[1] [2] The king cõ|meth to West|minster hall, and there sit|teth in iudge|ment himselfe.On thursdaie the two & twentith daie of Maie, the king came into Westminster hall, for whome at the vpper end was set a cloth of estate, and the place han|ged with arras. With him was the cardinall, the dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke, the earles of Shrewsburie, of Essex, of Wiltshire, & Surrie, with manie lords and other of the kings councell. The ma|ior & aldermen, with all the chiefe of the citie were there in their best liuerie (according as the cardinall had appointed them) by nine of the clocke. Then the king commanded that all the prisoners should bée brought foorth, so that in came the poore yoonglings and old false knaues bound in ropes all along, one af|ter another in their shirts, and euerie one a halter a|bout his necke, to the number of foure hundred men, and eleuen women. And when all were come before the kings presence, the cardinall sore laid to the ma|ior and communalti [...] their negligence, and to the pri|soners he declared that they had deserued death for their offense. Then all the prisoners togither cried; Mercie gratious lord, mercie. Herewith the lords al|togither besought his grace of mercie, at whose sute the king pardoned them all.The kings gratious and generall pardon. Then the cardinall gaue vnto them a good exhortation, to the great gladnesse of the hearers.