Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This yeare in the citie of London a great grudge was conceiued against merchants strangers,Great grudge against stran|gers for pro|curing licẽces to sell w [...]dad. for that they by vertue of licences, which they had pur|chased to bring woad into the realme, contrarie to a statute thereof prouided, brought ouer such plentie thereof, and vttered it aswell in the citie, as abroad in the countrie, so franklie, that Englishmens woad laie vnbought. Edw. Hall. H. 8. fol. Cliiij. At length the maior called a common councell in the moneth of August, and there were manie billes laied against the strangers, and at last it was enacted, that no citizen nor fréeman shuld buy nor sell in no place, nor exchange nor meddle with certeine strangers, called Anthonie Bonuice, Laurence Bonuice, Anthonie Uiuald, Anthonie Caueler, Francis de Bard, Thomas Calnecant, and a great sort more, whose names I let passe. And if anie person did meddle or occupie with them con|trarie to this act, he should loose his fréedome and li|bertie in the citie of London. By whi [...]h act the stran|gers were so brideled, that they came to a reasonable point and conclusion.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this season the angell noble was iust the sixt part of an ounce Troie, Ualuation of certeine coins as angels, rials, crowns, &c. so that six angels were iust an ounce, which was fourtie shillings sterling; & the angell was worth two ounces of siluer: so that six angels were worth twelue ounces, which was but fourtie shillings in siluer. By reason of the good weight and low valuation of the English coine, mer|chants dailie carried ouer great store, bicause the same was much inhanced there. So that, to méet with this inconuenience, in September proclama|tion was made through all England, that the angell EEBO page image 894 should go for seuen shillings foure pence, the roiall for eleuen shillings, & the crowne for foure shillings foure pence. On the fift of Nouember following, by proclamation againe, the angell was inhanced to se|uen shillings six pence, and so euerie ounce of gold should be fiue and fourtie shillings, and an ounce of siluer at thrée shillings and nine pence in value.

The king kept a solemne Christmasse at Gréene|wich with reuelles, Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cliiij. maskes, disguisings, & bankets: and the thirtith daie of December, was an enterprise of iusts made at the tilt by six gentlemen, against all commers, which valiantlie furnished the same, both with speare and sword: and like iusts were kept the third daie of Ianuarie, where were thrée hundred speares broken. That same night, the king and ma|nie yoong gentlemen with him, came to Bridewell, and there put him and fiftéene other, all in masking apparell, and then tooke his barge, and rowed to the cardinals place, where were at supper a great com|panie of lords and ladies, and then the maskers dan|sed, and made goodlie pastime: and when they had well dansed, the ladies plucked awaie their visors, and so they were all knowen, and to the king was made a great banket.