Before whose comming, the maior being aduerti|sed thereof, tooke order,The king is receiued [...] honorablie [...] to the citie of Excester. and gaue commandement to euerie citizen and inhabitant, being of abilitie, to prouide and prepare for himselfe a gowne of the ci|ties liuerie, which was then red colour, and to be in a readinesse for receiuing of the king, which was accor|dinglie doone. And when the king was come neere to the citie, the maior being verie well attended with foure hundred persons well and séemelie apparelled in the cities liuerie, went to the south gate, and with|out the same attended the kings comming. Who when he was come, the maior did his most humble obeisance, and therewith Thomas Dowrish then re|corder of the citie made vnto his grace an humble oration, congratulating his comming to the citie: which ended, the maior deliuered vnto the king the keies of the gates and the maces of his office, and therewith a pursse of one hundred nobles in gold,The citizen [...] be neuole [...] to the king. which his grace tooke verie thankfullie. The monie he kept, but the keies and the maces he deliuered backe to the maior; and then the maior tooke the mace and did beare it through the citie bare-headed before the king, vntill he came to his lodging.

The next daie following, being Palmesundaie, the king in most princelie and roiall maner came to the cathedrall church of saint Peters, to heare the diuine seruice, where he followed and went in procession af|ter the maner as was then vsed, round about the churchyard, to the great ioy and comfort of all the people:How long the king con|tinued in the citie. he continued in the citie thrée daies vntill the tuesdaie then following; who when he had dined tooke his horsse and departed backe towards London, and gaue to the maior great good thanks for his inter|teinement. About foure moneths after this, in Au|gust,The duke of Clarence [...] the earle of Warwike [...] on the English coasts. the duke of Clarence and the erle of Warwike returned againe from Calis, with all their retinue, & landed some at Plimmouth, some at Dartmouth, and some at Exmouth: but all met in this citie, and from hence they all passed towards London, and at euerie place they proclamed king Henrie the sixt, Which when king Edward heard, he was very much troubled therewith: and not able then to withstand their force, he passed the seas to his brother in law the duke of Burgognie.

This yeare also, being verie troublesome, and the EEBO page image 677 gouernement vncerteine,The practise [...] knight [...] chiefe [...] at the [...] to rid [...] of [...]. men were in great per|plexities, & wist not what to doo. And among manie there was one speciallie to be remembred, who to rid himselfe out of these troubles, did deuise this practise: his name was sir William Haukesford knight, a man verie well learned in the lawes of the realme, and one of the chiefe iustices at the law: he dwelled at Annorie in Deuonshire, a gentleman of great possessions, and hauing neuer a sonne, the lord Fitz Warren, sir Iohn Sentleger, & sir William Bul|leine, who maried his daughters, were his heires. This man being one of the chiefest lawiers in the land, was dailie sought to and his counsell asked: and he considering that when the sword ruled, law had a small course, and finding by experience what fruits insue such counsell as dooth not best like the parties, was verie heauie, sorrowfull, and in great agonies.