Then the prouost sent to the king a trumpet, desi|ring a safe conduct for him & certeine other to come and to speake with him: which request was to him granted.The prouost with eleuen more submit themselues & yeéld vp the citie to the king. Then the prouost of the citie, accompanied with eleuen with him of the best of the citie, came to the armie, & spake with the lords of the councell, and after were led to the kings presence. The prouost knéeled downe and all his companie, and said:

Right high and mightie prince, although the citie of Tor|naie is strong, well walled, well replenished with people, vittels, artillerie, yea and the people in feare and dread of nothing; yet we know that against your great puissance it can not continue long, although it were ten times as strong as it is. Wherefore we knowing by report your honor, your wisedome, your iustice, & noble hart, are content to become your sub|iects & vassals, so that we may haue and inioy our old lawes, customes, liberties, and franchises, vnder you; as we haue before this doone vnder other princes.

Then said the king; We haue well heard your petition, we will common with our councell & make you answer. And when he had communed with his councell, he answered saieng: Sirs, he that asketh mercie of vs, shall not be denied; and séeing you come to treat, we remit you to our councell. Then they went into the tent of councell, & there the Tor|nasins fell at a point, and in conclusion they yéelded the citie and ten thousand pounds sterling for the re|demption of their liberties, and so departed to the ci|tie, making relation of the king and his noble cou|rage. On thursdaie the nine and twentith daie of September, the king was in his rich tent of cloth of gold vnder his cloth of estate, to whome came the citi|zens of the citie, and were sworne to him, and became his subiects.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then the king appointed the lord Lisle,The [...] taken in the king of Eng|lands behalfe. the lord A|burgauenie, & the lord Willoughbie to take possessi|on, which with six thousand men entered the citie, and tooke the market place and the wals, and searched the houses for feare of treason. Then maister Thomas Woolsie the kings almoner called before him all the citizens yoong and old, and sware them to the king of England, the number whereof was foure score thou|sand. Thus the king of England by conquest came to the possession of the citie of Tornaie. On sundaie the second daie of October, the king entered the citie of Tornaie at port founteine, and foure of the chiefe of the citie ouer him bare a canopie with all the armes of England. Euerie person was in his best apparell, the ladies & gentlewomen laie in the win|dowes beholding the king and his nobilitie, euerie citizen had in his hand a staffe torch. The king him|selfe was richlie apparelled in rich armour on a bar|ded courser, his henchmen bearing his péeces of war, as ax, speare, and other, their coursers were barded with the armes of England, France, Ireland, and o|ther the kings dominions all richlie brodered. Thus the king with his nobilitie all richlie apparelled with his sword borne before him, his heralds and serge|ants of armes with trumpets and minstrelsie ente|red the citie, and came to our ladie church, and there Te Deum was soong.