Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the emperours countries, when all things were written, sealed, and finished, there was a solemne masse soong in the cathedrall church of Cambreie, the two ladies ambassadors of the king of England, sit|ting in great estate: and after masse the peace was proclamed betwéene the thrée princes, and Te Deum soong, and monie cast to the people, and great fires made through the citie. The same night the French king came into Cambreie, well and noblie accom|panied, and saluted the ladies, and to them made di|uerse bankets: and then all persons departed into their countrie, glad of this concord. This peace was called the womens peace,The womens peace. for bicause that notwith|standing this conclusion, yet neither the emperour trusted the French king, nor he neither trusted nor loued him, and their subiects were in the same case. This proclamation was proclamed solemnelie by heralds with trumpets in the citie of London, which proclamation much reioised the English merchants, repairing into Flanders, Brabant, Zeland, and o|ther the emperors dominions. For during the wars, merchants were euill handled on both parties, which caused them to be desirous of peace.Sir Thomas Moore lord chancellor.] On the foure & twentith of Nouember, was sir Thomas Moore made lord chancellor, & the next day led to the Chan|cerie by the dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke, and there sworne.

At the daie appointed the parlement began, on which daie the king came by water to his place of Bridewell, Edw. Hall. in H. 8. fo. clxxx [...] An oration made in the audience of the parlement by sir Tho|mas Moore. and there he and his nobles put on their robes of parlement, and so came to the Blacke friers church, where a masse of the Holie-ghost was solemnelie soong by the kings chappell: and after the masse, the king with all the lords of parlement and commons, which were summoned to appeare at that daie, came into the parlement chamber, where the king sate in his throne or seat roiall: and sir Thomas Moore his chancellor, standing on the right hand of the king behind the barre, made an eloquent ora|tion.

In this oration he declared, that like as a good shéepheard, which not alonelie keepeth and attendeth well his shéepe, but also foreseeth and prouideth for all things which either may be hurtfull or noisome to his flocke, or maie preserue and defend the same against all perils that may chance to come: so the king which was the shéepheard, ruler and gouernour of his realme, vigilantlie foreséeing things to come, consi|dered how diuers laws before this time were made, now by long continuance of time and mutation of things, verie insufficient and vnperfect: and also by the fraile condition of man, diuerse new enormities were sproong amongest the people, for the which no law was yet made to reforme the same. Which was the verie cause whie at that time the king had sum|moned his high court of parlement. And hée re|sembled the king to a shéepheard or heardman for this cause: for if a prince be compared to his riches, he is but a rich man; if a prince be compared to his honour, he is but an honourable man: but compare him to the multitude of his people, and the number of his flocke, then he is a ruler,Wherein the person of the king is pro|perlie reputed a ruler. a gouernor of might & puissance, so that his people maketh him a prince, as of the multitude of shéepe commeth the name of a shéepheard. And as you sée that amongst a great sort of shepe some be rotten & faultie, which the good shéep|heard sendeth from the good sheepe: so the great wed|der which is of late fallen (as you all know) so crafti|lie, so scabbedlie, yea and so vntrulie iugled with the king, that all men must néedes ghesse and thinke, that he thought in himselfe that he had no wit to per|ceiue his craftie dooing; or else that he presumed that the king would not sée nor know his fraudulent iug|ling and attempts. But he was deceiued: for his graces sight was so quicke and penetrable, that hée saw him, yea and saw through him, both within and without, so that all things to him was open, and ac|cording to his desert he hath had a gentle correction.