[1] [2] [3] [4] Now after this, at the seruing vp of the wafers the lord maior of London went to the cupboord,The lord maior of Lon|don serueth the quéene of ipocrasse. and filling a cup of gold with ipocrasse, bare it to the quéene: and knéeling before hir tooke the assaie, and she receiuing it of him, and drinking of it, gaue the cup with the couer vnto the said lord maior for his fée, which cup and couer weied sixtéene ounces Troie weight. Finallie, this feast being celebrated with all roiall ceremonies, and high solemnities, due and in like cases accustomed, tooke end with great ioy and contentation to all the beholders. On wed|nesdaie the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie the parle|ment began,A parlement. the queenes maiestie riding in hir par|lement robes, from hir palace of Whitehall, vnto the abbeie church of Westminster, with the lords spi|rituall and temporall, attending hir likewise in their parlement robes. Doctor Cox sometime schoole|maister to king Edward the sixt, and now latelie returned from the parties of beyond the seas, where during the daies of quéene Marie he had liued as a banished man, Iohn Stow. preached now before the estates there assembled in the beginning of the said parlement. In this parlement,The first fruits and tenths resto|red to the crowne. the first fruits and tenths were restored to the crowne, & also the supreame gouern|ment ouer the state ecclesiasticall, which queene Ma|rie had giuen to the pope. Likewise the booke of common praier and administration of the sacra|ments in our mother toong was restored.