How Taylors came to be of the bloud-Royal.
WHen King Henry the fifth was Prince of Wales, he was a very dissolute Prince, and with a company of Roysters that belonged to him, would oftentimes Rob on the High way; and though for the most part they bore away the prize, yet of∣tentimes they met with stout opposition. It happend one time that they were so hard∣ly matcht, that his party received many blows, and amongst the rest he had some cuts or slashes given him on a doublet he then wore, which for the rarity of it his Father took special notice of: therefore, that it might not be espyed, it was carried to a Taylors to mend: the Taylor having viewed it, and considering it could not be well mended without taking in pieces, threw it unto his Journey-man to un-rip, and he being poor and proud, Taylor-like, scorning such inferiour work as to un-rip, threw it to the under-prentice, who in slash∣ing the seames, chanced to find a Lowse,