[1] [2] In this season, although the French king (as was said) was verie loth to h [...]ue warres with England, yet the quéene tangling hir selfe contrarie to pro|mise in hir husbands quarrell, sent a defiance to the French king by Clarenceaux king of armes; who comming to the citie of Remes, where the said king then laie, declared the same vnto him the seuenth of Iune, being the mondaie in Whitsunwéeke. On the which daie, Garter and Norreie king of armes, ac|companied with other heralds, and also with the lord maior and certeine of the aldermen of the citie of London,Quéene Ma|rie proclameth open warres against the French king. by sound of three trumpets that rode before them, proclamed open war against the said French king, first in Cheape side, and after in other parts of the citie, where customarilie such proclamations are made: the shiriffes still riding with the heralds, till they had made an end, although the lord maior brake off in Cheape side, and went to saint Peters to heare seruice, and after to Paules, where (accor|ding to the vsage then) he went on procession. King Philip bicause of the warres towards,King Philip passed ouer in|to Flanders betwixt him and the French king, the sixt of Iulie passed ouer to Calis, and so into Flanders, where on that side the seas he made prouision for those warres: at which time there was great talke among the com|mon people, muttering that the king making small account of the quéene, sought occasions to be absent from hir.