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Thi•• tongue which first denounc'd my regall state.
RIchard the second, at the resignation of the crowne to the duke of Herford, in the Tower of London, deliuering the same with his owne hand, there confessed his disabilitie to gouerne, vtterly denouncing all kingly authoritie.
And left'st great Burbon for thy love to me.
Before the Princesse Isabell was maried to the king, Lewes duke of Burbon sued to have had her in marriage, which was thought he had obtained, if this motion had not fallen out in the meane time; This Duke of Burbon sued againe to have received her at her comming into France, after the imprisonment of king Richard but King Charles her Father then crost him as before, and gave her to Charles sonne to the Duke of Orleans.
When Herford had his judgement of exile.
When the combate should have beene at Couentrie, betwixt Henrie Duke of Herford, and Thomas Duke of Norfolke; where Herford, was adiudged to banishment for ten yeares, the com∣mons exceedingly lamented, so greatly was he ever favored of the people.
Then being forc'd t'abridge his banisht yeeres.
When the Duke came to take his leave of the King; beeing then at Eltham, the King to please the Commons, rather then for any love he bare to Herford, repleaded foure yeares of his ba∣nishment.
Whilest Henry boasts of our atchieuements done,
Henry the eldest Sonne to Iohn Duke of Lancaster, at the first Earle of Darby, then created Duke of Herford, after the death of the Duke Iohn his father, was Duke of Lancaster and Hereford, Earle of Darby, Leicester, and Lincolne; and after he had obtai∣ned the Crowne, was called by the name of Bullingbrooke, which is a towne in Lincolneshire, as vsually all the Kings of England bare the name of the places where they were borne.
Seauen goodly syens in their spring did flourish.
Edward the third had seuen sonnes, Edward Prince of Wales, after called the blacke Prince, William of Hatfield the second, Lio∣nell Duke of Clarence the third, Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lanca∣ster the fourth, Edmund of Langley Duke of York the fifth, Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Gloster the sixth, William of Winsore the seuenth.
Edward the top-branch of that golden tree.
Truly boasting himselfe to be the eldest Sonne of Edward the blacke Prince.
Yet after Edward, Iohn the yongst of three.
As disabling Henry Bullingbrooke, being but the son of the fourth brother: William and Lionell being both before Iohn of Gaunt.
That leading Kings from France, returned home,
Edward the blacke Prince, taking Iohn king of France prisoner, at the battel of Poicters, brought him into England, where at the Sauoy he died.
Whose name atchieued by his fatall hand,
Called the Blacke Prince, not so much of his complexion, as of the famous battell he fought, as is shewed before: in the glosse vpon the Epistle of Edward to the Countesse of Salisbury.
And prooues our Actes of Parlement vniust.
In the text parlement, after Richards resignation of the crown, Henry caused to be annihilated all the lawes made in the Parlia∣ment, called the wicked Parliament, held in the twenty yeere of king Richards raigne.