Compare 1577 edition: 1 The sixt day of Aprill this present yeare, the nobles of the realme assembled in the cathedrall church of S. Paule in London, where the maior of the same citie, his brethren the aldermen, and the craftesmen in their liueries also assembled: Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 866. to whome doctor Morton chancellor made an oration, declaring how the king of Spaine had woone the great and rich citie & coun|trie of Granado from the Turks: for ioy whereof Te Deum was soong with great solemnitie. ¶ But bi|cause it is requisite and necessarie in this ample vo|lume, Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall, in Hen. 7. fo. xxii [...] &c. to set downe the report of accidents as they are to be found at large in our owne English wri|ters:Granado woone from the Turkes or Sarac [...]. you shall heare for the furtherance of your knowledge in this matter concerning Granado, what Ed. Hall hath left noted in his chronicle. Which although it conteine diuerse actions of superstition, and popish trumperie: yet should it not offend the reader, considering that a people estranged from the true knowledge of God and sincere religion put the same in practise, as supposing principall holinesse to consist in that blind deuotion.

On the sixt of Aprill (saith he) this yéere, the king commanded all the nobilitie of his realme to assem|ble at the cathedrall church of S. Paule in London, where (after Te Deum solemnlie soong) the cardinall of Canturburie, standing on the steps before the quier doore, declared to the people, how the famous citie of Granado, which manie yeares had beene possessed of the Moores or Mauritane nation, being infidels & vnchristened people, was now of late be|sieged a great time by Don Ferdinando and Eliza|beth his wife, king and quéene of Spaine, Arragon, and Castile. And the said infidels, by reason of siege brought to great penurie and miserie, for lacke of vittels & necessarie viands, perceiuing that all suc|cours were clerelie stowed and excluded from them, and so brought into vtter despaire of aid, or comfort, after long consultation had amongst them, determi|ned to render themselues and their citie to the said king vpon diuerse couenants and conditions, and therevpon sent to him diuerse senators of the citie fullie instructed of their mind and purpose.

The king of Spaine and his councell, considering and sagelie pondering that winter approched & was at hand, and that the christian host had long lieu in the fieldes in sore tempests and greeuous stormes (which they gladlie suffered for Christes sake, in whose cause and quarell they made that present warre) re|remembring also that the citie was of such riches, fame, and estimation, that it conteined an hundred and fiftie thousand houses of name,The citie of Granado con|teined an hu [...]dred and fiftie thousand hou|ses, besides co|tages & [...] dwellings. beside other small houses and cotages; & that it was replenished with people innumerable, and furnished with three score and ten thousand good fighting men; and finallie, perceiuing that he might inioy now the possession of the same, without assault or effusion of christian EEBO page image 773 bloud by the aduise of his councell, he accepted, ac|corded, and agreed to their offers the twentie and fift of Nouember, in the yeare of Christs incarnation 1491, then being the daie of saint Katharine.