The chronicle of Iohn Hardyng. Containing an account of public transactions from the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward the Fourth. Together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty fourth year of King Henry the Eighth. The former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time; the last, with Grafton's duplicate edition. To which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index, by Henry Ellis.

The. CC.x. Chapiter.

¶ The wordes that the kynge sayde at hys deathe of hyghe complaynt, but nought of repentaūce of vsurpement of the realme, ne of the restorement of ryght heyres to the crowne.

"O Lorde, he sayde, O God omnipotent, Nowe se I well thy godhede loueth me, That suffred neuer my foes to haue theyr entent Of myne persone in myne aduersite, Ne in myne sycknesse, [ne in myne] [nor.] infyrmyte; But ay haste kepte it fro theyr maleuolence, And chastysed me by thy beneuolence.

¶ Lorde I thanke the with all my herte, With all my soule and my spirytes clere, This wormes mete, this caryon full [foule.] vnquerte, [Fol. CC.vii.] That some tyme thought in worlde it had no pere, This face so foule that leprous doth apere, That here afore I haue had suche a pryde To purtraye ofte in many place full wyde:

¶ Of which ryght nowe y^e porest of this lande, Except only of theyr benignyte, Wolde loth to looke vpon I vnderstande, Of whiche, good Lorde, that thou so visyte me, A thousande tymes the Lorde in Trinyte, With all my herte I thanke the, and cōmende Into thyne handes my soule withouten ende."

¶ And dyed so in fayth and hole creaunce, At Cauntorbury buryed with greate reuerence, As a kyng shulde be w^t all kynde of circumstaūce, According vnto [with.] his hye magnifycence, Besyde the prynce Edward, with great expence, Of Christ was then a. M. yere full oute, Four hundreth eke and thirtene oute of doubte.

¶ O very God, what torment had this kyng, [The conceyte of the maker.] To remember in bryef and shorte entent, Some in his sherte put ofte tyme venemyng, And some in meate and drinke great poysonment; Some in his hose by great ymagenement, Some in bedstraw yrōs sharpe groūd [wel] & whet, Enuenemed sore to slee him [if he had] on them set.

¶ Some made for hym diuers enchauntmentes, To waste hym oute and vtterly destroye,

And some gaue hym batayle full felonement In felde within his realme hym for to noye; And on them selfes the hurte and all [the] anoye, Ay fell at ende that honged were and heded [hede.] As traytours ought to bene in euery stede.

¶ This kyng dyed of his reygne in the yere Fourtene, [accompted of] [accounte in.] Marche y^e. xix. daye, The Sondaye was then by [by the.] kalendre; Of whome the realme great ioye at first had ay, But afterwarde they loued not his araye: At his begynnyng full hye he was cōmende With cōmons then, & also [as.] lytell at the ende.