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| 30 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size=-1>The account
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| 31 | at right was written by the Tudor chronicler Edward Hall.</font><p>
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| 32 | <font size="-1">King Henry VIII's third marriage, made when he was almost
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| 33 | forty-five, finally brought him the longed-for son. Edward's mother
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| 34 | was Jane Seymour, the daughter of a Wiltshire knight. She died a
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| 35 | fortnight after his birth in October.</font></p>
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| 42 | <p>On 27 May 1537, Trinity Sunday, there was a <i>Te Deum</i>
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| 43 | sung in St Paul's cathedral for joy at the queen's quickening of her child,
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| 44 | my lord chancellor, lord privy seal and various other lords and bishops
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| 45 | being then present; the mayor and aldermen with the best guilds of the
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| 46 | city being there in their liveries, all giving laud and praise to God for
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| 47 | joy about it. The bishop of Worcester, Dr Latimer, made an oration
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| 48 | before all the lords and commons after the <i>Te Deum</i> was sung, explaining
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| 49 | the reason for their assembly, which oration was marvelously fruitful to
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| 50 | the hearers. And also the same night various great fires were made
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| 51 | in London, with a hogshead of wine at every fire for the poor people to
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| 52 | drink as long as it lasted. I pray Jesus, if it be his will, to send
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