The king my fa|ther which concluded my marriage, I am sure, was not so ignorant but he asked counsell of clearks and well learned men before he married me the second time: for if he had had anie doubt in my marriage, he would not haue disbursed so great a tresure as he did, & then all the doctors in a maner agréed my mar|riage to be good, insomuch that the pope himselfe, which knew best what was to be doone, did both di|spense and ratifie the second marriage, against whose dooings I maruell that any person will speake or write.
And as to the determination of the vniuersitie, I am a woman, and lacke wit and learning to answer to them, but to God I commit the iudgement of that, whether they haue doone iustlie or parciallie: for this I am sure, that neither the kings father, nor my fa|ther would haue condescended to our marriage, if it had beene declared to be vnlawfull. And where you saie that I should put the cause to eight persons of this realme for quietnesse of the kings conscience, I pray God send his grace a quiet conscience. And this shall be your answer: that I saie I am his lawfull wife, and to him lawfullie married, and by the order of holie church I was to him espoused as his true wife (although I was not so woorthie) and in that point I will abide till the court of Rome, which was priuie to the beginning, haue made thereof a deter|mination and finall ending.
With this answer the lords departed to the king, which was sorie to heare of hir wilfull opinion, and in especiall that the more trusted in the popes law, than in kéeping the precepts of God.]
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Forsomuch as merchant strangers, bringing their wares into the realme, did receiue readie mo|nie for them, and euer deliuered the same monie to o|ther merchants by exchange, not emploieng it vpon the commodities of the realme,A proclamati|on for mer|chant stran|gers. a proclamation was set foorth and made, that no person should make anie exchange, contrarie to the meaning of a statute or|deined in the time of king Richard the second: by reason whereof, clothes and other commodities of this realme shortlie after were well sold, till they fell to exchange againe, and that this proclamation was forgotten. After Whitsuntide, the king & the queene remooued to Windsor, and there continued till the fourtéenth of Iulie, on the which daie the king remoo|ued to Woodstocke, and left the quéene at Windsor, where she remained a while, & after remooued to the More, and from thence to Estamstéed, whither the king sent to hir diuerse lords, to aduise hir to be con|formable to the law of God, shewing sundrie rea|sons to persuade hir to their purpose, and one among the rest vsed for that present this communication, as I find it left in writing, in the behoofe of the king.