[1] Upon the sixtéenth day of Iune, the kings eldest sonne named Edward,The birth of king Edward the first. and after surnamed Long|shanke by the Scots in mockage, bicause he was a tall and slender man, was borne at Westminster, who after his fathers decease, succeeded him in the kingdome. ¶Before the birth of this Edward, there appeared earlie in the morning certeine daies togi|ther before the sunne was vp, Polydor. A strange star. a star of a large com|passe, the which with swift course was caried through a long circuit of the aire, sometimes shewing as it had borne fire with it, and sometimes leauing as it were smoke behind it, so that it was after iudged, that the great déeds which were to be atchiued by the same Edward, were by this wonderfull constellati|on foreshewed and signified.