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 THE

COMICAL

HISTORY

OE THE

King and the Cobler.

CHAP. I.

''How King Henry VIII. used to visit the'' Watches in the City, and how he became acquainted with a merry jovial Cobler.

It was the custom of King Henry the Eighth to walk late in the night into the city disguised, to observe and take notice how the constables and watch performed their duty, not only in guarding the city gates, but also in                         diligently watching the inner parts of                          the city, that so they might, in a great measure, prevent those disturbances and casualties, which too often happen in great and populous cities in the night; and this he did oftentimes,