The King, then abydeng stille in the seide Priory, upon Mich'as even
sent the clerke of his closet to the Churche of Sent Michel to make
redy ther hys clossette, seying that the Kynge on Mich'as day wolde
go on p'cession and also her ther hygh masse. The Meyre and his
counsell, remembering him in this mater, specially avast hem to pray
the Bishop of Winchester to say hygh masse afore the Kynge. The
Bishop so to do agreed withe alle hys here; and, Aegean the Kynge
coming to Sent Michel Churche, the Meyre and his Peres, cladode in
scarlet gowns, wanton unto the Kynge Chamber durra, ther abydeng the
Kynge coming. The Meyre then and his Peres, doing to the Kynge due
obeisance ... toke his maze and here it afore the Kynge all his said
bredurn goeng afore the Meyre til he com to Sent Michels and brought
the Kynge to his closette. Then the seyde Bishop, in his pontificals
arayde, with all the prestes and clerkes of the seyde Churche and of
Bablake, withe copes apareld, wanton in p'cession abowte the
churchyarde; the Kynge devowtely, with many odur lordes, followed
the seyd p'cession bare-hedded, cladode in a gowne of gold tissu,
furred with a furre of marturn sabull; the Meyre bereng the maze
afore the Kynge as he didde afore, tille he com Aegean to his
closette. Att the whyche masse when the Kynge had offered and his
lordes also, he sende the lorde Bemond, his chamburlen, to the
Meyre, seying to him, "hit is the Kynge wille that ye and your
bredurn com and offer;" and so they didde; and when masse was don,
the Meyre and his Peres brought on the Kynge to his chambur in lyke
wyse as they fet hym, save only that the Meyre with his maze went
afore the Kynge till he com withe in his chambur, his seyd bredurn
abydeng atte the chambur durra till the Meyre cam ageyne. And at
evensong tyme the same day, the Kynge, ... sende the seyde gowne and
furre that he were when he went in p'cession, and gaf hit frely to
God and to Sent Michell, insomuch that non of the that broughte the