[1] The one and thirtith of August, the quéenes maie|stie in hir progresse came to the vniuersitie of Ox|ford,The quéenes progresse to Oxford. and was of all the students, which had looked for hir comming thither two yeares, so honorablie and ioifullie receiued, as either their loialnesse towards the quéenes maiestie, or the expectation of their fréends did require. Concerning orders in disputa|tions and other academicall exercises, they agréed much with those which the vniuersitie of Cambridge had vsed two yeares before. Comedies also and tra|gedies were plaied in Christs church, where the queenes highnesse lodged. Among the which the co|medie intituled Palemon and Arcit, made by mai|ster Edwards of the quéenes chappell, had such tragi|call successe, as was lamentable.Misfortune at Oxford at the plaieng of a tragedie. For at that time by the fall of a wall and a paire of staires, and great presse of the multitude thrée men were slaine.