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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
Snippet: 416 of 1201 (1587, Volume 6, p. 858)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king of England had giuen vnto the said cardinall full authoritie, power, and libertie, to af|firme and confirme, bind and vnbind, whatsoeuer should be in question betwéene him and the French king: and the like authoritie, power, and libertie, did the French king by his sufficient letters patents,

Great credit committed to the cardinall by both the kings.

The inter|uiew of the two kings in the vale of Andren.

grant to the same cardinall, which was accepted to be a signe of great loue, that he should commit so great a trust vnto the king of Englands subiect. The daie of the meeting was appointed to be on the thurs|daie the seauenth of Iune, vpon which daie the two kings met in the vale of Andren, accompanied with such a number of the nobilitie of both realmes, so richlie appointed in apparell, and costlie iewels, as chaines, collars of SS, & other the like ornaments to set foorth their degrees and estates, that a woonder it was to behold and view them in their order and roomes, which euerie man kept according to his ap|pointment.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
Snippet: 417 of 1201 (1587, Volume 6, p. 858)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The two kings méeting in the field, either saluted other in most louing wife, first on horsebacke, and after alighting on foot estsoones imbraced with cour|teous words, to the great reioising of the beholders: and after they had thus saluted ech other, they went both togither into a rich tent of cloath of gold, there set vp for the purpose, in the which they passed the time in pleasant talke, banketting, and louing deuises, till it drew toward the euening, and then departed for that night, the one to Guisnes, the other to Ard. At this meeting of the two kings in open sight, I then well perceiued (saith Hall) the habillements roiall of the French king. Edw. Hall. in H. 8. fol. lxxvij. The French kings roiall ornaments. His garment was a chemew, of cloath of siluer, culponed with cloath of gold, of da|maske, cantell wise, and garded on the borders with the Burgon bands.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
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Ouer that he had a cloake of broched sattin, with gold of purple colour, wrapped about his bodie tra|uerse, beded from the shoulder to the wast, fastned in the loope of the first fould: this said cloake was richlie set with pearles and pretious stones. This French king had on his head a coife of damaske gold set with diamonds, and his courser that he rode on was co|uered with a trapper of tissue, brodered with deuise, cut in fashion mantell wise, the skirts were embow|ed and fret with frized worke, and knit with cor|belles & buttons tasseled of Turkie making, raines and headstall answering of like worke: and verelie of his person the same Francis the French king, a goodlie prince,The descrip|tion of the French kings person. statelie of countenance, merie of chéere, browne coloured, great eies, high nosed, big lipped, faire brested, broad shoulders, small legges, & long féet.

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