[1] The duke laie with his people in the suburbs, and euerie daie when they went to the parlement house at Westminster, both parts went thither in armour, to the great terror of those that were wise and graue personages,The lords sit in armour in the parlement house. fearing some mischiefe to fall foorth of that vnaccustomed manner of their going armed to the parlement house, contrarie to the ancient vsage of the realme. At length, to quiet the parties and to auoid such inconueniences,The K. ma|keth an agrée|mẽt betwéene the duke of Lancaster & the earle of Northum|berland. as might haue growen of their dissention, the king tooke the matter into his hands, and so they were made fréends, to the end that some good might be doone in that parlement, for refor|mation of things touching the state of the realme, for which cause it was especiallie called: but now af|ter it had continued a long time, and few things at all concluded, newes came that the ladie Anne sister to the emperour Wenslaus, & affianced wife to the king of England, was come to Calis, whervpon the parlement was proroged till after Christmas, that in the meane time the marriage might be solemnized, which was appointed after the Epiphanie: and foorth|with great preparation was made to receiue the bride, that she might be conueied with all honor vn|to the kings presence.