DUring the cruel rage of the late mortall warres within the realm of England, when the most vertuous and godly King Henrie the sixt with Queene Margaret his wife, the Kings daughter of Ierusalem and Scicile, & their only sonne Edward Prince of Wales, were forced to flie the land: and the king himselfe after∣ward in the same ciuil tu∣mult falling into the blo∣dy hands of his deadly e∣nemies his own subiects, was of them cōmitted to prisō, where he a lōg time remained in strait captiui¦ty, the Quéen & the prince her son thus banished out of their country, making their abode in the Duchy of Berrie, a dominiō of the foresaid king of Ierusalē.
De laudibus legum Angliæ writen by Sir Iohn Fortescue L. Ch. Iustice, and after L. Chancellor to K. Henry VI. Hereto are ioind the two Summes of Sir Ralph de Hengham L. Ch. Iustice to K. Edward I. commonly calld Hengham magna, and Hengham parua. Neuer before publisht. Notes both on Fortescue and Hengham are added
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- De laudibus legum Angliæ writen by Sir Iohn Fortescue L. Ch. Iustice, and after L. Chancellor to K. Henry VI. Hereto are ioind the two Summes of Sir Ralph de Hengham L. Ch. Iustice to K. Edward I. commonly calld Hengham magna, and Hengham parua. Neuer before publisht. Notes both on Fortescue and Hengham are added
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- Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394?-1476?
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- M.DC.XVI [1616]
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"De laudibus legum Angliæ writen by Sir Iohn Fortescue L. Ch. Iustice, and after L. Chancellor to K. Henry VI. Hereto are ioind the two Summes of Sir Ralph de Hengham L. Ch. Iustice to K. Edward I. commonly calld Hengham magna, and Hengham parua. Neuer before publisht. Notes both on Fortescue and Hengham are added." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01083.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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The Prince shortly after growing to mās state, ap∣plied himself wholy to the feates of armes, much de∣lighting to ride vpō wilde & vnbrokē horses, not spa∣ring with spurs to break their fiercenes. He practi∣sed also sometimes with the pike, sometimes with the sword, & other warlik weapons after the maner and guise of warriors ac∣cording to the vse of mar∣tiall discipline, to assaile and strike his compani∣ons, I meane the young men that attended vppon his person. Which thing when a certaine ancient knight, being Chancellor to the foresaide king of England saw, who also in the miserable time did there remaine in exile hee spake thus to the Prince.