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Not long after this, a merrie fellow came into Paules,Salutation to the rood of Paules. and spied the rood with Marie and Iohn new set vp, wherto (among a great sort of people) he made low curtsie & said: Sir, your maistership is welcome to towne, I had thought to haue talked further with your maistership, but that ye be héere clothed in the quéenes colours. I hope ye be but a summers bird, for that ye be dressed in white & gréene, &c. The prince thus being in the church of Paules, after doctor Harpesfield had finished his oration in Latine, set forward through Fléetstreet, & so came to White hall, where he with the quéene remained foure daies af|ter, and from thence remooued vnto Richmond. Af|ter this, all the lords had leaue to depart into their countries, with strict commandement to bring all their harnesse and artillerie into the tower of Lon|don with all spéed. Now remained there no English lord at the court but the bishop of Winchester.

From Richmond they remooued to Hampton court, where the hall doore within the court was con|tinuallie shut, so that no man might enter, vnlesse his errand were first knowne: which séemed strange to Englishmen that had not béene vsed thereto. The seuentéenth daie of September,A proclamati|on for the a|uoiding of maisterlesse men out of th [...] citie of Lon|don. was a proclamati|on in London, that all vagabonds and maisterlesse men, as well strangers as Englishmen, should de|part the citie within fiue daies: and strictlie charging all inholders, vittelers, tauerners, and ale house kée|pers, with all other that sold vittels, that they (after the said fiue daies) should not sell anie meat, drinke, or anie kind of vittels or reléefe to anie seruingman whatsoeuer, vnlesse he brought a testimoniall from his maister to declare whose seruant he was, & were in continuall houshold with his said maister, vpon paine to runne in danger of the law if they offend herein.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In September,Death of the Duke of Nor [...]|folke the duke of Norffolke departed this life at Fremingham castell in Norffolke, and there was honorablie buried among his ancestors. ¶The 26 of October,A Spaniard hanged. Iohn Stow. a Spaniard was hangd at Cha|ringcrosse for killing an Englishman, there was of|fered for his life by other strangers 500 crownes, but all that would not staie iustice.] On fridaie the same 26 of October, those honest men that had béene of Throckmortons quest, being in number eight (for the other foure were deliuered out of prison, for that they submitted themselues, and said they had offen|ded like weakelings, not considering truth to be truth,Eight of ma|ster Throck|mortons [...] appéere in th [...] starchamber but of force for feare said so) these eight men I saie (whereof maister Emanuell Lucar and maister Whetston were chéefe) were called before the coun|cell in the Starrechamber, where they affirmed that they had doone all things in that matter according to their knowledge, and with good consciences, euen as they should answer before GOD at the daie of iudgement. Where maister Lucar said openlie be|fore all the lords that they had doone in the matter like honest men, and true and faithfull subiects: and therefore they humblie be sought my lord chancellor and the other lords, to be meanes to the king and quéenes maiesties, that they might be discharged and set at libertie: and said that they were all con|tented to submit themselues to their maiesties, sa|uing and reseruing their truth, consciences, and ho|nesties.

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