Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Louise Pryor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES OF _ENGLAND_, _SCOTLAND_, AND _IRELAND_. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. II. 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. 1807. 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 PEREGRINÆ TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND HIS SINGULAR GOOD LORD, _SIR WILLIAM CECILL_, BARON OF BURGHLEYGH, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, LORD HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND, MAISTER OF THE COURTS OF WARDS AND LIUERIES, AND ONE OF THE QUEENES MAIESTIES PRIUIE COUNCELL. * * * * * Considering with my selfe, right Honorable and my singular good Lord, how redie (no doubt) manie will be to accuse me of vaine presumption, for enterprising to deale in this so weightie a worke, and so far aboue my reach to accomplish: I haue thought good to aduertise your Honour, by what occasion I was first induced to vndertake the same, although the cause that moued me thereto hath (in part) yer this beene signified vnto your good Lordship.