Of his wife and issue.
KIng Edward had been contracted to Eleanor daughter of Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury, maried after to Sir Thomas Butler Baron of S••dely: but he maried Elizabeth the widdow of Sir Iohn Grey, daughter of Richard Woodvile by his wife Iaqueline Dutchesse of Bedford: she lived his wife eighteene yeeres and eleven moneths; by whom he had three sonnes and seven daughters. Edward his eldest sonne, borne in the Sanctuary at Westminster: Richard his second sonne, borne at Shrewsbury: George his third sonne, borne also at Shrewsbury, but dyed a childe. Elizabeth his eldest daughter, promised in mariage to Charles Dolphin of France; but maried afterward to King Henry th•• Seventh: Cicely his second daughter, pro∣mised in mariage to Iames Duke of ••othsay, Prince of Scotland; but was maried af∣terward to Iohn Viscount Wells, whom she outlived, and was againe re-maried, but by neither husband had any issue: she lyeth buried at Quarena in the Isle of Wight. Anne his third daughter was maried to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke, Earle Mar∣shall, and High Treasurer of England; by whom she had two sonnes, both dying without issue: she lyeth buried at Framingham in Norfolk. Bridget his fourth daugh∣ter, borne at Eltham in Kent, became a Nunne in the Nunnery of Dartford in Kent, which king Edward had founded. Mary his fifth daughter, was promised in mariage to the King of Denmarke, but dyed in the Tower of Greenwich, before it could be solemnized: she lyeth buried at Windsor. Margaret his sixth daughter, dyed an In∣fant. Katherine his seventh daughter, was maried to William Courtney Earle of De∣vo••shire; to whom she bare Lord Henry, who by King Henry the eighth was cre∣ated Marquesse of Exeter.
Concubines he had many, but three specially; and would use to say, that he had three Concubines, who in their severall properties excelled: One, the merriest; an∣other, the wyliest; the third, the holyest harlot in his Realme; as one whom no man could lightly get out of the Church to any place, unlesse it were to his bed; The other two were greater personages than are sit to be named: but the merriest was Shores wife; in whom therefore he tooke speciall pleasure: This woman was borne in London, worshipfully descended. and well maried: but when the King had abused her, anon her husband (as he was an honest man, and did know his good, not pre∣suming to touch a Kings Concubine) left her up to him altogether.
By these he had naturall issue; Arthur sirnamed Plantagenet, (whose mother, as is supposed, was the Lady Elizabeth Lucy) created Viscount Lisle, by King Henry the Eight, at Bridewell in London: And Elizabeth, who was maried to Sir Thomas Lumley knight; to whom she bare Richard, afterward Lord Lumley, from whom the late Lord Lumley did descend.