In this summer the queene desired the king to bring to hir manor of Hauering in the Bower in Essex the gentlemen of France being hostages,The king [...] quéene at H [...]uering in [...] Bower. for whose welcomming the purueied all things in the most liberall manner: and especiallie she made to the king such a sumptuous banket, that the king thanked hir hartilie, & the strangers gaue hir great praise. The king lieng there did shoot, hunt, and run dailie with the hostages to their great ioy. This yéere in September the king laie at his manor of New|hall in Essex, otherwise called Beaulieu,Newhall in Essex called Beaulieu. where the king had newlie builded a costlie mansion, there to welcome the queene, the lords, and the French gen|tlemen, he made to them a sumptuous banket, and all along the chamber sat a ladie & a lord, or a knight, which were plentiouslie serued.

After the banket ended, with noise of minstrels entered into the chamber eight maskers with white beards,A maske of graue and ancient cour|tiers. and long and large garments of blew sa [...]tin paned with sipers, poudered with spangles of bulli|on gold, and they dansed with ladies sadlie, and com|muned not with the ladies after the fashion of mas|kers, but behaued themselues grauelie. Wherfore the quéene plucked off their visors, and then appeared the duke of Suffolke, the earle of Essex, the marquesse Dorset, the lord Aburgauennie, sir Richard Wing|field, sir Robert Wingfield, sir Richard Weston, sir William Kingston: all these were somewhat aged, the yoongest man was fiftie at the least. The ladies had good sport to see these ancient persons maskers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When they departed, the king and the foure ho|stages of France, and the earle of Deuonshire with six other yoong gentlemen entered the chamber,A maske of youthfull courtiers. of the which six were all in yellow sattin, hose, shooes, and caps, and six other were in like maner in greene: the yelow sattin was fretted with siluer of damaske, and so was the greene verie richlie to behold: then euerie masker tooke a ladie and dansed. When they had dansed and communed a great while, their visors were taken off, and they knowne, and the king gaue manie brooches and proper gifts where he liked.] In the moneth of Nouember the king came from Lambeth to Westminster hall,The king [...]t|teth in the Starcham|ber in iudge|ment. and so to the Star|chamber, and there were brought before him the lord Ogle, the lord Howard, sir Matthew Browne, sir William Bulmer, and Iohn Scot of Camerwell, for diuerse riots, misdemeanors, & offenses by them committed: but the king speciallie rebuked sir Wil|liam Bulmer knight, bicause he being his seruant sworne, refused the kings seruice, and became ser|uant EEBO page image 853 to the duke of Buckingham: yet at length vp|on his humble crauing of mercie, still knéeling on his knées before his grace, the king pardoned him his offense: and likewise he pardoned the lord Ho|ward, and sir Matthew Browne, their offenses: but bicause the lord Ogles matter concerned murther, he remitted him to the common law. And then he rose and went to his barge, and by the waie made Iames Yarford maior of the citie of London knight, and so returned to Lambeth.