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A13318	A booke, containing the true portraiture of the countenances and attires of the kings of England, from William Conqueror, vnto our Soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth now raigning together with a briefe report of some of the principall acts of the same kings, especially such as haue bene least mentioned in our late writers. Diligently collected by T.T.	Talbot, Thomas, antiquary.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620, attributed name.; Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 23626; ESTC S100225	9,805	48

buried in the Towre of London ✚ EDVARDVS · V RICHARD Duke of Gloucester youngest brother to king Edward the fourth began his vsurped raigne ouer this realme by the name of k. Richard the third the xxij day of Iune an 1483. and was crowned at Westminster the vj. day of Iuly next ensuing He not contented with the deposing of his nephews from their right nor thinking himselfe surely setled in the kingdome till he had berest them of their liues caused the great seale of England to be fetched from Iohn Russell bishop o. Lincolne Lord Chauncellour being at London brought vnto him being on his progresse then in Warwickshire wherewith he secretly sealed such commissions as serued to the murder of the two sweet babes And thē sent the seale backe againe to the Chauncellor after it had bin viij dayes in his custody He most impudently defamed his owne mother with adultery likewise king Edwards children to be bastards the easier thereby to come to his purpose But all this would not serue for Henry Earle of Richmondentred the realme and in a battell by Bosworth slue him the 22. of August 1485. whē he had raigned most tyrannically two yeares and two months and was buried at Leicester ✚ RICHARDVS III · HENRIE Earle of Richmond borne in Penbroke castle in Wales sonne of Edmund of Hadham Earle of Richmond sonne of Owen ap Meredeth and Queene Katherine the French kings daughter late wife to king Henry the fift being of the age of xxx yeares began his raigne ouer this realme by the name of king Henry the vij the xxij day of August anno 1485. and was crowned at Westminster the xxx day of October next ensuing by the hands of Thomas Bourghchier Archbishop of Canterbury This king was wise valiant hardy for as the fame went he slue king Richard the iij. with his owne hands He vsed oftentimes to sit in proper person in courts of Iustice sometimes in one court sometimes in another which caused true and perfect iustice to take place He bestowed his offices not of fauour nor affection but on such as were most apt and fit persons for the same He gathered much riches by executing of penall lawes He ended his life at his new manour of Rich mond the xxi day of Aprill at night in the yeare of our Lord 1509. when he had raigned xxiij yeares viij moneths and lieth buried in his new chappell at VVestminster ✚ HENRICVS · VII HENRIE borne at Grenewich second sonne to king Henry the vij being of the age of xvij yeares vpward began his raigne ouer this realme by the name of king Henry viij the xxij day of Aprill 1509. and was crowned at VVestminster the xxiiij day of Iune next ensuing by the hands of VVilliam Warham archbishop of Canterbury By his first wife the Lady Katherine daughter to Ferdinand kind of Spaine he had a daughter named Mary that was afterwarde queene of England By the Lady Anne Rochford Marquionesse of Penbroke daughter to Thomas Bolein Earle of VViltshire and Ormond his second wife he had Lady Elizabeth now Queene of England And by the Lady Iane daughter to Sir Iohn Seint Maure knight his third wife he had a sonne named Edward that succeeded his father in the kingdome of England This king erected the court of Augmentation of the reuenues of the crowne the court of VVards and ordeined that the chiefe officer thereof should be called the maister of the VVards for euer He ended his life at VVestminster the xxvij of Ianuarie anno 1547. when he had raigned xxxvij yeares 9. moneths and 5. dayes and lieth buried at VVindsore ✚ HENRICVS · VIII · EDWARD the sixt borne at Hampton Court sonne heire to king Henry the viij being of the age of ix years began his raigne ouer this realme the xxviij of Ianuary 1547. and was crowned at Westminster the xx of Februarie next following by the hands of Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterburie This king in his tender age so profited in all kind of vertue good learning that he attained to the perfect knowledge of the Greeke Latine and French tongs In wisdom good pollicie he farre extelled all others of his years much like to haue proued another Salomon if death had not preuēted his dayes He was much delighted in reading the sacred Scripturs other good authors the better thereby to be able in true iustice to gouerne his people committed to his charge Yet for all this his tender age gaue occasion to some of his stubborne stifnecked people to rebell And the pride of some women was cause of great dissention amongst his Nobility which not long after was a shortening of some of their daies He ended his life at Grenewich the v. day of Iuly anno 1553. in the xvi yeare of his age when he had raigned vj. yeares v. moneths and 8. dayes and was buried at Westminster ✚ EDVARDVS · VI · MARIE borne at Grenewich elder daughter to king Henry the viij and sister and heire to the late deceased king Edward the vi being of the age of xxxviij yeares began her raigne ouer this realme the vj. of Iuly anno 1553. and was crowned at Westminster the 1. of October next following by the hands of Stephen Gardiner bishoppe of VVinchester and Chauncellor of England for Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury was then prisoner in the Tower She being indebted in very great sums of money both to the societie of Fulckers and other marchant strangers borrowed so much money of her subiects vpon priuie seales as acquited the forraine debt thinking much better to be indebted at home then to pay great interest abroad procured thereby much euill will and hatred of her subiects as neuer afterward could be remoued After this the losse of Caleis so troubled her as the memorie thereof would neuer out of her mind till her dying day so that shortly after she died at her mansion house called S. Iames neare to Westminster the xvij of Nouember 1558. at iiij of the clocke in the morning hauing raigned v. yeares v. moneths and x. dayes and was buried at Westminster ✚ MARIA · REGINA · ELIZABETH our gracious Queene born at Grenewich second daughter to king Henrie the viij sister heire to the late Queene Marie being of the age of 25. yeares and two moneths begā her most prosperous raigne ouer this realm the xvij of Nouember 1558. was crowned at Westminster the xv of Ianuarie next following by the hands of Owē Oglethorp bishop of Carlile She is a Princesse adorned with all good litterature both holy and humane a nourisher of peace both at home and abroad Amongst all other her most rare vertues she hath reformed religion she hath reduced all base coines which were currant here before her dayes into perfect gold siluer so that there is no other mony lesse or more currāt within her dominions which is not to be seene at this day else where vnder any Prince Christian or Ethnicke She hath builded such faire strong ships furnished so mighty a nauy for the defence of her coūtrie as maketh all her enemies afraid to attēpt any thing against the same God of his infinit goodnes defend her Maiestie from all perils dangers who this 38. yeares and more hath taken care to keepe vs in quietnesse and grant her Nestors yeares to her glory and our great comfort ELIZABETH · D · G · REGINA ·

A BOOKE CONTAINING THE TRVE PORTRAITVRE OF THE COVNTENANCES and attires of the kings of England from William Conqueror vnto our Soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth now raigning TOGETHER WITH A BRIEFE report of some of the principall acts of the same Kings especially such as haue bene least mentioned in our late writers Diligently collected by T. T. LONDON Printed by Iohn de Beauchesne dwelling in the Blacke Fryers 1597. WILLIAM Duke of Normandy base sonne of Robert Duke of Normandy being a warlike politick prince of neere kinred great credit with Edward Confessor king of England whom he perceiued more giuē to vertue thē to pollicy through weaknes of body course of yeares vnlikely to liue long began to contriue in his mynd the attaining of the crowne of this land after the deceasse of the old king For accōplishing whereof he placed diuerse Normans in the greatest roomes about him whilest he liued and when he was dead leuied an army of sundry nations and therewith pretending the patronage of England against Harolde the sonne of Godwin that vsurped the kingdome first fought with him slue him at the place now called Batell in Sussex the xiiij of October in the yeare 1066. tooke the crowne vpon him by election of the Estates Then seeking to stop titles he imprisoned Eadgar Etheling the only true heire of the Saxons bloud by meanes of Ethelbert Archbishop of Hamborow for money procured Suene king of Denmarke to surcease the clame of the Danes Hauing thus established his affairs died at S. Geruis neare Roane the 9. of Sept. an 1087. when he had raigned xx yeares x. moneths and xxvj dayes and was buried at Cane in the abbey of S. Stephen which he founded GVILIELMVS CONQVESTOR WILLIAM Rufus third sonne to the Conqueror borne in Normandy long before his father obtayned the realme hearing of his death made hast into England least by his elder brother Robert he should be preuented was by his large gifts which he bestowed out of his fathers treasurie hauing obtayned the keyes thereof receiued of the Nobility accepted of the inferior sort to be their king but chiefly by the perswasion of the archbishop Lanfranke vnder whom he was brought vp and was by him crowned at VVestminster the xxvij day of October anno 1087. He was brought vp with great care of his parents obeying his father in all his actions wherefore his father at his death appointed him to succeede in the kingdome He vanquished the VVelshmen ouercame the Scots and subdued his two vncles and others of his Nobility that rebelled against him in the behalfe of his elder brother Robert Duke of Normandy He was slaine with an arrowe as he was hunting in the new forest in Hamshire by a knight of his called Sir Walter Tirel the first day of August an 1100 when he had raigned xiij yeares lacking xxij dayes and was buried at Winchester GVILIELMVS · RVFVS HENRIE Beauclarke fourth sonne to the Conqueror was chosen king after the buriall of his brother by meanes of his old familiar friend Henrie Earle of Warwicke although there was some controuersie amongst the Nobilitie about the same yet the rather they consented thereto because he was by birth both an Englishman sonne to a King and Queene for he was borne in England the third yeare of his fathers raigne He was crowned at Westminster the fift day of August by Maurice Bishop of London in the absence of the Archbishop Anselme In the seuēth yeare of his raigne he tooke his eldest brother Robert Duke of Normandy prisoner and so he kept him till he dyed After which time he called himselfe King of England Duke of Normandy He left behind him but one onely daughter lawfully begotten Maud the Empresse then maried to Geffrey Plantaginet Earle of Angio mother to King Henry the secōd He died at S. Denis in the forest of Lions in Normandie the first day of December anno 1135. when he had raigned xxxv yeares and foure moneths was buried in the Abbey of Reding which he had founded · HENRICVS · I · STEPHEN borne in France and brought vp in England vnder his vncle king Henry the first Erle of Mortain in right of Maud his wife Erle of Bolein third sonne of Stephen Erle of Champaine and Blais and Alice his wife daughter to William Conqueror king of England began his raigne ouer this realme the ij day of December anno 1135. and was crowned at Westminster the xxvj day of the same month by the hands of William Corbuell archbishop of Canterbury This king came to the crowne by vsurpation and periurie both of himself most part of the Bishops and Nobilitie both he and they being before that sworne to maintaine the right of Maud the Empresse and her issue for the which God iustly sent this plague of dissention rebellion amōgst them which neuer could be appeased during his raigne He was valiant and hardie for in a battell at Lincolne where all his Nobility were fled or taken he valiantly stood in the forward continually fighting bestowing such stroks as those whō he hit were either rewarded with death or neuer prospered after He died in Kent the 25. of October 1154. hauing raigned 18. yeares 9. moneths and 23. daies was buried at Feuersham After whose death there was interregnum 54. dayes STEPHANVS REX HENRIE surnamed Fitz Emprice borne in Mayne sonne of Geffrey Plantaginet Earle of Angio Maud the Empres daughter and heire to Henrie the first king of England being of the age of xx yeres began his raign ouer this realme the xix of December 1154. and was crowned the same day at Westminster This king in right of his father vnited the Earledome of Angio to the crowne of England the Dukedome of Aquitaine with the Earldom of Poitiers in right of Alianore his wife by cōquest subdued the Duchy of Britaine the kingdome of Ireland therunto So that he was the only Monarch and chiefe gouernor frō the Iles of Orcades beyond Scotland vnto the vttermost bonds of the mountaines Perines which deuide France Spaine He was the first that ordained the Iustice of Ayer for the ease of the people he deuided this land into sixe circuits appointing to euery one 3. Iudges well learned in the lawes of this land He ended his dayes at Chinon in France the vj. day of Iuly ann 1189. when he had raigned 34. yeares 7. months lacking ten daies and was buried at Fount Euerard After whose death there was interregnum for the space of lviij dayes · HENRICVS · II · RICHARD Erle of Poitiers born at Oxford second sonne of king Henry the ij being xxxv yeares old began his raign ouer this realm the 3. of Septemb. 1189. was crowned at Westminster the same day by Baldwin Archbishop of Cāterbury He taking his iourney toward the holy lād was misused by the way of the Cipriās wherat he being offended set vpon them subdued thē in