And then he arose and went into the councell chamber to dinner, the trumpets sounding before, and at dinner he sat in his kirtle, and there accompa|nied him the foresaid ambassador of France, and the said Italian, with diuerse other erles and lords. And after the second course, Garter with the other offi|cers of armes, proclamed the quéenes maiesties stile, and after, the stile of the said earle,The officers fées fiftéene pounds at this creation for the which they had fiftéene pounds, to wit, for his baronie fiue pounds, & for his earledome ten pounds, and Garter had his gowne of blacke veluet garded with thrée gards of the same, laid on with lace, lined through with blacke taffata, and garded on the inner side with the same, and on the sléeues eight and thirtie paire of aglets of gold. The earles stile was as fol|loweth: Du tresnoble & puissant seigneur Robert conte de Leicestre, baron de Denbigh, cheualier du tresnoble ordre de la iarretièrre, & grand esquier de la royne nostre souuereigne. On whole scutchion, conteining sundrie cotes, inui|roned with the cognisances of both orders, as well S. Michaels as S. Georges, with other ornaments, were made these verses, now common to be read:
Quot clypeos atauûm clypeo coniungis in vno, [...]Tot tibi virtutes atauûm sunt pectore iunctae:EEBO page image 1208Somerij pietas, vis imperterrita Greij,Intemerata fides Hastingi, nobile pectusFerrarij, Quinci probitas, bonitásque Boghani,Martia Talbotti virtus, fidissima dextraBeauchampi, Herculei mens inconcussa Guidonis,Barklaei vigor, & generosa modestia Lisli.]
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The second of October in the afternoone, and on the morrow in the sorenoone, was a solemne obse|quie at Paules church in London, for Ferdinando late emperor departed. ¶Of this emperor it is said, that lieng sicke, Ex Schardio. and so sicke that Zichard a precher of his court then present could not hold him vp: how|beit comming at last to himselfe and somewhat in recouerie,Ferdinand foretelleth the verie vtter|most daie of his own death. he said to the standers by; You thought that I would neuer come againe, naie mine houre is not so soone: I doo certeinlie know that I shall not die before Whitsuntide. Now when he had liued till that daie, and eight daies after, as hauing the verie time of his departure told him by secret reuelation, (and satisfied at full touching the request that Dauid made to God about the length of his life, saieng:
he said to them that were about him: It is the holie ghosts pleasure that I should not die before saint Iames tide, that as he was a pilgrime among vs, so I with him should passe my pilgrimage out of this my natiue countrie. After which words spoken, his disease grew to greater force and sharpnesse, inso|much that at last, euen at the verie time prefixed, namelie S. Iames daie, he departed this life, after he had liued sixtie yeares, nine moneths, and od daies. He gouerned the empire aboue the space of seauen yeares,The goodlie [...] male and female that God gaue Ferdinand. & had to wife Anne queene of Hun|garie and Boheme, by whom he had fiftéene children, some male; namelie, Maximilian, Ferdinand, Iohn and Charles: also eleuen females; to wit, Elisabeth married to Sigismund king of Poland, Anne, Ma|rie, Mawdline, Catharine, Elenor, Margarite, Bar|bare, Ursule, Helen, and Ione. He is commended for his carefulnesse, his watchfulnesse, his bountiful|nesse, his gentlenesse, his vprightnesse, his discréet|nesse, his peaceablenesse, and other qualities, wherin he had a kind of singularitie. And thus much of him by waie of praise, as I found it readie to my hand.]Lord let me know mine end and the number of daies, that I may be [...]tified how long I haue to liue. Da mihi nosse meae quae sint stata tempora vitae,Et quando vltima sint fata futura mihi)
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The seauenth of October at night, from eight a clocke till after nine of the clocke,Fierrie im|pressions. all the north parts of the element séemed to be couered with flames of fire, procéeding from the northeast and northwest, to|ward the middest of the firmament, where after it had staied nigh one houre, it descended west: and all the same night (being the next after the change of the moone) seemed nigh as light as it had béene faire daie. Anno Reg. 7. Houses shat|tered with gunpowder. The twentith of Nouember in the morning, through negligence of a maiden with a candell, the snuffe falling in an hundred pounds weight of gun|powder, thrée houses in Bucklersburie were sore shaken, and the maid died two daies after. The one and twentith of December began a frost,The Thames frozen ouer. which con|tinued so extremlie, that on Newyeares euen, peo|ple went ouer and alongst the Thames on the ise from London bridge to Westminster. Some plaied at the football as boldlie there, as if it had béene on the drie land: diuerse of the court being then at Westminster, shot dailie at pricks set vpon the Thames: and the people both men and women went on the Thames in greater numbers, than in anie strèet of the citie of London. On the third daie of Ianuarie at night it began to thaw, and on the fift daie was no ise to be seene betwéene London bridge and Lambeth, which sudden thaw caused great floods and high waters, that bare downe bridges and hou|ses, and drowned manie people in England: especi|allie in Yorkshire,Owes bridge borne downe. Owes bridge was borne awaie with others.