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prince_n	create_v	king_n	wales_n	3,739	5	10.5982	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44656	The life and reign of King Richard the Second by a person of quality.	Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.	1681 (1681)	Wing H3001; ESTC R6502	128,146	250

Mothers Handsomness being celebrated for the goodliest Personage and most amiable Countenance of any King that had been before him since the Conquest His Father after he had filled both France and Spain with terrible Trophies of his Valour having taken the King of the former Prisoner and in the latter generously by his Arms restored Peter King of Castile and Leon when injuriously driven out of those Realms by the Arragonians and French was in the Forty sixth year of his Age snatcht away by death some say hastened by Poyson during the Life of his Father King Edward who having then three other Sons still surviving viz. John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Edmund of Langley afterwards Earl of Cambridge and Duke of York and Thomas of Woodstock afterwards Duke of Gloucester For preventing any Quarrels after his own decease and all Pretensions which any of them might make to the Crown to the prejudice of his Grandchild this our Prince Richard to whom as Son of the eldest Brother it was adjudged to belong He resolves to see his Right declared and settled in Parliament Creating likewise the said Richard first Earl of Chester and Cornwall and then Prince of Wales and taking an Oath of all the Lords of the Realm to accept him for their King as his lawful Heir when ever himself should expire Being thus put into the immediate Prospect of a Crown the over-burdensom Glory came too fast upon his tender head for King Edward having over-liv'd his Fortune and the better part of himself his Conquests abroad being daily ravisht back and Alice Price his Concubine shamefully ruling both Him and most Affairs at home oppressed with Grief and Age though some say much more debilitated by the Caresses of that petulant Strumpet resign'd his last Breath at Richmond the One and twentieth of June Anno Dom. 1377 in the Sixty fourth Year of his Age having Reigned Fifty Years four Months and odd Days Upon the first notice of his Death the City of London sent Deputies to Prince Richard who with the Princess his Mother lay then at Kingstone to acknowledge him their lawfull Sovereign and request that he would please to honour them with his Presence and nearer Residence Which Message was kindly received and the young King soon after came to his Palace at Westminster and on the Sixteenth day of July was solemnly Crowned the Citizens sparing no Cost to express their Loyalty and zealous Affection to his Person both in his Passage through the Town and at his Coronation As by several Triumphant Arches Conduits running with Wine and all other Demonstrations of a transporting Joy Insomuch that by some of the Nobility he was Ironically caled The Londoner's King His tender Age being at his Grandfathers Death but eleven years old required some Protector or chief Managers of Publick Affairs but to whom to commit so weighty a Trust is the Difficulty If to One Ambition joyned with Power may tempt to Vsurpation Nor wanted they a Precedent at home whilst they remembred how King John justled out his Nephew Prince Arthur If to several then it might be feared that different private Interests Factions and By-ends from which scarce any of the Grandees were free might intangle or retard their Proceedings so as to obstruct their acting unanimously and chearfully for the Publick Weal At last hoping to please all Pretenders and considering that from a multitude of Councellors most safety might be expected They intrusted first the Kings Three Vncles but Lancaster whether discontented to have any Partners or that he cared not much to intermeddle because he had contracted both the Enmity of the Clergy and the dissatisfaction of the Londoners Or whether having a pretence to the Crown of Castile by the Marriage of Constance Daughter of the before-mentioned King Peter that he might better pursue his Claim thereunto warily withdrawing himself from that Charge several other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal were added till at last being found too many the same was Conferr'd wholly upon the Earl of Warwick who discharged the Office with good satisfaction The Scotch and French promising themselves Advantages from the Kings Minority began to make Attempts upon his Territories almost before he was in possession of the Crown The first surprized the Castle of Berwick the second the Isle of Wight and burnt and pillag'd several Towns and Villages on the Coasts but were both quickly repuls'd and beaten out again About two Months after the Coronation a Parliament is called which sate from Michaelmas to S. Andrew's Day and Banished Alice Price King Edward's Mistress for that whereas formerly being complained of as a Grievance in Parliament she had sworn never to come again into the Kings Court or Presence which the King had likewise confirmed with his Oath yet after the death of the Black Prince she had returned and misgovern'd the King presuming to fit in judicial Courts and by her Presence and Influence to wrest Justice and in his sickness flattered him with hopes of Life so that he neglected making Provision for his Soul till he was quite speechless whilst she in the mean time purloyned away the choicest things in the Palace and stole even the very Rings off his Fingers and then like a Right Harlot left him gasping for Life and unable to speak one word in the Company only of one poor Priest My Author says when she came now to be questioned she had with Money corrupted many of the Lords and all the Lawyers of England who did not only secretly but publickly plead and use all their Interest in her behalf yet she was so vigorously prosecuted by the Knights in Parliament that being by her own Mouth Convicted she was Banisht the Land and all her Estate moveable and immoveable forfeited to the Exchequer from whence by the late Kings Favour or rather Dotage it had unduly been obtain'd There was also by this Parliament given to the King Two Tenths of the Clergy and Two Fifteenths of the Temporalty to be paid the same year but on this Condition viz. That the King for the future should not burden them with more Requests of that kind to draw away his Subjects Money but would live on his Demeasns and continue his War for that as it was there answer'd His proper Royal Revenues were sufficient both to maintain his Court and carry on his Wars if the same were but manag'd by fit and trusty Ministers And therefore it was agreed that this Money so given should as it was raised be deposited in the hands of two Citizens of London William Waller and John Philpot who were to see it bestow'd for the Defence of the Realm 1378. This John Philpot was an Alderman of London a Person of no less Courage than Prudence as appears by the following Exploit Sometime after the Parliament broke up and the Money collected the Duke of Lancaster to whom nothing almost could be denied was very Importunate to have the same delivered to his Dispose promising therewith