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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The citizens liked not of this forme of procéeding in the dukes matter, bicause the king was yoong, and could not giue order therein, but by substitutes: yet at length with much adoo, they were contented to submit themselues, as the duke had doone before, though not, till that the knights had vndertaken vp|on their oth of fidelitie and knighthood, that their sub|mission should not redound to the temporall or bodi|lie harme of any of them, consenting to the kings will in this point. And so with this caution they tooke their iournie towards Sheene, where they found the new K. with his mother, the duke of Lancaster & his brethren, vncles to the king, and diuerse bishops, a|bout the bodie of the deceassed king. When it was knowen that the Londoners were come, they were called before the king, by whom the matter was so handled, that the duke and they were made fréends. After this, when the king should ride through the citie towards the coronation, the said duke and the lord Percie riding on great horses before him, as by ver|tue of their offices appointed to make way before, v|sed themselues so courteouslie, modestlie, and plea|santlie, [...]hat where before they two were greatlie sus|pected of the common people, by reason of their great puissance in the realme, and huge rout of reteiners, they ordered the matter so, that neither this day, nor the morrow after, [...]eing the day of the kings corona|tion, they offended any maner of person, but rather by gentle and swéet demeanour they reclaimed the harts of manie, of whome before they were great|lie had in suspicion, and thought euill of. ¶But now, sith we are entred into the matter of this kings co|ronation, we haue thought good breefelie to touch some particular point thereof (as in Thomas Wal|singham we find it) though nothing so largelie here, as the author himselfe setteth it foorth, bicause the pur|pose of this worke will not so permit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king, in riding thorough the citie towards Westminster,The maner & order of the kings coro|nation. on the 15 daie of Iulie being wednes|daie, was accompanied with such a traine of the no|bilitie and others, as in such case was requisite. Sir Simon Burlie bare the sword before him, and sir Nicholas Bond lead the kings horsse by the bridle on foot. The noise of trumpets and other instruments was maruellous, so that this seemed a day of ioy and mirth, a day that had beene long looked for, bicause it was hoped, that now the quiet orders and good lawes of the land, which thorough the slouthfulnesse of the aged king deceassed, and couetousness of those that ruled about him, had beene long banished, should now be renewed and brought againe in vse. The citie was adorned in all sorts most richlie. The water conduits ran with wine for the space of three houres togither. In the vpper end of Cheape, was a certeine castell made with foure towers, out of the which castell, on two sides of it, there ran foorth wine abundantlie. In the towers were placed foure beautifull virgins, of stature and age like to the king, apparelled in white vestures, in euerie tower one, the which blew in the kings face, at his approching néere to them, leaues of gold and as he approched also, they threw on him and his horsse f [...]orens of gold counterfeit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When he was come before the castell, they tooke cups of gold, and filling them with wine at the spouts of the castell, presented the same to the king and to his nobles. On the top of the castell, betwixt the foure towers, stood a golden angell, holding a crowne in his hands, which was so contriued, that when the king came, he bowed downe & offered to him the crowne. But to speake of all the pageants and shewes which the citizens had caused to be made, and set foorth in honour of their new king, it were superfluous; e|uerie one in their quarters striuing to surmount o|ther, and so with great triumphing of citizens, and ioy of the lords and noble men, he was conueied vn|to his palace at Westminster, where he rested for that night. The morrow after being thursdaie, and the 16 day of Iulie, he was fetcht to the church with procession of the bishops and monks, and comming before the high altar, where the pauement was coue|red with rich clothes of tapistrie, he there kneeled downe and made his praiers, whilest two bishops soong the Letanie, which being finished, the king was brought to his seat, the quéere singing an an|theme, beginning, Firmetur manus tu [...] .

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