(*) The next daie the protector with a great traine went to Westminster hall, &there when he had placed himselfe in the court of the Kings bench, declared tothe audience, that he would take vpon him the crowne in that place there, where theking himselfe sitteth and ministreth the law, bicause he considered that it was thechiefest dutie of a king to minister the lawes. Then with as pleasant an oration as hecould, he went about to win vnto him the nobles, the merchants, the artificers, and inconclusion all kind of men, but especiallie the lawiers of this realme. And finallieto the intent that no man should hate him for feare, and that his deceitfull clemenciemight get him the good will of the people, when he had declared the discommoditiesof discord, & the cōmodities of concord & vnitie, he made an open proclamation, thathe did put out of his mind all enimities, and that he there did openlie pardon alloffenses committed against him.
And to the intent that he might shew a proofe therof, he commanded that one Fog,whom he had long deadlie hated, should be brought then before him, who beingbrought out of the sanctuarie (for thither had he fled for feare of him) in the sight of thepeople he tooke him by the hand. Which thing the common people reioised at, andpraised, but wise men tooke it for a vanitie. In his returne homeward, whome soeuer he met, he saluted. For a mind that knoweth it selfe guiltie, is in a mannerdeiected to a seruile flatterie [which refuseth no dutifulnesse, tend the same to neuerso hie a degrée of indignitie; which one noteth, saieng:
When he had begun his reigne in the moneth of Iune, after this mockish election,then was he crowned king in the verie same moneth. And that solemnitie was furnished,for the most part, with the selfe same prouision that was appointed for the coronationof his nephue. (*) But here to shew the manner of his coronation, as thesame is inserted in this pamphlet of sir Thomas More, by maister Edward Hall andRichard Grafton (although not found in the same pamphlet) thus we find it by themreported. (*) First, to be sure of all enimies (as he thought) he sent for fiue thousandmen of the north against his coronation, which came vp euill apparelled, and worseharnessed, in rustie harnesse, neither defensible, nor scowred to the sale, which musteredin Finsburie field to the great disdaine of the lookers on. [By which beginningappéered to the world that he had his state in suspicion, otherwise he would nothaue procured such a power to be attendant at his commandment, and that at suchtime as (all weapons laid aside) peace and tranquillitie should haue béene sought afterfor the comforts of the peoples minds, & the safetie of his owne person; but beingverie mistrustfull & fraught with carefull thoughts, he was in a maze betwéene hopeand feare, according to this verie true saieng: