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Compare 1577 edition: 1 To shew what roiall seruice was at this feast, it passeth our vnderstanding to describe: but to con|clude, the fare was excéeding sumptuous, and the fur|niture princelie in all things, that if the same should be rehearsed, the reader would perhaps doubt of the truth therof. ¶In the midst of the kings palace was a marble piller raised hollow vpon steps, on the top whereof was a great gilt eagle placed, vnder whose feet in the chapiter of the piller, diuers kinds of wine came gushing foorth at foure seuerall places all the daie long, neither was anie forbidden to receiue the same, were he neuer so poore or abiect. On the mor|row after the coronation, there was a generall pro|cession of the archbishop, bishop, and abbats then present, with the lords, and a great multitude of people, to praie for the king and the peace of the kingdome.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the going foorth of this procession, the bishop of Rochester preached, exhorting them, that the dissenti|ons and discords which had long continued betwixt the people and their superiours, might be appeased and forgotten, proouing by manie arguments, that the same highlie displeased God. He admonished the lords, not to be so extreme and hard towards the peo|ple. On the other part, he exhorted the people in ne|cessarie causes, for the aid of the king and realme, chéerefullie, and without grudging, to put to their helping hands, according to their bounden duties. He further exhorted those in generall that were ap|pointed to be about the king, that they should forsake vice, and studie to liue in cleanesse of life and vertue. For if by their example the king were trained to goodnesse, all should be well; but if he declined through their sufferance from the right waie, the people and kingdome were like to fall in danger to perish. After the sermon and procession were ended, the lords and prelats went to their lodgings.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now, bicause the Englishmen should haue their ioies mingled with some sorrowes, it chanced that the Frenchmen (which about the same time that the kings grandfather departed this life, were waf|ting on the seas) within six or seauen daies after his deceasse, burnt the towne of Rie. Wherevpon, Froissard. Rie burnt by y^ [...] Frenchmen imme|diatlie after the coronation, the earles of Cambridge and Buckingham were sent with a power vnto Do|uer, and the earle of Salisburie vnto Southampton: but in the meane time, to wit, Tho. Wals. The French|men spoile the Ile of Wight. Sir Hugh Tirrell. the one and twentith of August, the Frenchmen entring the Ile of Wight, burnt diuerse townes in the same. And though they were repelled from the castell, by the valiant man|hood of sir Hugh Tirrell capteine thereof, who laid no small number of them on the ground; yet they con|streined the men of the Ile to giue them a thousand marks of siluer to saue the residue of their houses and goods, and so they departed from thence, Froissard. Tho. Walsi. Portsmouth, Dartmouth, & Plimmouth, burnt by the French. sailing still along the costs, and where they saw aduantage, set on land, burning sundrie towns néere to the shore, as Portesmouth, Dartmouth, and Plimmouth.

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