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where the king then lay, were garnished with the 

 citizens, standing in their liveries. And the morrow 

 after, being Allhallows-day, the king, attended with 

 many of his prelates, nobles, and principal courtiers, 

 went in procession to Pauls, and the cap and sword 

 were borne before him. And after the procession, 

 the king himself remaining seated in the quire, the 

 lord archbishop, upon the greece of the quire, made 

 a long oration ; setting forth the greatness and 

 eminency of that honour which the pope, in these 

 ornaments and ensigns of benediction, had done the 

 king ; and how rarely, and upon what high deserts 

 they used to be bestowed : and then recited the 

 king s principal acts and merits, which had made him 

 appear worthy, in the eyes of his holiness of this 

 great honour. 



All this while the rebellion of Cornwall, whereof 

 we have spoken, seemed to have no relation to Per- 

 kin ; save that perhaps Perkin s proclamation had 

 stricken upon the right vein, in promising to lay 

 down exactions and payments, and so had made 

 them now and then have a kind thought on Perkin. 

 But now these bubbles by much stirring began to 

 meet, as they use to do upon the top of water. The 

 king s lenity, by that time the Cornish rebels, who 

 were taken and pardoned, and, as it was said, many 

 of them sold by them that had taken them, for twelve 

 pence and two shillings a piece, were come down into 

 their country, had rather emboldeneh them than re 

 claimed them ; insomuch as they stuck not to say to 

 their neighbours and countrymen, that the king did 



