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Show BUNUG L T8 LOAT™ forowe, what trouble hathe within thefe fewe yeare growe in this realme 1 praye Godd as we for geate as wee wel remember ‘Whiche thinges yfI coulde as wel haue forefene as I haue with my more payne then pleafure proued by Goddes blefled Ladie (that was euer his othe 1 woulde neuer haue won the courtefye of menne knees, with the lofle of foo many heades. But fithe thynges paffed cannot be gaine called, muche ought wee the more beware, by what occafion we hau taken foe greate hurte afore, that we eftefoones fal not in that occafion agayne. Nowe be thofe griefe pafled; and all is (Godde be thanked) quiete, an likelie righte wel to profper in wealthfull peac voder youre cofeyns my children, if Godde fen them life and you loue. Of whiche twoo thinges the leffe lofle wer they by whome thoughe Godd dydde hys pleafure, yet fhoulde the realme alwa finde kinges and paraduenture as good kinges. Bu yf you among youre felfe in"a childes reygne fall a debate, many a good man fhall perith and happel he to, and ye to, ere thys land finde peace again Wherfore in thefe lafte wordes that euer I looke t fpeake with you: I exhort you and require you al for the loue that you haue euer borne to me, fo the love thatI haue euer borne to you, for thelou that our Lord beareth to vs all, from this time for f puk i it | rcfpf warde, all grieues fergotten, eche of you lou other. Whiche I verelye trufte you will, if ye an thing earthly regard, either Godde or your king affinitie or kinred, this realme, your owne countrey, or your owne furety. And therewithal th king no longer enduring to fitte vp, laide hi down on his right fide, his face towarde them: an none was there prefent that coulde refrain fro weping. But the lordes recomforting him with a good 'wordes as they could, and anfwering for th time as thei thought to ftand with his pleafure there in his prefence (as by their wordes appered eche forgaue other, and ioyned their hands together, when (as it after appeared by their dedes their hearts wer far a fonder As fone as the kin was departed, the noble prince his fonne drew to fyté ward London, which:at the time of his deceafe fou kept his houthold at Ludlow in Wales Whic gt - countrey being far of from the law and recourfe t deu iuftice, was begon to be farre oute of good wyl and waxen wild, robbers and rivers walking at libertie vncorrected And for this encheafon th GU counfayle E Adioyned wer there vnto him other o the fame partie and in effe& euery one as he wa hc them nereft of kin vnto the quene, fo was planted next about the prince That drifte by the quene no vowifely deuifed, whereby her bloode mighte o youth be rooted in the princes fawor, the duke o Gloucefler turned vnto their deftruccion, and vpo that grounde fet the foundacion of all his vnhapp building. For whom {oeuer he perceived, eithe at variance with them, or bearing himfelf their fauor brak vnt fo b mouth fo b writing and fecret meflengers, that it neyther wa reafon nor in any wife to be fuffered, that the yon king their mafter and kinfmanne, fhoold be¢ in th handes and cuftodye of his mothers kinred, fequeftred in maner from theyr compani, and attendance, of which eueri one ought him as faithful fervice as they, and manye of them far mor honorable part of kin then his mothers fide whofe blood (quod he) fauing the kinge pleafure was ful vhmetely to be matched with his: which nowe to be as who fay remoued from the kyng and the leffe noble to be left aboute him, is (quo he) neither honorable to hys mageftie, nor vnt vs, and alfo to his grace no furety to haue th mightieft of his frendes from him, and vnto vs n little ieopardy, to fuffer our welproued euil willers to grow in ouergret authoritie with the prince i youth, namely which is lighte of beliefe and fon perfwaded Ye remember I trow king Edwar him{elf, albeit he was a manne of age and of dif crecion, yet was he in manye thynges ruled by th bende mor the ftode either with his honour o our profite, or with the commoditie of any mann els, except onely the immoderate aduauncement o them felfe 'Whiche whither they forer thirlte after their owne weale wene to gefle An or our woe it wer harde if fome folkes frendfhip ha not holden better place with the king, then any re fpect of kinred, thei might peraduenture eafil haue be trapped and brought to confufion fomm of vs ere this. Why not as eafily as they hau don fome othe alreadye as necre of his roya bloode as we But our Lord hath wrought his wil and thanke be to his grace that peril is pafte. How be it as great is growing yf wee fuffer this yong kyng in oure enemyes hande, whiche without hi wytryng, might abufe the name of his commaundements, to ani of our vndoing, which thyng Go -and good prouifion forbyd. Of which good proui' the ende that the authoritie of his prefence, fhould fion none of vs hath any thing the leffe nede, fo - refraine euill difpofed parfons fro the boldnes of the late made attonemente, in whiche the kinge pleafure hadde more place then the parties willes their formar outerages, to the gouernaunce and or.dering of this yong prince at his fending thyther, Nor none of vs 1 beleue is fo vawyfe, ouerfone t - prince was in the life of his fathe was the,.. appointed Sir Anthon fente thither t Woduile lor ~ Rivers and brother vnto the quene, a right honourable man, as valiaunte of hande as politike i Vor. L truft new frend mad of a olde foe, or t think that an houerly kindnes, fodainely contralt i on hour continued, yet fcant a fortnight fhol b |