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The cardi|nals hat re|c [...]iued by the Kentish gen|tlemen with great solem|nitie.

Guic. pag. 682. Two elefants presented to the pope.

In the end of Nouember, the cardinals hat was sent into England, which the gentlemen of Kent re|ceiued, and brought to London with such triumph, as though the greatest prince in Europe had béene come to visit the king [much like that of the people at Rome in the yeare 1515, when were séene in the said citie two elephants, a nature of creatures which happilie had not béene séene in Italie since the tri|umphs and publike plaies of the Romans. Emanu|ell king of Portingall sent to pope Leo the tenth a verie honorable ambassage, and withall presented him with these huge and statelie elephants, which his ships had brought by sea from India; their entring into Rome was celebrated with a verie great con|course of people, some woondering at the strange forme and stature of the beasts, some maruelling to what vses their nature inclined them, and some con|iecturing the respects and purposes of such a present, their ignorance making their woonder farre greater than their reason.]