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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The third daie of Februarie,Henrie Stu|art married the quéene of Scots. Henrie Stuart lord Darleie, about the age of ninetéene yeares, eldest sonne to Matthew earle of Lineux (who went into Scotland at Whitsuntide before) hauing obteined licence of the quéenes maiestie, tooke his iourneie to|wards Scotland, accompanied with fiue of his fa|thers men, where when he came, he was honorablie receiued, & lodged in the kings lodgings, and in the summer following, he maried Marie quéen of Scot|land. About this time, for the quéenes maiestie were chosen and sent commissioners to Bruges,Commissio|ners chosen to go to Bruges the lord Montacute knight of the honourable order of the garter, doctor Wotton one of hir maiesties honou|rable councell, doctor Haddon one of the masters of requests to hir highnesse, with others: master doctor Aubreie was for the merchant aduenturers of Eng|land: they came to Bruges in Lent, Anno 1565, and continued there till Michaelmasse following, and then was the diet prolonged till March in the yeare 1566, and the commissioners returned into Eng|land.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The two and twentith of Aprill, the ladie Marga|rite countesse of Lineux,Ladie Lineux sent to the tower. was commanded to kéepe hir chamber at the Whitehall, where she remained till the two and twentith of Iune, and then conueied by sir Francis Knolles and the gard to the tower of London by water. On s. Peters euen at night, was the like standing watch in London,Standing watch at at midsummer in London. as had béene on the same night twelue moneths past. The sixtéenth of Iulie, about nine of the clocke at night began a tem|pest of lightning and thunder, with showers of haile, which continued till three of the clocke in the next morning, so terriblie,Tempest at Chelmesford of lightning thunder and raine. that at Chelmesford in Essex 500 acres of corne was destroied, the glasse win|dowes on the east side of the towne, and of the west and south sides of the church were beaten downe, with the tiles of their houses also, besides diuerse barnes, chimneis, and the battlements of the church, which was ouerthrowne. The like harme was doone in manie other places, as at Leeds, Cranebroke, Douer, &c.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Christopher prince and margraue of Baden,The mar|graue or mar|ques of Badẽ and his wi [...]e great with child come to London. with Cicilie his wife sister to the king of Swethland, af|ter a long and dangerous iournie, wherein they had trauelled almost eleuen months sailing from Stock|holme, crossing the seas ouer into Lifeland, from whence by land they came about by Poland, Prussie, Pomerland, Meckelburgh, Friseland, and so to Ant|werpe in Brabant, then to Calis, at the last in Sep|tember landed at Douer, and the eleuenth daie of the same they came to London, and were lodged at the earle of Bedfords place neere to Iuie bridge, where within foure daies after, that is to saie, the fiftéenth of September she trauelled in childbed,She is deli|uered of a child. and was de|liuered of a man child: which child the last of Sep|tember was christened in the quéenes maiesties chappell of White hall at Westminster, the quéenes maiestie in hir owne person being godmother, the archbishop of Canturburie, and the duke of Norf|folke godfathers. At the christening the quéene gaue the child to name Edwardus Fortunatus: for that God had so gratiouslie assisted his mother,The quéene giueth the name. in so long and dangerous a iournie, and brought hir safe to land in that place, which she most desired, and that in so short time before hir deliuerance.

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