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Show ~The Preface. The Preface. Beans Pag feBeaTD Sees But Buckingham lined a while longer ; and witbaneloquent oration perfwaded the Londonersto eleé Richardfor their'king.' And bauing recetued the Earle. dome of Hereford forreward , befides the bigh hope ofmarrying his daughter to the Kings onely fomne; after manygrienous vexations of‘mind, and unfortunate attempts,being m the end betrayed and delinered vp by his truftie/tferuant ; Flee had bis headfenered fromhis body at Salisbuty, without the trouble of ‘any of his Peers.And whatfucceffe had Richard bim/elfafter all he/e mifchiefes ¢ mur- ders policies and counter-policies to (hriftian religion:e> afterfuch time as with amojt mercileffe hand he hadpreffed out the breathofbis Nephews and Naturall Lords,other than the profperity of fofhort a life,as it tooke endere him/elfe could well looke over and difcerneit 3 thegreat out-cry of innocent bloud, obtained at GODS hand; the effufionof bis; who became afpettacle offhame ex difhonour, both to hisfriends and enemies. This cruell King, Henrythe 7 cut off<> thas therin(no doubt) the immediate inflrumentofGodstuftice.Apolitick Prince be was ifener there were any,who by the engine of bis wifdome, beate downe ¢> onerturned as many Strong oppofitions both before ¢x after he worethe C:rowne, as ever King ofEngland did : Ifay by his wifdome,bec rufe as heener left the rains of his affeétios in the hands ofhis profit, Jobe alwaies weighed bis yndertakings by bis abilities , leaning nothing' more to hazzard thanfo much as cannot be denied it in all humane aétions, Ele had well obferued the proceedings ofLoys the 11 whomhe followedin all that was royall or royall-like but be wasfar more iuftex begunnot theirproceffes whom he bated orfeared by the execution, as Loysdid. Fle could nener endure any mediation in rewarding bisfernants, ox therein excceding wife ; forwhat/oener bim/elfe gane,be himfelfe receiued back the thankes e the lone,knowing it wel that the affections ofmen(purchafed by nothin igfored= dily as by benefitswere trains that better became great kings,than great [ubietts. o "3 contrary in what/oenerbe griened bisfubietshe wifelyput it off on thofe, ; at be foundfit miniftersforfuch a&tions:Howfoeuer the taking off of Stanlies be ae fet the Crownon hiseoxthe death ofthe Jongue Earle ofWarwick, fon e corge D.of Clarence, fhews,asthe Jucceffe alo didthat he held fomewhat of the errors of bis Ancefters; for bis polfe/sion in thefirft line ended in his erand-children as that of Edward the Third and Henty'the Fourth had done si Now for King Henry the eightsifallebe pittures and patternes ofa mercileffe Prince were loftin the Worldsthey wightall agdine be painted tothe life ‘nyt of y Stor) ofthis King:Forh 1g ow many {eruants : did i he A 83in haf haft ut a (but for whatBer: ver tne no man could /ufpekt) and withthe change'ofadudce bis fancy ruined ac i ; knowing ng,for what offince? es Tot £0 row many others of more delert i ober aiaz Boa bbaritantt caue heaboundan vy from whenceot to gate flowers cathe "bony: Pony; and'in and it theend ofEZarue/?e burnt beni th the Fine? Howiiany vives didhecUt offc o cafP offas hisfan i cy é> affeBion BiShion chased chaced? Flow thany Princes of the re blowd blond (hereof Capb fome of then Peafor age eee as tonld bardl crawle towardsthe é: blocke) with74 worldof 1 others w h i of YOR all degre PBN) oe i common Chroniclesha dard ne kept balyoeara nenn :pe2 the . eee did ili bee execute? ee a yea,arent imbis very : forthe dboundance ofblowd dlvead ' baiiegliten the bis uccompe to.G 0 D eadyshinsoo piles Fie imiprifoned Diike Norfolke the Patherne executed pha Eurle oF / Sota, be kmew Not howto FS Value PONS aie Earle Of dnireed Stirrey the Haine newer avi fonrhs.. the bite, a whofeweife de/eruines deferitinigs Omitted any thing that concerned bis own ho~ nour, noircathe kings feruicetheather nener haning-comitted.any thing. worthy ofbis leaft displeafurecthe Ongexceeding, paliant,and adui/edsthe othex no.leffe valiant thanlearnedseo of excellent hope:But befides theforxames which. be, heaped »pon the Fatherlef[é to. Wideines atyhame idndbefides.the vaine enterprifesabroad, wherinatisabought thatle-con/umed mone tred/urethan all oar pittorious Kangs did ia their fenerall Cong yefts what caufele[feand-cruell wars did he make coupon his ownNephaw.King lames chespifts What Lames (> Wills did he deuife to eftablifh this Kangdomembis ounesf]uesrscufing bis phaxpest weapons.tocut off, and cut dowrtetho/e\branches,sebich {prangfrom thefame root that himfelfe did. And. inthe end(notwithftandingtbefehisfo.many. trreligsous proutfion, it pleafed God, to take awayiall-his omné,without increafe;thoughfor them/elues intheirfenerall kindés,all Princes of embwentwertues For thefe words ofSamuel to.A gag King ofthe Amalikites bine beene verified upon many others: As thy {word hath made other vvomenichildlefle,ifo fliall, thy mother be childlefle among.o. ther wonteny And that bloud whieh the/ame King Henty affirmed, that.the cold aiveofScatlandhadfrozencupiathe North God hath diffufed bythe funs bine ofbisgrace:from whence His Maichty.nowlining, ¢ long ta line,is de/cens ded. Ofwhou'l mayfay it truly;Ehatufal the malice of tbe world wereinfused into one ciesyet could st-not difcerne inbislifeeuen to this day any oneof thofe foule {pots by whiehthe confciences.of all.theforenamed Princes(in effect)haue binde., filed ;nor any-droppe of that innocent bloudon thefwordof hisinfticewith which the maft thatfore-went hint rane ftained-both their hands and fame. And for this Crowne of England, itanaytruely be anowed: That be hathreceiuedit euenfrom the hand of God, and hath-/taied che time ofputting it on, howfoeuer be wereprouoked to haftenit: Thatbe neuer tookereuenge of any.man,that fought to put him befide it:That be refiifedthea/s:ftance'of Herenemies, that wore it long, with as great gloryas ever Princeffedid: That his Maieltyentred not by a breach, norby bloudsbut by the Ordinary gateswhich bis.owne right fet open.andinto which,by a generalllove.and obedience; Fle was received, And howfoener His Maielties precedingtitleto this .Kingdome, Was perferred by many Princes. (witneffe the Treaty 4p Camibrayinthe yeare 155.9)yet he neuerpleafed to dispute tt,during theliteofthatrenowned Ladyhis Predeceffor; no, notwith/tanding the iniury of not being declared Fléire in-all the timeof Her long raigne. Neither oughtwe to forget pr neglett our thankfulneffe to GODfortheunis ting of the Northen partsofBrittany tothe South,to witjof Scotland to England, which though they werefevered but by {mall brookes and bankes , yet by reafon of the long continued warres and the cruelties exercifed upon each other ,in the afSettionof the Nations they-wereinfinitly fevered. This I (ay is not the leaft of Gods blefSings which His Maiefty hath brought with him vnto this Land: No, putall our petty grienances togetebr,<x heap them-yp to their hight,they will appeare but asa Mole} illcompared with the Mountaineof this.concord, And if all the Hiftorians fnce then baue atknowle deed the cuniting of the Red-Rofe, and the White, for the greate/t happineffe »((hriftian Religion except d) that ener this Kingdome'receitle d from GO D,certainly the peace betweenethe two Lions of gold and gules, and the making themone,doth by many degrees exceed the former; for by tt, befides the Paring of onr britifh blond heretofore and during the difference,fo ofvadantly fhedytheftate of England ts moré Af] ured, the Kingdome more inabled |
