His Issue.
(72) Arthur the eldest sonne of King Henrie the seauenth and of Queene Elizabeth his wife was borne at Winchester the twentith day of Septem∣ber, the yeere of Grace, one thousand foure hun∣dred eighty sixe, and the second of his Fathers raigne. In whose fifth yeere he was created Prince of Wales; Duke of Cornewall and Earle of Chester, and at the age of fifteene yeeres, one month and twenty fiue daies, vpon the foureteenth of No∣uember, in the yeere of our Lord, one thousand fiue hundred and one, espoused the Lady Katherine daughter to Ferdinando King of Spaine, shee being then about eighteene yeeres of age, in the Cathe∣drall Church of Saint Paul, London; and present∣ly sent into Wales the better to gouerne that princi∣pality by his owne Presence, enioyed his marriage bed onely foure moneths and ninteene daies, de∣parting this life at Ludlow the second of Aprill, the yeere of our Lord, one thousand fiue hundred and two, of his Fathers raigne seuenteene, and of his owne age fifteene yeeres, sixe moneths and thir∣teene daies. His body with all due funerall so∣lemnities, was buried in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Maries in Worcester, where, in the South side of the Quire he remaineth entombed in Touch, or Iette, without any remembrance of him by picture.
(73) Henrie the second sonne of King Henrie the seuenth and of Queene Elizabeth was borne at Greenwich in the Countie of Kent, the two and twentieth of Iune, in the yeere of Grace, one thou∣sand foure hundred ninety and one, being the se∣uenth of his Fathers raigne. In his Infancy he was created Duke of Yorke and Marshall of England, and so trained vp in his youth to literature as hee was rightly accounted the best learned Prince in Europe, and by the death of his brother succee∣ded his Father in all his Dominions; whose Raigne and Acts are presently to be related.
(74) Edmund the third sonne of King Henry and of Queene Elizabeth, was borne in the yeere of Christ, one thousand foure hundred ninetie fiue, and in his young yeeres was created Duke of Sommerset, which Title hee no long time enioyed, being taken away by death at Bishops Hatfield be∣fore hee attained fully to fiue yeeres of age, the yeere of Grace, one thousand foure hundred nine∣tie and fiue, and fifteenth of his Fathers Raigne, and his body lieth interred at Saint Peters in West∣minster.
(75) Margaret the eldest daughter of King Henrie and of Lady Elizabeth his Queene, was born the nine and twentieth day of Nouember the yeere of Christ 1489. and fifth of her fathers raigne; shee at the age of foureteene was married vnto Iames the fourth King of Scotland, the yeere of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred and three, vnto whom shee bare Iames the fifth, Arthur and Alexander and a Daughter: which last three, died all of them young; and after the death of King Iames (being slaine at Flodden Field in fight against the Eng∣glish,) shee was remarried vnto Archibald Douglas Earle of Anguisse, in the yeere of our Lord, one thousand fiue hundred and foureteene, vnto whom shee bare Margaret, afterward espoused vnto Ma∣thew Earle of Lennox, Father by her of the Lord Henrie, who died at the age of nine moneths, and lyeth interred in the vpper ende of the Chancell in the Parish Church of Stepney neere London, vpon whose Graue is engrauen in brasse, as followeth:
Her second sonne was Henrie Lord Dernley a Noble Prince; and reputed for person one of the goodliestHeere lieth Henry Steward Lord Darle of the age of three quarters of a yeere, late Sonne and Heire of Mathew Steward Earle of Lennoux and Lady Margaret his wife, which Henrie deceased the XXV III. day of Nouember in the yeere of our Lord God. 1545. Whose Soule Iesus perdon.