Anno Dom. 1399, September 19, Munday.
Crownes misplaced on vnrightfull heads, are com∣monly lined with perdurable cares and vexation, as appeared in the lines and raignes of Rusus, Henry the first, Stehpen, Iohn; and now this King Henry the fourth, who (though hee were minion of Fortune, the Darling of the peolpe, & euery way a compleate Noble Prince; yet was his vsurpa∣tion still attended with dangerous molestations; he was crowned at Westminster by Thomas Arun∣dell Arbhishop of Canterbury; hee was scarce warme in his seat, before the Dukes of Exeter, Aumerie & Surry, with the Earles of Glocester and Salisbury conspired to kill him, and to raise King Richard againe; but their plot was discouered and satisfied with the losse of there heads. shortly after, king Richard the 2 was starued to death some say murdred) at Pomfret castle. in short time after the Princes of English poets, Ieffry Chaucer and Iohn Cower dyed; all those Noble men, who either fouored king Richard, or were raised by him, were degraded, disinherited, or out of King or courrtly fav∣our. The French in Aquitaine, intend rebellion a∣gainst K. Henry, but are pacified by Tho: Percy, Earle of Worcester. The Welsh rebell (vnder the cōmand of their captine, Owne Glendowre, and the king went thither in person, and with losse and danger quieted them, An. 1403 the terrible battel of Shrewsbury was fought betwixt the King and the Earle of Worcester, the Earle Dowglasse, the Lord Henry Percy (alias) Hotspur, and others, where after a bloody triall, Percy was slain, buried, taken vp againe and quartered: the Earle of Wor∣cester was beheaded, the Dowglasse taken, and the King victorious. Owen Glendowere again raiseth wars in Wales, and inuades the Marches of Eng∣land: & although king Richard the 2 be dead and buried, yet is he still sained to be aliue, and by coun∣terfeit impostures, King Henry was much molested 140 ships came out of France, arriued at Milford hauen, to the aid of Owen Glendowre; the Earle of Northumberland rebelled with the Lord Bar∣dolph, and were both taken & beheaded. Thus was king Henries reigne, a Maiesticall missery, a soue∣raignty of sorrow, and a regall power alwaies attended with perplexity; so that hauing raign'd 13 yeers 6 months wanting 5 daies, he dyed the 20 of March 1413, and leauing 4 sonnes, 2 daughters, he was with all funerall and Royall solemnity interred at Canterbury.