In this yeare the king kept his Christmasse at Greenewich, where was such abundance of viands serued to all comers of anie honest behauiour, Abr. Fl. ex Ed. Hall in Hen. 8 fol. xv. Christmasse pastimes or delights at Gréenwich. as hath béene few times séene. And against Newyéeres night was made in the hall a castell, gates, towers, and dungeon, garnished with artillerie and weapon after the most warlike fashion: and on the front of the castell, was written Le forteresse dangereux, and within the castell were six ladies, cloathed in russet sattin, laid all ouer with leaues of gold, and euerie one knit with laces of blew silke and gold. On their heads, coifs, and caps all of gold. After this castell had béene caried about the hall, and the quéene had beheld it, in came the king with fiue other, apparel|led in coats, the one halfe of russet sattin, spangled with spangles of fine gold, the other halfe of rich cloth of gold, on their heads caps of russet sattin, embro|dered with works of fine gold bullion.

These six assaulted the castell. The ladies seeing them so lustie and couragious,The king & fiue other as|saile the ca|stell. were content to solace with them, & vpon further communication, to yéeld the castell and so they came downe & dansed a long space. And after the ladies led the knights into the ca|stell, and then the castell suddenlie vanished out of their sights. On the daie of the Epiphanie at night, the king with eleuen other were disguised, after the maner of Italie,Maskers dis|guised after the Italian fashion. called a maske, a thing not seene be|fore in England: they were apparelled in garments long and broad, wrought all with gold, with visors and caps of gold. And after the banket doone, these maskers came in, with six gentlemen disguised in silke, bearing staffe torches, and desired the ladies to danse; some were content, and some refused. And af|ter they had dansed, and communed togither, as the fashion of the maske is, they tooke their leaue and de|parted, and so did the quéene, and all the ladies.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The fiue and twentith daie of Ianuarie began the parlement,A parlement. The summe of the bishop of Canturbu|ries oration in the parle|ment. where the bishop of Canturburie began his oration with this verse Iustitia & pax osculatae sunt. Upon which words he declared how iustice should be ministred, and peace should be nourished, and by what meanes iustice was put by, and peace turned into warre. And therevpon he shewed how the French king would doo no iustice in restoring to the king his right inheritance: wherfore for lacke of iustice, peace of necessitie must be turned into warre. In this par|lement was granted two fiftéens of the temporaltie, and of the clergie two tenths. After that it was con|cluded by the whole bodie of the realme in the high court of parlement assembled, that warre should be made on the French king and his dominions. Wher|vpon was woonderfull spéed made in preparing all things necessarie both for sea and land.