In this yeare king Edward required great sums of monie to be lent him. The citizens of London granted him fiue thousand marks, which were seized of the fiue and twentie wards: which fiue thousand EEBO page image 705 marks was trulie repaid againe in the next yeare following. ¶Also this yeare on Whitsundaie K. Ed|ward the fourth created the lord Berkleie, vicount Berkeleie, at Gréenewich. ¶ In this yeare also an house on London bridge called the common siege, [...] temporam. or priuie, fell downe into the Thames, where thorough it fiue persons were drowned. ¶This yeare the king with his quéene kept a roiall Christmas at Windsor.

Also this yéere was one Richard Chawrie ma|ior of London,The king [...]ea| [...]te [...]h the ma|ior and alder|men. whome king Edward so greatlie fauoured, that he tooke him (with certeine of his bre|thren the aldermen, & commons of the citie of Lon|don) into the forrest of Waltham, where was ordei|ned for them a pleasant lodge of gréene boughs, in which lodge they dined with great chéere; & the king would not go to dinner vntill he saw them serued. Moreouer he caused the lord chamberlaine, with o|ther lords, to cheere the said maior and his companie sundrie times whilest they were at dinner. After din|ner they went a hunting with the king, and slue ma|nie deare, as well red as fallow, whereof the king gaue vnto the maior and his companie good plentie, and sent vnto the ladie mairesse and hir sisters the al|dermens wiues, two harts, sir bucks, and a tun of wine to make them merrie with, which was eaten in the drapers hall. The cause of which bountie thus shewed by the king, Fabian pag. [...]12. was (as most men did take) for that the maior was a merchant of woonderous ad|uentures into manie and sundrie countries. By rea|son whereof, the king had yearelie of him notable summes of monie for his customes, beside other plea|sures that he had shewed vnto the king before times. ¶ This yéere the Scots began to stir, against whom the king sent the duke of Glocester & manie others, which returned againe without any notable battell.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Ambassadors [...]oorth of Scotland.In this verie season Iames the third of that name king of Scots sent into England a solemne ambas|sage for to haue the ladie Cicilie, king Edwards se|cond daughter, to be married to his eldest sonne Iames, prince of Scotland, duke of Rothsaie, and earle of Caricke. King Edward and his councell, perceiuing that this affinitie should be both honou|rable and profitable to the realme, did not onelie grant to his desire; but also before hand disbursed cer|teine summes of monie, to the onelie intent that the marriage hereafter should neither be hindered nor broken. With this condition, that if the said mariage by anie accidentall meane should in time to come take none effect; or that king Edward would notifie to the king of Scots, or his councell, that his plea|sure was determined to haue the said marriage dis|solued: then the prouost and merchants of the towne of Edenburgh, should be bound for repaiment of the said summes againe. All which things were with great deliberation concluded, passed, and sealed, in hope of continuall peace and indissoluble amitie.