[1] [2] [3] After the archbishop had ended, wishing that it might so come to passe, and the people answered, A|men;The words of the elected king. the king standing on his féet, said vnto the lords and commons there present:

I thanke you my lords both spirituall and temporall, and all the states of this land, and doo you to wit, that it is not my will that any man thinke, that I by the waie of conquest would disherit any man of his heritage, franches, or other rights, that him ought to haue of right, nor to put him out of that which he now inioieth, and hath had before time by custome or good law of this realme, except such priuat persons as haue béene a|gainst the good purpose, and the common profit of the realme.

When he had thus ended, all the shiriffes and other officers were put in their authorities a|gaine, to exercise the same as before, which they could not doo whilest the kings roiall throne was void.