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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the fourtéenth of Ianuarie came to the court don Hugo de Mendoza, a man of a noble familie in Spaine:An ambassa|dour from the emperour. he came as ambassadour from the empe|rour put it to the kings determination, whether his demands which he required of the French king were reasonable or not. This noble man tarried here two yéeres. Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cliiij. A plaie at Graies In. ¶This Christmasse was a goodlie dis|guising plaied at Graies In, which was compiled for the most part by maister Iohn Roo, sergeant at the law manie yeares past, and long before the car|dinall had any authoritie. The effect of the play was, that lord gouernance was ruled by dissipation and negligence,The argu|ment of the plai [...] by whose misgouernance and euill order ladie publike weale was put from gouernance: which caused rumor populi, inward grudge and disdaine of wanton souereignetie, to rise with a great multi|tude, to expell negligence and dissipation, and to re|store publike welth againe to hir estate, which was so doone.