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Edward the sixt, sonne and successor to Henrie the eight.

[1] _AFter it had pleased al|mightie God to call to his mercie that famous prince king Henrie the eight, the parlement as yet continuing, and now by his death dissolued, the executours of the said king, and other of the no|bilitie, assembling them|selues togither, [...]. Edward proclamed. did first by sound of trumpet in the palace of Westminster, and so through London, cause his sonne and heire prince Edward to be pro|clamed king of this realme by the name of Edward the sixt, king of England, France, and Ireland, de|fender of the faith, and of the churches of England and Ireland the supreame head, he being yet but nine yeares and od moneths of age: he was thus pro|clamed the eight and twentith of Ianuarie, in the yeare of the world 5513, and after the birth of our Lord 1547, according to the accompt of them that begin the yeare at Christmasse; but after the accompt of the church of England, in the yeare 1546, about the nine and twentith yeare of the emperor Charles the fift, the three and thirtith of Francis the first of that name king of France, and in the fift yeare of the reigne of Marie quéene of Scotland.