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rankle and fester the affections of his people. And 

 therefore being now too wise to disdain perils any 

 longer, and willing to give some contentment in that 

 kind, at least in ceremony, he resolved at last to 

 proceed to the coronation of his queen. And there 

 fore at his coming to London, where he entered in 

 state, and in a kind of triumph, and celebrated his 

 victory with two days of devotion, for the first day 

 he repaired to Paul s, and had the hymn of &quot; Te 

 &amp;lt; Deum&quot; sung, and the morrow after he went in 

 procession, and heard the sermon at the cross, the 

 queen was with great solemnity crowned at West 

 minster, the five and twentieth of November, in the 

 third year of his reign, which was about two years 

 after the marriage ; like an old christening,, that had 

 stayed long for godfathers. Which strange and 

 unusual distance of time made it subject to every 

 man s note, that it was an act against his stomach, 

 and put upon him by necessity and reason of state. 

 Soon after, to shew that it was now fair weather 

 again, and that the imprisonment of Thomas, Marquis 

 Dorset, was rather upon suspicion of the time than 

 of the man, he, the said marquis, was set at liberty 

 without examination or other circumstance. At 

 that time also the king sent an ambassador unto 

 Pope Innocent, signifying unto him this his marriage ; 

 and that now, like another ./Eneas, he had passed 

 through the floods of his former troubles and 

 travels, and was arrived unto a safe haven: and 

 thanking his holiness that he had honoured the cele 

 bration of his marriage with the presence of his 



