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CHAP. VI. King Henry the Second
WAs Crowned at Westminster the se∣venteenth of December 1155. Being a greater Prince than any of his Auncestours, and not inferior to any in Christendome in his time. For he had England, Normandy and Anjou in his own Right; and in the Right of his Wife, the Dutchy of Guyen and Earldom of Poictou: At his first coming to the Crown, he made Choice of Wise and Discreet Councellors, banisht Strangers, reformed Abuses of the Laws, and made many excellent Regulations to heal the Bo∣dy Politick of those Distempers and Fra∣ctures which the late Wars had occasi∣oned.
He had married Eleanor late Wife to Lew∣is the seventh of France, but by reason of their nearness of Blood from him divorced; with this Lewis he had some Differences ta∣ken up at last by a Peace, to render which more firm he matcht his eldest Son Henry not seven Years old to Margaret the French Kings Daughter scarce three.