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
After the two kings had renewed & confirmed the league and amitie
betwixt them, king Henrie desired to haue Edmund de la Poole earle of
Suffolke to be deliuered into his hands. To whome the king of Castile
answered that he verelie was not within his dominion: and therefore it
laie not in him to deliuer him. In déed he was loth to be the author
of his death that came to him for succour, and was receiued vnder
his protection: yet vpon the earnest request and assured promise of
king Henrie (that he would pardon him of all executions and paines of
death) he granted to king Henries desire; and so incontinentlie caused
the said earle secretlie to be sent for. After this, to protract time
till he were possessed of his preie, king Henrie conueied the king of
Castile vnto the citie of London, that he might sée the head citie of
his realme.
[Sidenote: The king of Castiles vow inuiolablie kept.]
Then he led him from Bainards castell by Cheape to Barking; and so
returned by Watling stréet againe: during which time there was shot out
of the Tower a woonderfull peale of ordinance. But he would not enter
into the Tower, bicause (as ye haue heard before) he had aduowed not
to enter the fortresse of anie forren prince, in the which a garrison
was mainteined. From London the king brought him to Richmond, where
manie notable feates of armes were prooued both of tilt, turnie, and
barriers. In the meane season the erle of Suffolke, perceiuing what
hope was to be had in forreine princes, and trusting that after his
life to him once granted, king Henrie would bréeflie set him at his
full libertie, was in maner contented to returne againe into his natiue
countrie.
[Sidenote: The death & description of Philip king of Spaine.]
When all pacts and couenants betwéene the kings of England and
Castile were appointed, concluded, and agréed; king Philip tooke his
leaue of king Henrie, yéelding to him most heartie thanks for his
high chéere and princelie interteinement. And being accompanied with
diuers lords of England, he came to the citie of Excester, and so to
Falmouth in Cornewall, and there taking ship sailed into Spaine, where
shortlie after he died being thirtie yeares of age. He was of stature
conuenient, of countenance amiable, of bodie somewhat grosse, quicke
witted, bold and hardie stomached. The tempest that he suffered on the
sea was huge, and woonderfull also vpon the land, insomuch that the
violence of the wind blew downe an eagle of brasse, being set to shew
on which part the wind blew, from a pinacle or spire of Paules church,
and in the falling, the same eagle brake and battered an other eagle
that was set vp for a signe at a tauerne doore in Cheapeside.
[Sidenote: Prodigious tokens or accidents haue their issue in truth.]
[Sidenote: Sée pag. 264.]
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