[1] [2] To conclude, his towardlinesse was such in all heroicall vertues, noble gifts, and markable quali|ties conuenient for his princelie estate, that so much was hoped for in his roiall person (if he had liued till triall might haue béene had of the proofe) as was to belooked for in anie one prince that euer had rule ouer this noble realme. ¶ The eight of Iulie, I. Stow. 1 [...]8. K. Edwards death opened. the lord maior of London was sent for to the court, then at Gréenwich, and to bring with him six aldermen, as manie merchants of the Staple, and as manie mer|chant aduenturers, vnto whom by the councell was secretlie declared the death of king Edward, & also whom he had ordeined to the succession of the crowne by his leters patents, to the which they were sworne, and charged to kéepe it secret.] But now to procéed with the dooings that followed. Immediatlie after the death of this so worthie a prince king Edward,Ladie Iane proclamed quéene. the aforesaid ladie Iane was proclamed quéene of this realme by the sound of trumpet, that is to saie, the ninth daie of Iulie, at which proclamation were present the lords of the councell, the maior of Lon|don, with others.