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Show The Preface. The Preface, - rie mn any things afconspiracies rebellions: heyfaw(iffoulesimimortallfeces difcern e Prince,fudter the bodies deatby his Grand-cbilde Henrythe fixt,eo- bis Sonth bad tlt alla nn a Arid this was the end ofthatfubttltyywbich Sixacides cl sirac15 Beggar... aftarke come fine lech but varighteous:for other fruit hath it nener yeeldedfznce the world (for which hee denly ¢ without mercy murdered.the poffe{sion ofthe Cro wne Iffues : was. And now it came to Edvward thefourths turn(though after many difficulties)to triumphs, For all the plants ofLancafter were rooted vp,one only Earle of Rich- onleffe,by behad left nolelfe power-le/fe,than thefneceffion ofthe Kingdom quefti ne entailing thefame vpon his owne Iffues byParliament. And ont of doubt, huma veafoncowld Whe ttidged no otherwi/e,but tharthefe cantiows prouifions ofthe fa- mondexcepted: whom alfo be bad once boughtof the Duke of Brittain, but could the caufed Jo mich blovillro be povired out) transferredfrombis race, & by that pofed hefup ice praét own his by eswhom of bis enemies worn & enioyd:enemi ther.fecorded by the valour & fignall coiétories ofbisfon Henrythefift, had bu- ried the hopes of euery (ompetitor, onderthe despaire ofall reconqueft and reco- uery.1faythat buinane reafon mightfohane indged: were not this paffage of Ca- fanbon al/o true; Dies,hora,momentum, euertendis dominationibusfufficitqui adamancinis credebantut radicibuseflefundate,A day,an houre, a'moment,is enoughto ouerturne the things, that {eemed to haue beene founded and rooted in' Adamant. Nowfor Henry the /ixee,vpon whom'thegreatform ofbis Grand-fathersgriedois faults fell,as itfornierly bad done vpow Richard the Grand-childe of Edward: although he was generally efteemedforagentle ex innocent Prince, yet as he'vefufed the daughter ofArmaignac,of the Houfe ofNauarre, the greateft of the Princes ofFrance,to whom he was affianced (by which match hee might haue defended his inberitancein France) married the daughter ofAniou,( by which he loft all that he bad in France). fo in condefcending to the unworthy death of his Vncle of Glocefter,the maine andtrong Pillar ofthe houfe ofLancafter, He drew on bimfelfe ex this kingdom the ereateft ioynt-loffe ex difbonoursthat as Siftained fince the Norrtan congueft Ofwhom it may truly be faid which a Coun- fellor ofbis own/pake of Henry the third ofFrance, Quil eftoit vne fort gétile Prince; mais fon reigneeft'aduenu envne fortmauucistemps 7, That hee Wras |4 very Gentle Pritice; but his reigne happened in a verie vnfortunate feafoais oes a : "i | It is the thatBiickitigham'¢ Suffolkewere theprattifers and contriners of the Dukes det hBuekiagham & Suffolkesbecaufethe Duke ane inftruttions to thetrdit bority Sohich orherwife vader the Queenehadbeen abjolure,the Queene in PeEpeet of b er per/onall wotnid,fpretequeinintia fortnz, becaufe Glocefter diffivaded her tiarviageButthefruit was anfwerable tothefeed;thefuccef tothe otin[ailes For after the sutting downe of Gloceftery» YorkeSrewcopfofalt,as ate iimain his rightboth by arguments (> armes vin whi chquarrell Sufs et ony7 as issnam re thegreate/tmumberoftheir adberentswere diffolTih Yorke: ough for bis breach ofOath by Sacrament, it pleafed God to-ftrike ~ or e pre hisfon the‘ Earleof March; following the plaine parh-whichbis Pad trodtenont defpoiled Henry the Fatherand Rdwardthe fon; both of their lives and Kingdome. And what was the end now of that politiqu be Queerieother than this, Thurfhelined tobeBold the nha dateroretakers:thatphe linedto looke on,while her Flushandthe King cx ber onely fon the 4a hewenin funder, while the (+owne was fet on his bead that. did it? : hee om :feehér felfedifpoited ofber Eftate,andofber moueab les : and la/tly, Per fatherby rendering $ an dp to the Crowne ofFrance the\Earledome of.Prouenct , otherplaces,for the payment offifty thousand crownesfor ber Ranfometo be> come not hold him.Andyet was not this of Edward fuch a Plantation,as could any way promifeitfelfe ftability.. For this Edward the King (to omit moré thanmany of his other cruelties beheld and allowed the flaughter which Gloucefter, Dorfet; Haltings, and others,made of Eduard the Princein bis owne prefence : of which tragicall Abtors there was not one that efcaped the indgement of GOD in the fame kinde. And Ele,which (befides the execution of his brother Clarence,for noneotheroffence thanhe himfelfe hadformed in his own imagination)inftru tted Gloucefter ro kill Henry the fixt, his Predeceffour ; taught bimalfo by thefame Art to kill his owne fons.and fucceffors;Edvvard and Richard. For thofe Kings which hauefold the bioud of others at a low rate;haue-but made the market for their owne enemies,to buy oftheirs at the fame price. To Edward the Fourth fucceeded Richard the Third, the greate/t Mafter in mifchiefe of all thatforeswent him : who although,for the nece/sity of Ins Trage- dy, he had moreparts to play, and more to performein his owne perfon, than all the reft , yet hefo wellfitted euery affection that plaid with him, asifeachofthem had but aéked bis owneintere/t. Lor be wroughtfo cunningly ypon the affections of Haftings and Buckingham enemies to the Queene,andto all her kindred , as he cafily allured themtocondefcend,tbat.Riuersand.Grey,.the Kings MaternallVncle and halfe brother, should for thesfirft) be feneredfrom him : fecondly, bee. wrought their \confent 29 have them tmpre(aned sand la(tly (for the.auot- ding of future inconuenience) ta haue.theirhendsfeneredfrom their bodies. And hauing now brought thofe his chiefe gaftruments.to exercife that commion. pr'e~ sectera feces ends, cept yabiehthe Deull.bath writtenon euery poftnamely, To depreffe thofe ww bom.tibus Sen.declem, they hadgrieued, and to\deftroy thofe whom they bad depreft ; Hee urged that fofar andfoforcisly; as nuthing but,tire deathofthe yongue king himargument TZ a i > . = : felfe,ea.of bis brothercould fafhion the conclufion, For bee canfed st to be hamme- redinto Buckinghams head, That, whenfoener-the King or his Brother , fhould haye ableyeeres.to exercife their, pomersthe) wouldtake a moft feuere revengeof thar cureleffe wrong, offeredto their Vncle and BrotherRivers and Grey. But this, was yt bis, manner of reafoning, with Haltings, whofe fidelity, to his Masters Sonneswas without {ufpect: andyet the Dinellwho neuer diffwades by impofibilicy taught himto try. bim,And fo he.did But when hefaund by Catesby who, founded bim,that be was not fordable;kdefirrefolued to.kill bemfitting an conncell: wherein hauingfailed with bisfwords Flee fet, the Elangman upon him, with aweaponofmore weight And becaufe nothing elfe could mone bis appex tite, Hecanfed bis bead to beftricken off before, hee gate bis dinner,...4 greater indgement.afGod, than this copon Haftings Isbane nener obferued in any, flories For the, felfe Jame day that the Farle Riners, Grey; and,othersy, vere, (with out triallof,. Law 5 Or. offence giuen) by Haftings aduice executed at, Rom- fret. Ifay Haftings him/elfe inthe fame day,(asd take it),in the (ame bourne; inthefame laiw-lefJe manner, had his head[tricken.off in the Tomer of Londen. But |