[1] [2] _AFter the death of the noble prince Henrie the sea|uenth, his sonne Henrie the eight began his reigne the two and twen|tith daie of Aprill in the yeare of the world 5475, after the birth of our sa|uiour 1509,1509 Anno Reg. 1. and in the eightéenth yeare of his age, in the sixtéenth yeare of Maximilian then being emperour, in the eleuenth yeare of Lewes the twelfe that then reigned in France, and in the twentith yeare of king Iames the fourth as then ruling ouer the Scots. Whose stile was proclamed by the sound of a trumpet in the citie of London,Henrie the [...]ight procla| [...] king. the thrée and twentith daie of the said moneth, with much gladnesse and reioising of the people. And the same daie he departed from his ma|nou [...] of Richmond, to the Tower of London, where he remained closelie and secret with his councell, till the funerals of his father were finished.