fliU&m of the Indus, lib.?. 



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* ordered the fcrvice offji 

 OMtftht wambcem&ltforhis 

 coronAtion. CM A. 21 



HE thatin-his election made fuch fliew of hutoilitie 

 andmildenes., feeing himfelfeking, begannepre- 

 fently to difcoverhis afpiring thoughts , Thcfirft was, 

 he eommaunded that no plebeian fli^uld fervein his 

 houie, nor .beare any roy all office, as his prcdeceffotjrs 

 had vfcd till then; blaming them that would-be ferved 

 by men of bafe condition, commaunding thataH the 

 noble and moft famous men of his realise (lioulde live 

 within his pallace, atid exercile the oifices/of his court, 

 and houfe. Wherevnto an olde ntan of great authoritic 

 (who had fometimes beene his Schoalcn^iifter) oppo- 

 fedhimfelfc adviling him, tote carefutl what hecdid, 

 and not to rfmift himelfe intathe danger o a great in 

 convenience, in (eparating himfelfe from the vulgare 

 and common people, fo as they fliould not dare to 

 looke him in the face, feeing themfelves fo rejected by 

 him, He anfvvered, that it was his refolucioft^ and that 

 he \yould not allow the plebeians to goc thus mingkd 

 among t]ic Nobles, as they had doone 5 faying,fehat the 

 fervice they did, was according to their condition ,-fo 

 as the kings got no reputation, and thus he continued 

 firme in his refolution. Hee prefently commanded his * 

 counfeiltpdifmifle all the plebeians from their char 

 ges and offices, as well thofe of his houfliold as of his- 

 court, and to .provide Knightes, the which was done.*- 

 After he went in^erfbn to an ^nterprife ncceffiry for 

 his coronation. At tt|attic|ie a province lying farre off 

 towards ihe Horth Ocean, was revoked from the 



crownc, 



