Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding: ā ē ō ū [letters with overline representing following m or n] If any of these characters do not display properly--in particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letter--or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the Latin-1 version of the file instead. Spelling is unchanged. In general, “v” is used initially and “u” non-initially. Variations are in the original, as are the phrase “a great great deale of care” and the title-page spelling PEREGRNÆ.] HOLINSHED’S CHRONICLES OF _ENGLAND_, _SCOTLAND_, AND _IRELAND_. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. III. ENGLAND. _LONDON_: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; F.C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. PAYNE; WILKIE AND ROBINSON; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; CADELL AND DAVIES; AND J. MAWMAN. 1808. AMS PRESS INC. NEW YORK 1965 AMS PRESS INC. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10003 1965 MANUFACTURED in the U.S.A. [_Original Title_] THE THIRD VOLUME OF CHRONICLES, BEGINNING AT DUKE WILLIAM THE NORMAN, COMMONLIE CALLED THE CONQUEROR; AND _DESCENDING BY DEGREES OF YEERES_ TO ALL THE KINGS AND QUEENES OF ENGLAND IN THEIR ORDERLIE SUCCESSIONS: FIRST COMPILED BY _RAPHAELL HOLINSHED_, AND BY HIM EXTENDED TO THE YEARE 1577. NOW NEWLIE RECOGNISED, AUGMENTED, AND CONTINUED (WITH OCCURRENCES AND ACCIDENTS OF FRESH MEMORIE) TO THE YEARE 1586. WHEREIN ALSO ARE CONTEINED MANIE MATTERS OF SINGULAR DISCOURSE AND RARE OBSERUATION, _FRUITFULL TO SUCH AS BE STUDIOUS IN ANTIQUITIES_, OR TAKE PLEASURE IN THE GROUNDS OF ANCIENT HISTORIES. _With a third table (peculiarlie seruing this third volume) both of names and matters memorable._ HISTORIÆ PLACEANT NOSTRATES AC PEREGRNÆ. HENRIE THE FOURTH, Cousine Germane to Richard the Second, latelie depriued. When king Richard had resigned (as before is specified) the scepter and crowne; Henrie Plantagenet borne at Bullingbroke in the countie of Lincolne, duke of Lancaster and Hereford, earle of Derbie, Leicester, and Lincolne, sonne to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster, with generall consent both of the lords & commons, was published, proclamed, and declared king of England and of France, and lord of Ireland, the last daie of September, in the yeare of the world 5366, of our Lord 1399, of the reigne of the emperour Wenceslaus the two and twentith, of Charles the first king of France the twentith, and the tenth of Robert the third king of Scots. After that king Richard had surrendered his title, and dispossessed himselfe (which Chr. Okl. noteth in few words, saieing;