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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After nine of the clocke, the king hauing shifted his apparell, came to his closet, & she likewise in hir haire, & in the same apparell she was married in she came to hir closet with hir sargeant at armes, & all hir officers before hir like a quéene, & so the king and she went openlie in procession, and offered and dined togither. After they had supped togither, there were bankets and maskes, and diuerse disports shewed, till time came, that it pleased the king and hir to take rest. On the sundaie after were kept solemne iusts,Iusts and tornements. which greatlie contented the strangers. This daie she was apparelled after the English manner, with a French hood, which became hir excéeding well. When the earle of Ouersteine and the other lords and ladies which had giuen their attendance on hir grace all that iourneie, had béene highlie feasted and interteined of the king and other of the nobles, they tooke leaue, and had great gifts giuen to them, both in monie and plate, and so returned toward their countrie, leauing behind them the erle of Wal|decke, and diuerse gentlemen and damosels to re|maine with hir, till she were better acquainted in the realme.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The fourth of Februarie, the king and she remoo|ued to Westminster by water,The king and the ladie Anne remooue to Westminster. on whome the lord maior & his brethren, with twelue of the chéefe com|panies of the citie, all in barges gorgeouslie garni|shed with baners, penons, and targets, richlie coue|red, and furnished with instruments, sweetlie soun|ding, gaue their attendance: and by the waie, all the ships shot off, and likewise from the tower, a great peale of ordinance went off iustilie.The duke of Norffolke ambassador into France. The twelfe of Februarie, the duke of Norffolke was sent in am|bassage to the French king, of whome he was well interteined, and in the end of the same moneth he re|turned againe into England.

S. Marie O|ueries made a parish church.After Christmas, the priorie church of S. Marie O|ueris in Southworke was purchased of the king by the inhabitants of the Borow, D. Gardener bishop of Winchester putting to his helping hand: they made thereof a parish church, and the little church of Marie Magdalen ioining to the same priorie, was made all one church, and saint Margarets in South|worke a parish, Iohn Stow. Erle of Essex deceassed. was admitted to the same parish. ¶The twelfe of March, Henrie Bourcher erle of Es|sex riding a yoong horsse, was cast, & brake his necke, at his manour in Essex: he was the eldest earle in England. The nintéenth of March, Iohn Uere erle of Oxford,Earle of Ox|ford deceassed. high chamberleine of England, deceassed at his manour in Essex. The tenth of Aprill, sir Willi|am Peterson priest, late commissarie of Calis,Priests at Calis exe|cuted. and sir William Richardson priest of S. Maries in Ca|lis, were both there drawne, hanged, and quartered in the market place for denieng obstinatelie the kings supremacie.]

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