ned. they were solemnlie crowned by the bishop of Winchester, bicause that Robert the archbishop of Canturburie was not as then within the realme. There was such prease and throng of people at this coronation,

Tho. Walsin. Sir Iohn Blackwell smoothered and thrust to death.

Continuation of N. Triuet.

that a knight called sir Iohn Bakewell aliàs Blackwell, was thrust or crowded to death. ¶On the day of the circumcision this yeare, a great tem|pest of thunder and lightning began about euensong time, that continued the most part of the night fol|lowing.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On wednesdaie after the Epiphanie, the knights templers in England were apprehended all in one day by the kings commandement, vpon suspicion of hainous crimes & great enormities by them practi|sed, contrarie to the articles of the christian faith. The order of their apprehension was on this wise.The order taken for the apprehension of the tẽplers. The king directed his writs vnto all and euerie the shi|riffes of counties within the realme, that they should giue summons to a certeine number of substantiall persons, knights or other men of good accompt, to be afore them at certeine places within their gouerne|ments, named in the same writs, on the sunday the morrow after the Epiphanie then next insuing, and that the said shiriffes faile not to be there the same day in their owne persons, to execute that which in o|ther writs to them directed, and after to be sent, should be conteined. The date of this writ was the fifteenth of December.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The second writ was sent by certeine chapleins, in which the shiriffes were commanded vpon the ope|ning of the same, foorthwith to receiue an oth in pre|sence of the said chapleins, to put in execution all that was therein conteined, and not to disclose the contents to any man, till they had executed the same with all expedition, and therewith to take the like oth of those persons, whom by vertue of the first writ they had summoned to appeare afore them. An other writ there was also framed & sent by the same chapleins, by the which the said shiriffes were commanded to attach by their bodies, all the templers within the precinct of their gouernements, and to seize all their lands and goods into the kings hands, togither with their writings, charters, deeds, and miniments, and to make thereof a true inuentarie and indenture, in presence of the warden of the place, whether he were brother of that order, or any other, & in presence of ho|nest men being neighbors; of which indenture, one part to remaine in the custodie of the said warden, and the other with the shiriffe, vnder his seale that should so make seizure of the said goods: and further, that the said goods and chattels should be put in safe custodie, and that the quicke goods and cattell should be kept and found of the premisses as should séeme most expedient, and that their lands and possessions should be manured and tilled to the vttermost com|moditie.

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