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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: 438 of 1201 (1587, Volume 6, p. 861)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this, there followed roiall maskes, and on the sundaie the foure and twentith of Iune, [...] the king of England with foure companies, in euerie companie ten, trimlie appointed in masking apparell, rode to Ard: and likewise the French king accompanied with eight and thirtie persons as maskers repaired to Guisnes. They met on the waie, & each companie passed by other without any countenance making or disuisarding. They were honorablie receiued, as well at the one place as the other. And when they had en|ded their pastime, banketting, and danses, they retur|ned and met againe on the way homeward, and then putting off their visards, they louinglie embraced: and after amiable communication togither, they tooke leaue each of other, & for a remembrance gaue gifts either to other verie rich and princelie.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
Snippet: 439 of 1201 (1587, Volume 6, p. 861)

[...] ¶ During this triumph, much people of Picar|die and west Flanders drew to Guisnes, to sée the king of England & his honor, to whom vittels of the court were giuenin plentie, the conduit of the gate did run wine alwaies. There were vagabonds, plowmen, labourers, and of the bragerie, wagoners and beggers, that for drunkennesse laie in routs and heapes. [...] So great resort came thither, that knights and ladies, who were come to sée the noblenesse, were faine to lie in haie and straw, and held them thereof highlie pleased. From the court of the emperour, nor of the ladie Margarets court, nor of Flanders, Bra|bant, nor Burgognie came neuer a person to an|swer to the chalenge. By that it séemed that there was small loue betwene the emperour & the French king. Moreouer, monsieur Faiot capteine of Bul|longne with monsieur Chattelon, did their deuoir to haue taken the towne of saint Omer, of which dooing was thought no goodnesse to the emperour.]

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
Snippet: 440 of 1201 (1587, Volume 6, p. 861)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On mondaie the fiue and twentith of Iune, the king with the quéene remooued from Guisnes to Ca|lis where he remained till the tenth of Iulie,

King Henrie departed from Guisnes to Calis, a from thence to Graueling to visi [...] the em|perour.

[...] Hall in H. S. fol. [...].

on which daie he rode to Graueling, and was receiued on the waie by the emperour, and so by him conueied to Graueling, where not onelie the king, but also all his traine was cheared and feailed, with so louing ma|ner, that the Englishmen highlie praised the empe|rours court. [When the French king and his lords had knowledge of the meeting of the emperour and the king of England in the towne of Graueling, they were therewith grea [...]lie gréeued, as by manie things appeared. For as the Englishmen were in France disdained, and in their sutes there greatlie deferred, and had little right, and much lesse fauour: so from day to day still more and more began hart|burning, and in conclusion open warre did arise be|tweene the two realmes.]

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