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.

This plaie was so set foorth with rich and costlie ap|parell, with strange deuises of maskes & morrishes, that it was highlie praised of all men,The cardi|nall is offen|ded at it and punisheth the author and actors of the same. sauing of the cardinall, which imagined that the play had beene de|uised of him, and in a great furie sent for the said mai|ster Roo, and tooke from him his coife, and sent him to the Fléet; and after he sent for the yoong gentlemen, that plaied in the plaie, and them highlie rebuked and threatned, and sent one of them called Thomas Moile of Kent to the Fléet, but by means of friends maister Roo and he were deliuered at last. This plaie sore displeased the cardinall, and yet it was neuer meant to him, as you haue heard. Wherfore manie wisemen grudged to sée him take it so hartilie, and e|uer the cardinall said that the king was highlie dis|pleased with it, and spake nothing of himselfe. But what will you haue of a guiltie conscience but to sus|pect all things to be said of him (as if all the world knew his wickednesse) according to the old verse:

Conscius ipse sibi de se putat omnia dici.]