[1] ¶In the moneth of Maie proclamation was made for the inhancing of gold to eight & fortie shillings, Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow. 1029. & siluer foure shillings the ounce. Also the K. caused to be coined base monie,Base monie coined. which was since that time called downe, the fift yeare of Edward the sixt, and called in the second of queene Elizabeth.Irish in war|like manner passe through the citie. In the same moneth also passed through the citie of London in warlike maner, to the number of seauen hundred Irishmen, hauing for their weapons, darts, and handguns, with bagpipes before them: and in saint Iames parke besides Westminster they mustered before the king.Procession in English. In Iune the letanie or procession was set foorth in English, with commandement by the king to be generallie vsed in parish churches.] About the same time that the armie before remem|bred, was set forward into Scotland vnder the gui|ding of the earle of Hertford, as before yée haue heard, the king by aduise of his councell tooke order for the leuieng of a mightie armie, to passe ouer into France,An armie le|uied to inuade France. according to the appointment taken with his confederate, fréend and colleague, the emperour, against the French king, at that present common aduersarie to them both, and not long before had en|tered in league with the Turks, as Ch. Oc. noteth:
—cum dira foedera TurcisIunxerat, heu nimiùm res est indigna relatu,Christicolam facere hoc, qui relligionis amantemSe profitens, titulum pietatis venditat orbi.