Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now at his returning, manie hearing of his going on maieng, were desirous to sée him shoot, for at that time his grace shot as strong and as great a length as anie of his gard. There came to his grace a certeine man with bow and arrowes, and desired his grace to take the muster of him,The king a good archer. and to sée him shoot; for at that time his grace was contented. The man put the one foot in his bosome, and so did shoot, and shot a verie good shoot, and well towards his marke: whereof, not onelie his grace, but all other greatlie maruelled. So the king gaue him a reward for his so dooing; which person afterwards of the peo|ple, and of them in the court, was called, Foot in bo|some. The same yeare in the feast of Pentecost, hol|den at Gréenwich,The king cha+lengeth all commers at sundrie exer|cises of ac|tiuitie that is to say, the thursdaie in the same wéeke, his grace with two other with him, chalenged all commers, to fight with them at the barriers with target, and casting the speare of eight foot long; and that doone, his grace with the said two aides to fight euerie of them twelue strokes with two handed swordes, with and against all commers, none excepted being a gentleman; where the K. be|haued himselfe so well, and deliuered himselfe so vali|antlie by his hardie prowesse and great strength, that the praise and laud was giuen to his grace, and his aides: notwithstanding that diuerse and strong per|sons had assailed him and his aides.

From thense the whole court remooued to Wind|sor, then begining his progresse, & exercising himselfe dailie in shooting, singing, dansing, wrestling, casting of the barre, plaieng at the recorders, flute, virgi|nals, in setting of songs, and making of ballads; he did set two full masses, euerie of them fiue parts, which were soong oftentimes in his chappell, and af|terwards in diuerse other places. And when he came to Oking, there were kept both iustes and turneies: the rest of this progresse was spent in hunting, haw|king, Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 894. Pouls schoole. and shooting. ¶ Doctor Colet deane of Poules erected a frée schoole in Poules church yard in Lon|don, and committed the ouersight thereof to the ma|sters and wardens of the mercers, bicause himselfe was borne in London, & was sonne to Henrie Co|let mercer, sometime lord maior of the citie of Lon|don. On Midsummer night,The king [...]|parel [...]ed [...] one of the gard. the king came priuilie into Cheape, in one of the cotes of his gard; and on saint Peters night, the king and quéene came ri|ding roiallie to the kings hed in Cheape, there to be|hold the watch of the citie.]

Now when the said progresse was finished, his grace, the quéene, with all their whole traine, in the moneth of October following, remooued to Gréene|wich. The king not minded to sée yoong gentlemen vnexpert in martiall feates, caused a place to be pre|pared within the parke of Greenwich, for the quéene and the ladies to stand & sée the fight with battle axes that should be doone there,The king fighteth wit [...] a battle are against an Almaine. where the king himselfe armed, fought with one Giot a gentleman of Al|maine, a tall man, and a good man of armes. And then after they had doone, they marched alwaies two and two togithers, and so did their feats and enter|prises euerie man verie well. Albeit, it happened the said Giot to fight with sir Edward Howard, which Giot was by him striken to the ground. The morow after this enterprise doone, the king with the quéene came to the Tower of London. And to the intent that there should no displeasure nor malice be borne by anie of those gentlemen, which fought with the ax against other; the king gaue vnto them a certeine summe of gold, valued at two hundred markes, to make a banket among themselues withall. The which banket was made at fishmongers hall in Thames stréet, where they all met to the number of foure and twentie, all apparelled in one sute or liuerie, after Al|maine fashion; that is to say, their vtter garments all of yellow sattin, yellow hosen, yellow shooes, gir|dels, scabberds, and bonnets with yellow feathers, their garments and hosen all cut & lined with white sattin, and their scabberds woond about with sattin. After their banket ended, they went by torchlight to the Tower, & presented themselues before the king, who tooke pleasure to behold them.