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HENRIE THE FIFT, PRINCE OF WALES,
sonne and heire to Henrie the fourth.
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A copie of the said déed.
A copie of the said letters patents.
A copie of that writing sundrie waies so well seruing to the truth of the storie was thought right necessarie héere to be added, thus.
The truth of the said memorable feat as it was reported in writing.
The oth of the duke of Burgognie.
The same in English.
The articles & appointments of peace betwéene the realmes of England and France.
Henrie prince of Wales, son and heire to K. Henrie the fourth, borne in Walesat Monmouth on the riuer of Wie, after his father was departed, tooke vponhim the regiment of this realme of England, the twentith of March, the morrow afterproclamed king, by the name of Henrie the fift, in the yeare of the world 5375,after the birth of our sauior, by our account 1413, the third of the emperor Sigismund:the thrée and thirtith of Charles the sixt French king, and in the seuenth yeare ofgouernance in Scotland vnder Robert brother to him that (before entrance into hiskingdome 1390) had Iohn to name, which by deuise and order of the states waschanged into Robert the third, who at Rotsaie (a towne in the Iland of Got, 1406)deceassed by occasion thus. As vpon hope in this gouernor to himselfe conceiuedhow to come to the crowne, he at the castell of Falkland, latelie had famisht hiscoosine Dauid the kings elder sonne and heire (a dissolute yoong prince) yet tohis fathers excéeding sorrow, at whose deceasse the father verie carefull, and castingfor the safegard of Iames his yoonger son and heire, from Basse the rocke in a wellappointed ship, vnder charge of Henrie Saintcléere earle of Orkeneie, into Franceto his old fréend king Charles for good education and safetie this yoong princehe sent: who in the course, whether for tempest or tendernes of stomach, tookeland in Yorkeshire at Flamborrow, that after by wisedome and good considerationof the king and his councell was thought verie necessarie here to be reteined. Butby the sudden newes of this staie, the father (at supper as he sat) so stroken athart that well nie straight had he fallen downe dead, yet borne into his chamber,where for gréefe and pine within thrée daies next he deceassed. The yoong kingIames his sonne after an eightéene yeares staie, in which time he had béene welltrained in princehood, at last with right honorable marriage at saint Marie Oueriesvnto Ione daughter to the earle of Summerset, coosine vnto Henrie the sixt thenking, and with manie other high gratuities here beside was sent and set in his rule andkingdome at home.