Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the FiftHolinshed, Raphael
History
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
7 Item, where the king hath now no more liuelod out of his realme
of England, but onelie the land of Ireland, and the towne of Calis,
and that no king christened hath such a land and a towne without his
realme; diuerse lords haue caused his highnesse to write letters vnder
his priuie seale, vnto his Irish enimies, which neuer king of England
did heretofore, wherby they may haue comfort to enter into the conquest
of the said land, which letters the same Irish enimies sent vnto me
the said duke of Yorke, and maruelled greatlie that anie such letters
should be to them sent, speaking therin great shame and villanie of the
said realme.
8 Item, in like wise the king by excitation and labour of the same
lords, wrote other letters to his enimies and aduersaries in other
lands, that in no wise they should shew anie fauour or good will to
the towne of Calis, whereby they had comfort inough to procéed to the
winning thereof. Considered also, that it is ordeined by the labour of
the said lords, that no where vittels nor other thing of refreshing
or defense should come out of England, to the succour or reliefe of
the said towne, to the intent that they would haue it lost, as it may
openlie appeare.
9 Item, it is déemed and ought greatlie to be déemed, that after the
same lords would put the same rule of England, if they might haue their
purpose and intent, into the hands and gouernance of the said enimies.
10 Item, how continuallie since the pitious, shamefull, and sorrowfull
murther to all England, of that noble, worthie, and christian prince
Humfreie duke of Glocester the kings true vncle, at Burie, it hath
béene laboured, studied and conspired, to haue destroied and murthered
the said duke of Yorke, and the issue that it pleased God to send
me of the roiall bloud, and also of vs the said earles of Warwike
and Salisburie, for none other cause but for the true hart that (God
knoweth) we euer haue borne, and beare to the profit of the kings
estate, to the common-weale of the same realme, and defense thereof.
11 Item, how the earles of Shrewesburie and Wilshire, and the lord
Beaumont, our mortall and extreme enimies now, and of long time past,
hauing the guiding about the most noble person of our said souereigne
lord, whose highnesse they haue restreined & kept from the libertie
& fréedome that belongeth to his said estate, & the supporters &
fauourers of all the premisses, would not suffer the kings said good
grace to receiue and accept vs, as he would haue doone, if he might
haue had his owne will, into his said presence, dreading the charge
that would haue béene laid vpon them, of the miserie, destruction, and
wretchednesse of the said realme, whereof they be causes, and not the
king, which is himselfe as noble, as vertuous, as righteous and blessed
of disposition, as anie prince earthlie.
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