the first chapter of his commentaries maketh mention of Olyuer de La Marche to haue been a great cause of the warres betweene king Lewes the .xi. and the Count of Charoloys afterwardes called Charles the hardy which sheweth that he was a man of no small honour and dignitie Nothing so miserable as the man that lyueth careles of his estate The passage of death kept by two Champions Accident and Debilitie Author The fayre feeldes of worldly pleasure Yll Diet his propertie and parentage Yll diet encountreth the author in the playne of wâ—rldly pleasure The maner of their fight The author is foyled by Yll diet and succoured by Reliquia Iuuentutis Yll diet presenteth him with a cappe Reliquia iuuentutis doth abandon him The author amidds his wandring lighteth vpon the mantion of vnderstanding Reason the seate or mantion of vnderstanding The ende of true wisedome and vnderstanding whereto directed Accident alwayes ready to entrappe and bereaue life Good gouernment a sure defence against all casualties The surest preseruatiue against the violence of Accident The sleepes of true vnderstanding are secure Vnderstanding doth here represent vnto the author the infinite wayes and weapons wherwith Accident assayleth mankind and to make him haue the more apprehension therof doth lay before him the calamitous ends of sundry worthy personages perishing in diuers sortes sheweth him the wepons wherwith Accident bereaued them of their liues Cain the first manslear Sampson Deianeira Hercules Iulius Caesar stabbed with daggers Alexander the great poysoned by Antipater Hector slaine with a speare by Achilles Achilles slaine by Par is with an arrow Pompey beheaded by the commandement of young Ptolomee Hannibal poysoned out of a ring Agamemnon murthered by Aegistus by his wiues consent Holofernes slaine by Iudith with a Cimitarre Syzara slaine by Iabel with a nayle Etheocles and Polinices slaine with mutuall woundes of eithers Lance. Abner stabbed by Ioab Golyas slaine by Dauid with a sling and a stone Aman strangled with a halter Sundrie princes bereaued of their liues euen in the middest of their sweetest pleasures The playne of tyme. The nature thereof Desire hardly restrayned Heere the Author encountreth age and striueth mightyly to keepe him off but neuerthelesse in the end he is constrained to yeelde quietly vnto him Age striketh him with his sworde of many yeeres He yeeldeth vnwillingly to Age. Age enioyneth the authour to the accomplishment of some thinges vppon peine of periurie and dotage Loue. Mariage Amorous dssportes Courtly life The miserable estate of him that pursueth in court Nothing more rife in the court of Princes then veruous men honorlesse and vnregarded The vertuous man desireth aduancement onely thereby to be able to do his prince and countrie seruice Age presents the author with a siluer Gorget of maile He entrethinto the pathe of deceite Abusion the porter of loues pallace The pallace of Loue. The desert of olde Age. The Ilande of Decrepitude Sundry abusers of Age deceyuers of them selues Good Aduenture I take it that by this studie he meaneth Contemplation The Pallace of contemplation Memorie Ladie of the pallace of Contemplation Memorie is a thing celestiall and diuine deriued onely from God without hauing any relation to nature Diligence the porter of Memorie The attyre of Memorie The vniuersal sepulchre of mankinde The Churchyarde of Memorie All degrees alike to death Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat Feare befitteth not a noble minde Letters of gold engrauen in afaire table at the entry of the forest of Atropos The maner and attyre of Atropos Debilitie entreth the listes Philip surnamed the good Duke of Burgundie Accedent presenteth him selfe armed Charles Duke of Burgundie surnamed the hardie The Duke three times ouerthrowen by the D. of Lorayne and Swyssers and lastly slaine at the battaile of Naneie in the yeere 1476. Campobache an Italian Counte chiefe leader of the D. horse and of especial credite about him had agreed with the D. of Loraine to betray his maister which most Iudas-lyke he performed at this battell before Nancie The vayne instabilitie of the worldes iudgemne The surest anker is to trust onely in God Mary onely daughter and heire to Charles D. of burgundy and wise to the Archduke Maximilian who was afterwardes Emperour The Author offereth combat to the champion of Atropos The messenger or poursuiuant of Atropos called Sommons The combats of fiue famous aduenturers Sommons doth reueale vnto the Author the Secrets of the Destinies wonderfully among the rest foretelling the greatnesse of Queene Elizabeths glorie The Lady Isabell sister to Henrie the 4. of Castile and wife to Ferdinand of Aragon granmother to Charles the fifth In what sorte shee shal come to combat with death Philip sonne to Maximilian the Emperour and father to Charles the fifth His vertues Ferdinande K. of Spayne Aragon Naples and Sicilie Maximilian of Austria Emperour of the Romanes Great Henry king of England commeth to encounter the Champions of Atropos Paulus Giouius Martin de Bellay in his commentariâ—s writeth that K. Henrie the eight gaue the French K. towards his ransome 500000. crownes whiche the Emperour did owe him for not marying the Lady Marie accorning to couenantes betweene them and withall a Fleuredelice of golde vpon which Henrie the .7 had lent to Philip father to Charls the .5 50000. crownes at his being in Englande Moreouer whereas he had lent Charles 400000. crownes for which he should haue had the townes of Ayr S. Homer in gage he gaue vnto the French K. al those writings for it was one article of his fidelitie that he should pay al these sums vnto K. Henrie the. 8. King Edward the. 6. Queene Marie The prophesie of the Destenies coÌ„cerning Elizabeth the Queene of England Neuer Prince more blessed in her subiects Neuer subiects more blessed in their Prince He returneth to the mansioÌ„ of Memorie He is there visited by Vnderstanding Wherein consisteth the height of wisedome Death often striketh without warning Nothing so vncertaine as the houre of a mans death And therfore nothing so behouefull as to be alwayes in a redinesse What Armes are fit to encounter death withall Good workes done by others after a mans death nothing at al auailable Padrino in Spanish signifieth him that goeth with his freende into the feelde or doth accompany him vnto a iust or torney with meaning to defende him from wrong It signifieth also a Godfather AVTHOR How a man should exercise himselfe afore he commeth to the combat Who are the best maisters of Fence to instruct him that prepareth to fight this combat AVTHOR The miserable estate of a man dying The vertuous Champions othe The othe of the aduersary Iudge of the combat The blessed Sacrament of Christ his supper AVTHOR The best is to be euer redie The first vant-currors or messengers that sommon vs to this combat The ende of the bodie is corruption The Author alwayes vsed this Posie Cain Genesis Chap. 4. Sampson Iudges Cap. 16. Ouid. Seneca Centaures were young men in the time of Ixyon K. of Thessalia who being the first that tamed horses did vpon their backes many great exployts to the wonder of the bordering people who iudged them their horses to haue bin all of one peece thervpoÌ„ grew this fiction Plutarcb Appian Lucan Alexander Quintus Curtius Plutarch Appianus de rebus gestis Alexandri Homer Dares Ouid. Hector Achilles Pompey the great Plutarch Appian Lucan Anniball Plutarch Appian Titus Liuius Clytemnestra Agamemnon Quid. Eteocles and Polinices Princes of Thebes Sophocles Statius The two daughters were Antigone and Ismene Holofernes Iudith Chap. 12 13. Sisera Iudges Cap. 4. Abner 2. Sam. cap. 3. Goliath 1. Samuel Cap. 17. Haman Ester Cap. 3. Chronic. de Nicol. Gallis Michael Eisinger This was that Duke Philip whom the author serued and of whom he speaketh in this Treatise Chron. de Nicol. Gallis Philipp de Comines Michael Eisinger Charles the hardie Philip de Comines Michael Eisinger Nicol. Gallis The horrible treason of Campobache Marie daughter and heyre to Charles duke of Burgundy Philip de Comines 1578. Eisinger 1482. Isabell and Ferdenand Chronic. de Espania Fray Gonçalo de Yllescas Philip de Comines Philip of Austria Fray Gonçalo de Illescas 1506. Chronic. de Espania Michael Eisinger Surìus 1506. 1526. Maximilian Surius Gonçalo de Yllescas Michael Eisinger Henrie the eight Queene Elizabeth
ouer the whole Realme that the very mechanical people abandoned ouer to sorow ceassed their trades for the space of fourtie dayes filling the ayre with pittifull cries and lamentations They had also foure daughters Isabel Ione Mary and Katherine Isabel died yong Ione was married to Philippe brother to the foresayd Lady Margaret and Katherine to Arthur prince of Wales eldest sonne to Henry the seuenth of England Queene Isabel after that by many noble and heroicall deedes she had ouer the whole world won vnto her selfe a reputation to bee one of the most vertuous and excellent princesses that euer liued in the fiue fiftieth yeere of her age ended her dayes at Medina del campo the .xxiiij. of Nouember in the yeere 1504. Twelue yeeres after died Ferdinand her Husband at a litle Vilage named Madrigalecio hard by Gaudalupe A Prince as of singular integritie and vertue so of a rare and wonderfull felicitie and happines in whatsoeuer he did vndertake Philip sonne to Maximilian and Mary being in Flaunders hearing of the death of Isabel Queene of Castile whose eldest daughter he had maried departed presently thence towards Spayne with his wyfe the Ladie Ione to take possession of the Crowne and Royaltie which at their arriuall was willingly by olde Ferdinand to them resigned Philip being now but .xxiiii. yeeres of age was with a firme constitution of body wel proportioned and beautiful and especially aboue the rest so courteous and affable in his speeches and behauiour that what with his beautie and his vertue he drue the eyes and loues of all men to him in so much that the Spanish Nobilitie and Courtiers forsaking Ferdinand who thirtie yeeres had been their King all folowed the rising sonne of young Philip so that the Court of Ferdinand was altogeather solitarie and vnfrequented no one of the Nobilitie keeping him companie saue onely the Duke of Alua who neuer did abandon him with which inconstancie of theirs he growing into an exceeding dislike and with all not pleased with his Sonne-in-lawes behauiour which by reason of whisperers that went betweene was not so kinde louing and reuerent as he expected taking with him his approued seruant the Duke of Alua he went without delay to Arragon and thence to Naples But scarsely was his backe turned when young Philip liuing in as great delitiousnesse honor and triumph as either the delight of a Crowne the pleasure of that Countrey or the dutifull loue of his Subiectes could yeelde him fell extreamely sicke of a violent hot burning Feuer of which notwithstanding the lustinesse and strength of his young floorishing yeeres he died at Burgos the .xxv. day of September in the verie yeere of his entry into Spaine Neuer Prince left behinde him a nobler issue for he had by his wife the Lady Ione two sonnes and foure daughters of which the least was adorned with a royall Diademe viz. Charles who besides his great succession of many Kingdomes and Prouinces was elected Emperour of the Romans 2. Ferdinande who after his brothers death succeeded him in the Empire and was besides created King of Hungarie 3. Leonore maried first to Emanuel King of Portugale and after in seconde mariage to Francis the French King 4. Marie maried to Lewes King of Hungarie who in a battaile against the Turkes died young and without issue 5. Katherine maried to Iohn the thirde King of Portugale and lastly Isabel maried to Christerne King of Denmarke Maximilian sonne to Fredericke the Emperour thirde of that name and Leonore daughter to Edwarde king of Portugale was in his fathers time made king of the Romanes and after his deceasse Emperour He was a Prince exceedingly well learned iust in gouernment at home and fortunate in Warre abrode He had sundry victories against Mathias Corunis King of Hungarie from whom he recouered Vienna and many other of the Prouinces of the lower Austria Likewise he recouered from the French King the Earldome of Artoys and many townes of Burgundie and ouerthrew a great Armie of his at Guignet whereby he recouered Cambray He ouerthrew harde by Regensberg in a memorable battaile a great Armie of the Bohemians that came to make warre vpon his brother in lawe Albert Duke of Bauaria He was with K. Henrie the. 8. at the siege of Terowan and receyued his wages during which siege he him selfe in honor of England ware the Rose and his men the S. Georges crosse He was an exceeding scourge vnto the Venetiās from whom when they were in the fulnesse of their glory he tooke Padwa Verona Vincentia and the greatest parte of Foro Iulio and lastly ouerthrew them in a notable battaile by Vincentia where he slue of them 5000. Taking 24. great Cannons and all their Enseignes and Standards from them In seconde mariage he tooke Blanca daughter to the Duke of Milan Finally in the. 59. yeere of his age he died in Austria some say by taking or rather mistaking a wrong Potion to preuent a sickenesse which he feared He lieth buried at Newstad in Austria 8. leagues from Vienna He left behinde him 2. children Philip whose historie you heard before and Margaret who beeing by her first husband Iohn prince of Castile left a widow was afterward maried to Philibert Duke of Sauoy It is written of Maximilian that in his sickenesse he would not suffer those that were about him to honor him with any title of dignitie but to call him simply by his name Maximilian protesting himselfe to be but a vile peece of Earth and Clay made of no better mettall then the poorest begger The last combat spoken of in this treatise is of Henrie the eyght of famous memory Whose noble and heroicall deeds being so fresh in the remembrance of all men I thinke it needlesse to make repetition of them neither if I woulde vndertake it were the labour of so high a taske in any proportion conuenient to the feeblenesse of my slender force Much lesse to speake of her Maiestie whose Princely name is lastly therein mentioned but will leaue the glorious storie of her happie reigne to those golden pennes that being dipped in the licour of the Muses may like Ariosto his siluer Swannes with a cleere flight beare vp her sacred name and in dispite of Time fasten the same to the faire pillars of Eternitie in the highest turret of the house of Fame That which I can do is to pray vnto the euerliuing Righteousnesse that as he hath with admirable goodlinesse made her shine in giftes both of body and minde aboue all the Princes of her time so he will preserue her vnto vs many long and flowrishing yeeres For so long as wee shall enioy this our precious and sacred Palladium we shall neede to feare neither the force of fierce threatning Agamemnon nor the wiles offals vndermining Sinon FINIS I haue in the margent of euerie Historie noted the names of those Authors which herein I do chiefly folow Philip de Comines in
amazement and feare that presently quitting the place he shal with haste repayre vnto the Pauilion of Atropos laying before her with a wylde and affrighted gesture the great danger of her selfe and her estate yf presently she did not take better order for the resistance of this puissant arriuing enemie As for me shal he say I am not able to beare the stroke of so vnresistable a force for how can I alone but feare him whom so many mightie Kings vnited and the most warlike nations of the worlde did so dreadfully redoubt This is he of whom the Destenies haue so often tolde you that with such an ouergreatnesse should commaund the worlde Great Maximilian Emperour of the Romane Monarchie shoulde serue him in his warres and to do him both honour and homage shoulde with the Englysh Rose adorne his Imperial diademe Iames the most puissant valourous King of warlike Scotlande should with the ouerthrow of his royal assembled Armie the slaughter of his innumerable Subiectes the death of his greatest Peeres the losse of al his honorable Enseignes Artillarie and Munitions and finally with his owne liues losse yeelding him at Floddon a most famous and memorable victorie satisfie his royall indignation so iustly conceyued at the disloyaltie of so neare a beloued kinsman freend The inuading French should with the feareful noyse of his onely approching name drowne them selues in the Southerne Seas Great Frauncis whom French hystoriographers and not vnworthely shoulde cal their Achilles should so feare the fortune of this inuincible Prince that he shoulde suffer him to range with his Armie ouer his Countrey vnfought withal to put sundry of his Townes to the sacke and lastly to returne victoriously vncontrolled Charles the fifth then whom since Charlemayne there neuer lyued a more worthy and heroycall Emperour though highly offended with him for his Auntes diuorsment yet should be so farre from daring to reuenge it notwithstanding the greatnesse of his Empire and many Kingdomes that he shoulde at length instantly desire his freendshyp yea and sue for it with mighty presents and great pensions to such great Lordes as shoulde in those dayes beare sway about him Charles of Burbon should receyue his wages by whose meanes the French King shoulde be taken at Pauia and afterwards agayne by the meanes and vnspeakable liberalitie of this redoubted Monarch mooued with a royall compassion should be set at libertie and restored to his regall Crowne and dignitie Pope Clement being prisoner to the Imperiallistes though afterwardes vnthankfully requiting so great a benefite should be by his meanes set at libertie and once againe enthronized But what shoulde I stande repeating these things vnto you which you your selfe so well remember were long agon by the Destinies in maner of prophecie to you vnfolded you see your selfe what he hath accomplyshed what now remayneth for him hauing by admirable Vertues and inuincible Armes drawen the worldes loue vnto him but aspiring to immortalitie to conquer death and to make him selfe Lorde of this Forest. As for my selfe I know mine owne power and finde the same farre too weake to resist so great a puissance Therefore I pray you yf you be not vtterly carelesse of my safetie and your owne seruice let Accident be commaunded to ioyne with mee and withall the vttermost of your other forces to be assembled to succour vs if neede require Atropos hereupon shall call for Accident encharging him to assist Debilitie comforting them both with this assurance that though this were the greatest and most redoubted enemie that euer they encountred yet they shoulde not feare for being mortall the high neuer-faylyng decree of Heauen had ordeyned him to death neuerthelesse she shall aduise them to arme them selues with all possible Heedefulnesse and to be circumspect in their maner of fight Heerewith being somwhat encouraged they shall arme them selues at all peeces with the surest tempered armours and the sharpest deadly weapons that the shorehouse or armorie of Atropos can yeelde them and so march into the listes though terrified in themselues yet terrible to al the world els saue onely to the dreadlesse Prince that shal encounter them And now euen like the roring Ocean against a tempest so shall the cloud-breaking noyse of his warrlike instruments approch with an vnspeakable terror when presently like the Sunne out of a cloude so gloriously from out the louing presse of his enuironing subiectes shall appeare the excellent heire of the two long diuided houses Lancaster and Yorke great Henry the eyght of England with an vnmooued Maiestie and sure resolued looke though he see all deaths forces bent vnto his ruine His Courser shalbe inuincible Courage sure footed and neuer once stumbling in this dangerous carreere but bearing him smoothly thorough without euer starting fearing or blemishing at the furious encoūter of his forcible enemie His Corslet shalbe of Fortitude gorgiously glistring in the pure brightnesse of true Nobilitie as being of excellent proofe against al outward violence so of singuler vertue in defending his royall minde from all thoughts of dishonour His Lance well iudging Foresight surely fastened to his rest of great Experience neuer therewith vnskilfully failing or vnknightly breaking a crosse but with a faire encounter still striking the honorable marke whereunto it is by his worthy minde directed His Sworde of cleere vnspotted Iustice firmely hilted in Wisdome and ensheathed in a faire scabbard of Mercie out of which he shall neuer draw it but when he shalbe by forcible necessitie therto constreined His Target of Trust onely in God vpon which he shal beare the blowes of all earthly violence His fierie crested Headpeece of high Cogitation lyned with prosperous Effect and adorned with a fayre beautiful penache of immortal Fame His Coat-armour of such and so great Renowne as neuer more coulde happen to any mortal creature His Heralde at armes shalbe vnspeakable Liberalitie which shal set such a grace vpon his other vertues and that in so loude a voyce that all the worlde shal heare him Thus honored thus armed thus adorned shal this great King enter within the compasse of the fatal lystes Vertue leading him and Glorie folowing him The eyes and hartes of al the worlde being fixed and attentiuely bent vpon the sequel of this admirable combat In fine the Heraldes hauing commaunded silence the Trumpets sounded the cruel notes of warte Accident not daring approche the rayes of so great a brightnesse shal begin the fight a farre off thinking to terrifie him with forayne Leagues and Inuasions But the King betaking him selfe to his trustie fore-remembred Lance shal with a thundring carrere so represse the violence therof that the blow in steede of harming him shal erect new Trophees to his honour Then shal he throw at the fearelesse Prince his dartes of Treason and secret Conspiracies but he vnsheathing his excellent Sworde shall turne the danger thereof aside and make frustrate the force thereof so that the smart and peryll shall returne to his enemies
of the towne their Prince and Bishoppe being his kinseman spoyling their countrie and taking their townes and bringing them to such extremitie that they were constreined to receiue their Bishoppe againe withal to appease the Duke with great summes of Money Comming thence there fell out new occasion of warres betweene him and the French king for pacification of which differentes it was agreed that the king and he should meete at Peronne there to expostulat their greefes in freendly sort one with another And that he should geue vnto the king a letter of assurance vnder his hand and seale which he did But the conclusion hereof was that the Duke being aduertised how the King had by his Embassadours secretly practised with those of Lyege to rebell tooke him prisoner and led him with him to the Citie of Lyege which being by streight confederation allyed to the King he caused after all maner of rigorous crueltie executed vpon the inhabitantes to be saccaged and burnt and then vpon new agreementes to his owne aduantage he dismissed the King In the yeere 1474. the olde Duke of Guilders being vilanously and vnnaturally taken by his Sonne Adolph and imprisoned in a dungion mooued sundry Christian Princes to compassion among the rest D. Charles who earnestly laboured to make an attonmēt betweene them but his sonne arrogantly refusing to heare of pacification was by the D. of Burgundie retayned in prison whose father shortly after dying gaue his Dukedome by Testament to Duke Charles who tooke thereof vnder this title forcible possession and those which are discended of him do yet enioy it Sweetned with this Dutchie and aspiring to greater matters in Germanie he went besieged the citie of Nuz which was succoured by the Germans and Swissers vnder the conduct of Frederike the Emperour so that he was constrained to raise his siege In despite of which assistance geuen by the Swissers he entred their Countrey with his Armie but was by them ouerthrowen and vanquished at a place called Granson This day was the first of the Dukes misfortunes with which euen vntill his dying day he was perpetually pursued Encouraged with which victorie on euerie side new forces came out of Germanie to the Armie of the Swissers the D. of Lorayne him selfe in person Yet all this dismayed not the D. of Burgundie who hauing refreshed his Armie set vpon them the seconde time at a place called Morat but was as before vanquished againe and was constreyned to flie with the losse of 8000. of his men slayne in the Feelde Presently the Duke of Lorayne marched in all expedition to Nansie that helde for the Duke of Burgundie which rendred vnto him vpon composition Within two dayes after the D. Charles arriued with an vndismayed courage and full resolution to attempt Fortune agayne Among the rest that had credite about him was one Campobache an Italian Counte at home in his countrey poore and of no reuenew but by the D. aduaunced to great commaundement in his Armie and made Captaine of 400. men at armes who seeing the cruel misfortunes befallen to his Maister began presently to enter into practise with the D. of Lorayne about the merchandize of his Maisters lyfe the price of which he made 20000. Crownes and an Earldome this he promised and the same being accepted he did as villanously performe it For this battayle of Nansie was no sooner began but he with his 400. Italian Horsemen fled to the other side the amazement of which did so terrifie the Duke of Burgundies Armie being twise alredie beaten and discouraged that they presently fledde and the Duke him selfe was found in the feeld slaine mangled with many woundes for the villaine Campobache had hired 14. or 15. of his cutthrote traytors to watch the Duke at an inch to the ende that he would be sure he should not escape Mary his onely daughter and heire succeding her father in the Dukedomes of Burgundie and Brabant and the Earledomes of Flaunders Henault Artois Holland Zeland Frizland c. was by the consent of her Subiectes especially those of Gaunt in whose hands since her fathers death she had remained maried to young Maximilian Archduke of Austria and sonne to Frederike the Emperour of that name the third to whom hauing borne three children Philippe Margaret Francis who in his infancie deceassed she died in the fairest springing blossom of her youth being not aboue .xxiij. yeeres of age lies buried at Bruges Some do attribute her death to the fal of an Horse true it is she fell but the Author who was of great authoritie about her doth rather attribute it to some greeuous impression of sorow Philippe de Comines likewise seemeth to doubt whether she died of that fall or no. Don Iohn second of that name king of Castile had in first mariage Mary daughter to Ferdinand K. of Arragon by her he had a sonne called Henrie that succeded him and a daughter that died young His wife dying he tooke in second marriage Isabell daughter to Don Iohn infant of Portingale by whom he had a sonne called Alonso that died young and a daughter called Isabell and then dying in the yeere 1454. was by his sonne Henrie the. 4. succeeded in the royaltie who maried Iane daughter to Edward King of Portingale who bare vnto him a daughter likewise called Iane who though she proued a Princesse of much wisedome great beautie and many other excellent partes yet through a rumour of the Kinges impotencie in matter of generation Isabel sister to the king was by her faction proclaimed Heire apparant to the Crowne the young Princesse declared to be a bastard begotten vpon the Queene by Don Beltran D. of Abuquerque and by and by a mariage motioned betweene young Ferdinand Prince of Arragon and the Lady Isabell which was effected priuately in Duenas These matters were greeuous vnto the king but remedie it he could not In the ende he died and Ferdinand and Isabell were without contradiction obeyed in Castile which reprochfull iniurie the poore Princesse bearing with exceeding patience though many great mariages were offered her refused them all and betooke herselfe to a Monastery wherin she ended peaceably her dayes They began their reigne in the yeere 1474. and continued the same many yeeres in great glorie both of warre and peace They expelled the Moores out of Spaine and subdued the kingdome of Naples deliuering thereof a quiet possession to their successors which yet do enioy it They had betweene them a sonne whose name was Iohn a Prince of exceeding towardnes or rather singular perfection They maried him to Margaret daughter to Maximilian of Austria by the Lady Mary the before remembred Dutchesse of Burgundy but soone after the marriage he dyed for whom there was made such exceeding lamentation as by report of sundry Authors the like in the worlde was neuer heard of for besids the dolefull mourning of the Nobilitie Gentlemen so generall a greefe was