Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9): Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the SixtHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9): Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
When the earle of Suffolke heard what fortune thus happened to his
fréends, as one in vtter despaire to haue anie good successe in his
pretensed enterprise, wandred about all Germanic and France, to
purchase some aid and succour, if by anie means he might. But when he
perceiued no stedfast ground to catch anchor hold vpon, he submitted
himselfe vnder the protection of Philip archduke of Austrich. But his
brother Richard, being a politike man, so wiselie ordered himselfe in
this stormie tempest, that he was not intrapped either with net or
snare. The king not yet out of all doubt of ciuill sedition, bicause a
great number of euill disposed persons partakers of this conspiracie,
were fled into sundrie sanctuaries, deuised to haue all the gates of
sanctuaries and places priuileged shut and locked vp, so that none
should issue out from thence to perturbe and disquiet him.
[Sidenote: Sanctuaries restrained.]
And for that intent he wrote vnto pope Alexander, desiring him by his
authoritie to adiudge all Englishmen, being fled to sanctuarie for the
offense of treason as enimies to the christian faith, interdicting and
prohibiting the refuge and priuilege of sanctuarie to all such, as once
had enioied the libertie and protection of the same, and after that
fled out, and eftsoones returned againe. Which thing after that the
pope had granted, turned to the great quietnesse of the king and his
realme. For manie that had offended, for feare to fall into danger,
returned to the due subiection of their prince; and other that were yet
frée from perill, durst not hazard themselues so boldlie as they durst
haue doone before, vpon hope of such starting holes.
[Sidenote: The death of Arthur prince of Wales.]
[Sidenote: _Edw. Hall in Hen. 7 fol._ lv.]
When the king had thus setled things to his owne contentation and
pleasure, there suddenlie happened to him a lamentable chance. For that
noble prince Arthur, the kings first begotten sonne, after he had béene
maried to the ladie Katharine his wife, the space of fiue moneths,
departed out of this transitorie life, in his castell of Ludlow and
with great funerall obsequie was buried in the cathedrall church of
Worcester. His brother the duke of Yorke was staied from the title of
Prince by the space of a moneth, till to women it might appeare whether
the ladie Katharine wife to the said prince Arthur was conceiued with
child or not. [It is reported that this ladie Katharine thought and
feared such dolorous chance to come: for when she had imbraced hir
father, and taken hir leaue of hir noble and prudent mother, and sailed
towards England, she was continuallie so tossed and tumbled hither and
thither with boisterous winds, that what for the rage of the water, and
contrarietie of the winds, hir ship was prohibited diuerse times to
approach the shore and take land.]
[Sidenote: An. Reg. 18.]
[Sidenote: 1503.]
[Sidenote: King Henrie the seauenths chapell at Westminster first
builded.]
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