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A00982	The nine English worthies: or, Famous and worthy princes of England being all of one name; beginning with King Henrie the first, and concluding with Prince Henry, eldest sonne to our Soueraigne Lord the King.	Fletcher, Robert, purveyor of carriages to Queen Elizabeth.	1606 (1606)	STC 11087; ESTC S118024	29,385	76

the Garter mightie Potentate Though to his Fathers sense it did appeare That Henry borne at Windsor should not be Like Henry borne at Mounmouth which was he Yet Henry borne at Windsor worthy fame Was and still is and shall be to the end His Colledges continue will his name Whil'st Worlds indure it is in marble pend Then worthy King Sixt Worthy liue and be For many Worthies were not like to thee King Henry the seauenth THat most valorous vertuous and politicke Prince King Henry the seauenth needeth not any preamble for his birth and education onely he was the true vndoubted heire of the house of Lancaster and came to the Crowne by the conquest of his enemy Richard Plantaginet late Duke of Glocester but later a most horrible murtherer registred Homicide Tyrant and Usurper of the crowne of England of whom I will make no further mention but that this mighty Prince conquered him and his people in foughten field At Bosworth in the county of Lecester 22. day of August 1485. the conflicte and conquest was determined So preuailed King Henry the seauenth the day and yeare aboue sayd to the great glory of God and the continued comfort euer since of all trew and faithfull English hearts Now this King being by conquest absolute by power able by birth heir Apparant yet to settle and make stedfast his raigne and succession he maried Elizabeth the daughter of king Edward the fourth next heire of the house of Yorke and so reunited both those howses most honorable in themselues into one intire monarchie into one vnity into one body into one I say and that a most happie one into one bed and blessed be that bedde and the séed for euer that sprang and still springeth of that generation This vnion or knitting of these two famous howses both together was the end of long continued ciuill warres the death of nobilitie destruction of the comminalty the griete of foraine Princes the lamentation of Citties the outcry of the people The State before this vnion was so rent and torne that it was thought a thing impossible euer to haue béene reconciled againe therefore this gracious beginning doth prognosticate a happie continuance and neuer to haue ending Yet the Dutches of Burgundy a Princesse of state and stomacke being Aunt to Elizabeth the Quéene did so much maligne this great and excellent good that she set vp many mawmentes and apysh toyes of purpose to distemper the peace of this vnion as rearing vp Perkin Warbecke a base dutch vassall to vsurpe the name of Richard Duke of Yorke the second sonne of king Edward the fourth who with his tender yong brother king Edward the fift had by their vnnaturall Uncle béen both murdered in the Tower Many vaine and surmiled images she aduanced to distemper the state vntill time and succession made an end of her malice which also by a lingring sicknesse tooke this worthy an excellent king forth of this World But before his death hee married the Lady Margaret his eldest Daughter to King Iames the fourth King of Scotland which mariage I thought good to insert as it is recorded in the course of his history viz. Iames the fourth king of Scotland a mighty and a valiant Prince hauing had sundry fewdes and garboyles wich the English Nation and that in the interim of truce and abstinence of warre especially about Norham castle the Bishop of Durham Richard Foxe owner of that castle in the right of the Bishopricke wrote diuers letters of submission to the sayd K. and the K. againe to the Bishop one letter in conclusion of many things that the bishop of Durham should come into Scotland to him about weighty affaires The Bishop certifying the King his Soueraigne of the premisses The King commanded the Bishop by his letters to satisfie the Scottish Kings desires which he tooke to be both reasonable and honorable and of which message the Bishop was verie glad So going into Scotland the king himself most gratiously curteously receaued this Bishop at the Abby of Melrose and after some expostulation with the Bishop touching some slaughter done vpon his Subiects at Norham Castle and the Bishops submisse and gentle answers thereunto the King gaue the same most like a King the hearing And afterward called the Bishop into a secret place garden or gallery where no witnesses were admitted but only the King and the Bishop and then he declared vnto him what iust causes had mooued him in times past to séeke amitie with the king of England which now he desired to haue confirmed and to hold inuiolable for euer if the sayd King would vouchsafe to conioyne in matrimony with him the faire and bountifull Princesse L. Margaret the K. eldest daughter In the behalf whereof we were purposed to send our Embassadors to the K. your master But we thought good first to proue your loue good liking and forwardnes towards vs and our good liking to your king his daughter his subiects and dominions The Bishop answered but fewe words only he sayde that when he was returned to the King his master hee would in so great and waighty a cause doe the best offices that hee coulde When the Bishop was returned into England and came before the king hee declared to his Maiestie all the communication which had passed betwéene king Iames of Scotland and him from point to point in order The king liked excéeding well of the motion as he to whom peace was euer a soueraigne salue But hauing then a mariage in nuptiall celebration almost betwéen Arthur Prince of Wales and Katherine the Infant of Spaine the mariage with Scotland being hastened by both the kings in the very triumphs of the former mariage king Iames sendeth an Earle a Bishop diuers noble personages who were receaued into London for the consummation of his mariage with the aforenamed Lady Margaret which Earle by proxey in the name of king Iames his master affied and contracted the said lady The which affiance was published at Pauls crosse the day of the conuersion of S Paul being the 25. day of Januarie supposed In the reioicing wherof Te Deum was sung great bonefiers made throughout the Citty of London All these things being accomplished the Imbassadors both of Scotland and Spayne tooke their leaue of the king and departed not without great rewards to both the Embassadors Not long after the Lady Margaret affyed as aforesaid was sent towards the king her husband the conueiance of which princesse was committed to the Earls of Northumberland Surrey the Earle of Northumberland being L. Warden of the Marches and was commanded to deliuer her at the very confines of both the realmes And thereupon she was remoued from Barwicke to Lamberton Kyok in Scotland where the kings Maiestie met her and with him all the flower of Scotland of Noblemen and Gentlemen and where the Earle of Northumberland according to his commission deliuered her vnto the king of Scotland The Earle

Kings in Kingly armors clad Were beaten downe by the Earle Dowglas hand To see them fall it seem'd his heart to glad To rise againe he sayd ô powerfull land That valiant harts withstanding fortunes checke Three Kings to rise each one in others necke King Henry the fift THe Prince of Wales son and heire to king Henry the fourth was born at Mounmouth in Wales vpon the riuer of Wy after his Father was departed this life he tooke on him the regiment of the Realme of England the 20. day of March and beeing proclaimed King by the name of Henry the fift the yeare of our Lord 1413 such great hope good expectation was had of this kings fortunate successe to follow that within sowre dayes after his Fathers departure diuers Noble men and honourable personages did to him homage and sware to him due obedience which had not béen séen done to any his predecessors kings of this Realme till they had been possessed of the Crowne Hee was crowned the ninth day of Aprill beeing Palme-sonday and béeing a very fierce and cruell day for variety of fowle weather men diuined and déemed diuersely what might insue of such a beginning But whatsoeuer mens fantasies might or did coniecture yet this was the King that according to the prouerbe did shewe and declare indéede how trewe and new honor ought to make exchange of old and euill manners For no sooner was he inuested king and had receiued the Crowne but hee did put vpon him the shape of a newe man turning insolency and wildenesse into grauity and sobernesse and whereas hee had passed his youth with wanton and dissolute wild yong gentlemen who had led him into all excesse of ryot in so much as one of his youthfull traine beeing committed by the Lord chiefe Iustice for misdemeanour the youthfull Prince did strike the Lord chiefe Iustice vpon the face who also presently committed the Prince to straite and close prison The King his Father mainetained the Lorde chiefe Iustice banished the Prince from his presence and Courte did remoue him from the Counsell Table and woulde not readmit him into fauour vntill with submission extraordinary hee obtained the same But as before beeing placed in the seate Royall hee called these Gallants before him toulde them of his and their owne faultes banished them from his presence not vnrewarded nor yet vnpreferred inhibiting them vpon a great payne not once to approach lodge or soiourne within ten myles of his Courte or Mansions And then hee made choise of graue wise and politicke Counsellors by whose high wisdomes and prudent aduertisements he might at all times rule to his honour and gouerne to his profit And considering with himself what charge hee had in hand and what appertained to his duty and office he trusted not too much to his owne wisedome Iudgement and directions but as is aforesayde he called to his Counsell such honourable personages as might assist him in the gouernmēt of so weighty a charge to instruct him with such good reasons and fruitefull perswasions as that thereby he might shewe himselfe to his subiects a Mirror of vertue and an example of iust and vpright dealing And hauing first laid the foundations of his gouernment sure he did prouidently forecast and consider in his Princely minde that euery good gifte and euery perfect gifte commeth downe from the Father of lightes He determined withall to begin with something most acceptable to his diuine Maiestie And therfore cōmanded the Clergy sincerely truly to preach the Word of God and liue accordingly that they might be as they ought to be and their profession required lanternes of light to the temporaltie The Lay men he commanded to serue God and obey their Prince prohibiting them aboue all things the breach of matrimony the fowle abuse of swearing chiefely of wilfull periury and to that end he ordained good holesome lawes and presently summoned a Parliament in the which in honor of the most noble order of the garter he ordained the day of S. George euer after to be kept with a double feast in this his first parliament he propounded matters of questiō touching the hierarchy of Churchgouernment that time but was answered with the iust and lawful title which he had to the kingdome of France Which when he had conceiued to pursue the Dolphin of France a valiant yong prince sent vnto his Maiesty a barrel of tennis bals as if he would haue sayd these are fit instruments for such a young gentleman to play withall as you the King of England is not at these years to forecast the conquest or rather a Reconquest of the noble and renowned kingdome of France which the King my Father and I the Dolphin doe and will possesse mauger the power of England But this redoubted king magnanimous wise graue and settled to all kingly resolutions sendeth the Dolphin this mild and sober answere Go tell that gallant yong gentleman your Master that I doe thanke him for his present and will with all speed prepare to send him in requitall such store of London bals as shall batter the strongest holdes make stoops the most bewtifull Towers and make flat the chimnies and roufes of houses about his and his Fathers eares that are contained in the realme confines of France For I will make the highest crowne to stoop and the proudest miter to kneele down yea and that before one yeare doe passe me by the power of God Which thing to make good he slacked no time omitted no occasiō lost no opportunitie but made preparation both by sea and land to execute the full of his intended purposes Being furnished for the expedition of the fleet ready for his Maiestie and Armies to saile forth for the intire conquest of all France behold a conspiracy was practized against this immaculate king by the Earle of Cambridge and others at Sowthhampton vpon whom he commanded though sore against his wil as some Authors do affirme execution to be done vpon his going to shipborde making it knowen by a most louing and princely Oration how vnwilling hee was to haue taken life away or to haue left the noble Earle of Camebridge deade and sequestred from his then victorious voyage Yet had he seene or foreséene at that time to haue shewed the like vpon the Earle of March Richard Duke of Yorke had not claimed afterward as he did nor confounded the state and gouernement of this kings onely sonne nor wrought his owne end at Wakefield as he did but the Almighty is and euer wil be all in all This his first and honourable voyage into France his warlike proceedings there his conquest of many particulars his battaile or most famous victorie at Agincourt where hee slewe and subiected to himselfe as prisoners and captiues al the flower and chiualry of France his returne againe into England his second voyage backe againe his second conquest of all France the Homages of Philip duke of Burgundy with other estates of