Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the death of the pope, Polydor. Cardinall woolsie ma|keth meanes to be elected pope. doctor Richard Pace was sent to Rome, to make fréends in the behalfe of the cardinall of Yorke, who was brought into a vaine hope thorough the kings fauour and furtherance, to be elected pope. But Adrian the sixt of that name was chosen before doctor Pace could come to Rome; and so that sute was dashed. Guic. pag. 823. ¶This Adrian bishop of Derchuso (after great contention in the college of cardinals touching the election of a new pope) was preferred to the custome of lotting of voices in the conclaue, without anie affection or parcialitie of voice: he was of nation a Fleming, & in his youth hauing béene schoolemaister to Cesar, and by his meane made cardinall vnder pope Leo, did at that time gouerne Spaine in the absence of Cesar. And as there began some voices to publish for him, so car|dinall Xisto one of that election, began vnder an ora|tion speciall, to recount and amplifie his vertues and knowledge, by whose example certeine other cardi|nals yeelded, and the residue from hand to hand fol|lowed, though more by constraint than councell.

Thus was he chosen with the voices of all the car|dinals,The election of Adrian to the popedome woondered at, and why. and had his creation perfected the same mor|ning. Wherein this was to be woondered at, that e|uen those that had elected him could giue no reason, why amid so manie troubles & dangers in the estate ecclesiastike, they had raised to the souereigne sée a stranger, a forrener, and of long absence out of the countrie, & wherin were helping no respects of fauor, no consideration of former merits, nor anie conuer|sation had with anie of the other cardinals: yea they scarselie knew his name, he had neuer béene in Ita|lie, and had no hope nor cogitation to see it: of which strauagant maner of dealing, being not able to ex|cuse themselues, they attributed all to the working of the Holie-ghost, who is woont (for so they alleged) to inspire the hearts of the cardinals in the electing of popes: he receiued newes of his election in the towne of Uictoria in Biskaie, and would not haue imposed vpon him anie other name than his owne, which he caused to be published vnder Adrian the sixt.

Now he made his entrie into Rome the nine and twentith of August,Pope Adrian the sixt, com|meth to Rome. with a great concourse of the commons and the whole court: of whome albeit his comming was desired with an vniuersall gladnesse (for that without the presence forsooth of the popes, Rome beareth more a resemblance of a sauage de|sart than of a citie) yet that spectacle wrought sun|drie impressions and diuersities of thoughts in the minds of all men, when they considered that they had a pope for nation and language a stranger, and for the affaires of Italie and the court altogither vnex|perienced: and also for that he was not of those re|gions and countries, who by long conuersation were alreadie made familiar with the customes of Italie. The enuie that stirred vp in men this consideration was redoubled by the accident of the plague, which beginning in Rome at his arriuall, afflicted the citie during the whole season of Autumne, to the great calamitie and losse of the people: a matter which in the fansies of men was construed to an euill progno|stication of his pontificacie.]