[1] Now was this proclamation made within two houres after that he was beheaded, and it was so cu|riouslie indicted, & so faire written in parchment, in so well a set hand, and therewith of it selfe so long a processe, that euerie child might well perceiue that it was prepared before. For all the time, betwéene his death and the proclaming, could scant haue sufficed vnto the bare writing alone, all had it bene but in pa|per, and scribled foorth in hast at aduenture. So that vpon the proclaming thereof, one that was schoole|maister of Powles, of chance standing by, and com|paring the shortnesse of the time with the length of the matter, said vnto them that stood about him; Here is a gaie goodlie cast foule cast awaie for hast. And a merchant answered him, that it was written by pro|phesie.