Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After which sentence thus openlie declared, the said estates admitted foorthwith the forenamed commis|sioners for their procurators, to resigne and yeeld vp vnto king Richard, all their homage and fealtie, which in times past they had made and owght vnto him, and also for to declare vnto him (if need were) all things before doone that concerned the purpose and cause of his deposing: the which resignation was respited till the morow following. Immediatlie as the sentence was in this wise passed, and that by rea|son thereof the realme stood void without head or go|uernour for the time, the duke of Lancaster rising from the place where before he sate, and standing where all those in the house might behold him, in re|uerend manner made a signe of the crosse on his for|head, and likewise on his brest, and after silence by an officer commanded, said vnto the people there be|ing present, these words following.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After these words thus by him vttered, he returned and sate him downe in the place where before he had sitten. Then the lords hauing heard and well percei|ued this claime thus made by this noble man, ech of them asked of other what they thought therein. At length, after a little pausing or staie made, the archbi|shop of Canturburie hauing notice of the minds of the lords,The demand of the archbi|shop of Can|turburie to the commons. stood vp & asked the commons if they would assent to the lords, which in their minds thought the claime of the duke made, to be rightfull and necessa|rie for the wealth of the realme and them all: whereto the commons with one voice cried, Yea, yea, yea. Af|ter which answer, the said archbishop going to the duke, and knéeling downe before him on his knée, addressed to him all his purpose in few words. Thom. Wals. The duke of Hereford pla|ced in the re|gall throne. The which when he had ended, he rose, & taking the duke by the right hand, led him vnto the kings seate, the archbishop of Yorke assisting him, and with great EEBO page image 506 reuerence set him therein, after that the duke had first vpon his knées made his praier in deuout man|ner vnto almightie God. When he was thus placed in his throne to the great reioising of the people, the archbishop of Canturburie began a breefe collation,The archbi|shop preached. taking for his theme these words, written in the first booke of kings the ninth chapter; Vir dominabitur in po|pulo, &c: handling the same, & the whole tenour of his tale to the praise of the king, whose setled iudgement, grounded wisedome, perfect reason, and ripe discre|tion was such (said he) as declared him to be no child, neither in yeares, nor in light conditions, but a man able and méete for the gouernement of a realme: so that there was no small cause of comfort ministred to them through the fauourable goodnesse of almigh|tie God, which had prouided them of such a gouernor, as like a discréet iudge shall déeme in causes by skil|full doomes, and rule his subiects in vpright equitie, setting apart all wilfull pleasures, and childish incon|stancie. This is a summarie of his oration. But be|cause the qualitie of this volume is such, as that it hath set foorth matters at large: I will laie downe the archbishops words, as they are recorded by Fa|bian in ample manner as followeth.