[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Immediatlie after hir death, in the wéeke before Whitsuntide, the king married the ladie Iane Sei|mer,The king ma|rieth ladie Iane Seimer daughter to sir Iohn Seimer knight, which at Whitsuntide was openlie shewed as quéene. And on the tuesdaie in Whitsunwéeke, hir brother sir Edw. Seimer was created vicount Beauchampe, and sir Water Hungerford, lord Hungerford. The eight of Iune began the parlement,A parlement during the which the lord Thomas Howard, without the kings assent, affied the ladie Margaret Duglas daughter to the quéene of Scots, and neece to the king,The lord Th. Howard at|teinted of treason. for which act he was atteinted of treason, and an act made for like offen|dors, and so he died in the tower, and she remained long there as prisoner. In the time of this parlement the bishops and all the cleargie of the realme held a solemne conuocation at Paules church in London, where after much disputation and debating of mat|ters, they published a booke of religion,A booke pub|lished concer|ning religio [...] by the king. intituled Ar|ticles deuised by the kings highnesse, &c. In this booke is speciallie mentioned but thrée sacraments. Also beside this booke certeine iniunctions were gi|uen foorth, wherby a number of their holie daies were abrogated, & speciallie those that fell in haruest time. ¶ The nine & twentith of Iune, I. Stow. Triumph at Westminster the king held a great iusting and triumph at Westminster, where were or|deined two lighters made like ships to fight vpon the water, one of the which brake in the midst, wherby one Gates a gentleman, & seruant to M. Kn [...]net was drowned in his harnesse. In the other a gun brake hir chamber, & maimed two of the mariners.] Thomas Cromwell secretarie vnto the king, and [page 941] maister of the rols, was made lord kéeper of the pri|uie seale, and the ninth of Iulie the lord Fitzwaren was created erle of Bath,Ad [...]unce| [...]t of the [...] Crom|well. and the morrow after the said lord Cromwell was created lord Cromwell. The eightéenth of Iulie he was made knight, and vi|car generall vnder the king ouer the spiritualtie, and sat diuerse times in the conuocation amongst the bi|shops as head ouer them. The two and twentith of Iulie,The death of the kings base sonne. Henrie duke of Richmont and Summerset, earle of Northampton, base sonne to the king, begot of the ladie Tailebois then called Elizabeth Blunt, departed this life at saint Iames, and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke, of whome you shall find more in the treatise of the dukes of this land.