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ARTHUR PLANTAGENET Viscount Lisle, natural Son to King Edward the Fourth, and (which is the greatest honour to his Memory) direct Ancestor, in the fifth Degree, to the Right Honourable, & most Renowned Lord General GEORGE MONK, was for a fault of his Servants (intending to betray Calis to the King of France) committed to the Tower by King Hen∣ry the eight, where well knowing the fu∣ry
and fiercenesse of that King he dai∣ly expected death.
But the innocence of this Lord ap∣pearing after much search, the King sent him a rich Ring off his own Finger, with so comfortable words, that at the hearing therof, a sudden joy * 1.1 overcharg∣ed his heart, whereof he dyed that night; so fatal was not onely the anger, but the love of that King.
England for this many years hath bin in a languishing condition, whose case hath been so much the sadder, than this Lords was, because conscious of a great guilt, whereby she hath justly incurred Gods displeasure. If God of his good∣nesse should be pleased to restore her to his favour, may he also give her mo∣deration safely to digest and concoct her own happinesse, that she may not runne from one Extreame to another, and excessive joy prove more destru∣ctive unto her, then grief hath been hi∣therto.
Speed. Chron. pag 692.