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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 4 of 4: The thirde Booke of the Hiſtorie of Ireland, compriſing the raigne of Henry the eyght: continued by Richard Stanihurſt, and vvritten to the right honorable Sir Henrie Sidney Knight, Lord Deputie of Ireland, Lord preſident of VVales, Knight of the moſt noble order of the Garter, and one of hir Maieſties priue Counſayle within hir Realme of Englande.
Snippet: 250 of 344 (1577, Volume 3, p. 105)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This noble man was ſo well affected to his wife the Ladie Gray, as he woulde not at any tyme buy a ſute of apparell for himſelfe, but hee woulde ſute hir with the ſame ſtuffe. Whiche gentleneſſe ſhe recompenced with equall kinde|neſſe. For after that he deceaſſed in the Tower, ſhe did not only euer after liue as a chaſt and ho|nourable Vidue,The Ladie Grayes kind|neſſe to hir husband. but alſo nightly before ſhee went to bed, ſhe would reſort to his picture, and there with a ſolemne congee, ſhe woulde bid hir EEBO page image 106 Lorde goodnight. Whereby may bee gathered with howe great loue ſhee affected his perſon, that had in ſuch price his bare picture.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 4 of 4: The thirde Booke of the Hiſtorie of Ireland, compriſing the raigne of Henry the eyght: continued by Richard Stanihurſt, and vvritten to the right honorable Sir Henrie Sidney Knight, Lord Deputie of Ireland, Lord preſident of VVales, Knight of the moſt noble order of the Garter, and one of hir Maieſties priue Counſayle within hir Realme of Englande.
Snippet: 252 of 344 (1577, Volume 3, p. 106)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Giralde Ayl|mer.Maiſter Girald Aylmer, who firſt was chief Baron of the Exchequer, after chiefe Iuſtice of the Common place, was occaſioned, for certain his affayres, to repaire to the Court of Englãd. Where being for his good ſeruice greatly coun|tenanced by ſuch as were in thoſe dayes taken for the pillers of the weale publike, namely of the Lorde Crumwell it happened that through his Lordſhip his earneſt meanes, the king made maiſter Aylemer chiefe Iuſtice of his Bench in Irelande. This aduauncement diſliked by cer|taine of Waterford and Weiſeforde, that were not friended to the Gentleman, they debaced him in ſuche diſpitefull wiſe, as the Earle of Shrewſburie, who then was likewiſe Earle of Waterforde, was by theyr lewde reportes ca|ryed to chalenge the king, ſo farre as with his duetie of allegeance he durſt, for beſtowing ſo weightie an office vpon ſo light a perſon, beyng ſuch a ſimple Iohn at Stile as he tearmed him, no wiſer than Patche, the late Lord Cardinall his foole. The king herevpon expoſtulated with the Lorde Cromwell, who being throughly ac|quainted with the Gentleman his rare wiſe|dome, aunſwered, that if it woulde ſtande with his Maieſties pleaſure to enter into conference with him, hee ſhoulde bee ſure to finde him no babe, notwithſtanding the wrong informati|ons of ſuche as laboured to thwart or croſſe hym. Whereto the King vpon further leyſure agreed, and ſhortly after according to his pro|miſe, beſtowed two or three houres with mai|ſter Aylemer, who vpon the Lorde Cromwell his forewarning, was ſo wel armed for his high|neſſe, as he ſhewed himſelfe in his diſcourſe, by anſwering ad omnia quare, to be a man worthie to ſupplie an office of ſo great credite.

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