[1] The sixt day of Aprill this present yeare, the nobles of the realme assembled in the cathedrall church of S. Paule in London, where the maior of the same citie, his brethren the aldermen, and the craftesmen in their liueries also assembled: Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 866. to whome doctor Morton chancellor made an oration, declaring how the king of Spaine had woone the great and rich citie & coun|trie of Granado from the Turks: for ioy whereof Te Deum was soong with great solemnitie. ¶ But bi|cause it is requisite and necessarie in this ample vo|lume, Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall, in Hen. 7. fo. xxii [...] &c. to set downe the report of accidents as they are to be found at large in our owne English wri|ters:Granado woone from the Turkes or Sarac [...]. you shall heare for the furtherance of your knowledge in this matter concerning Granado, what Ed. Hall hath left noted in his chronicle. Which although it conteine diuerse actions of superstition, and popish trumperie: yet should it not offend the reader, considering that a people estranged from the true knowledge of God and sincere religion put the same in practise, as supposing principall holinesse to consist in that blind deuotion.