Anno. 14.
M
- William Waldren Mercer
[date 1412] S
- Rafe Leu••hind
- William Seue∣noke.
This yere after the great and fortu∣nate chaunces happened to King Hen∣ry, being deliuered of al ciuile diuision
The summarie of English chronicles (lately collected and published) nowe abridged and continued tyl this present moneth of Marche, in the yere of our Lord God. 1566. By J.S.
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- The summarie of English chronicles (lately collected and published) nowe abridged and continued tyl this present moneth of Marche, in the yere of our Lord God. 1566. By J.S.
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- Stow, John, 1525?-1605.
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- Imprinted at London :: in Fletestrete by Thomas Marshe,
- [1566]
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and discentiō, he minded to make a vot age against the infidels, and especially for the recouery of Ierusalem: and for that cause prepared a great army, and gathered muche treasure, entending to set forward in the same spryng. When he had thus prepared al thinges neces∣sary for his voyage: he was taken with an Apoplexie, of the whiche he langui∣shed till his appointed hower. During which sicknes (as autors write (he cau¦sed his Crowne to be set on the pillow at his beds head, and sodenly his pang so sore troubled him, that he laye as all his vital spirits had ben departed: such as had cure of his body, thinkyng him to be dead, couered his face with a lin∣nen clothe. The prince his sonne be∣yng therof aduertised, entred into the Chamber, and toke away with him the crowne and departed, the father beyng sodainly reuiued oute of his traun••e, quickly perceiued yt lack of his croun, and hauing, knowledge that the prince had possessed ▪it, caused him to repayre to his presence, requiringe him for what cause he had so misused him selfe. The prince aunswered, syr to my iud∣gement you semed dead, wherfore I as your next heyre, tooke it as myne, and
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not as yours: well sonne sayd the king what right I had to it, and howe I en∣ioyed it, God knoweth, Well qu••d the Prince, if you dye king, I wyll haue the garlande; and trust to kepe it with the sworde as ye haue done: ••••ll sayd the king, I commit all to God, and re∣member you to do well, and with that turned him selfe, and shortely after de∣parted, in a chamber of the Abbottes of Westminster, called Ierusalem, the xx. day of Marche, in the yere of our lorde. 1412. When he had reigned. 13. yeres, syxe monethes and nyne dayes, and was buried at Cantorbury.