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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 13 of 24: Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued.
Snippet: 52 of 197 (1587, Volume 6, p. 518)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 It was not inough that K. Henrie was thus trou|bled now in the first yere of his reigne, with ciuill sedition, and the couert practises of Frenchmen; but that the Scots also tooke vpon them to make open warre against him:George earle of March fleeth into England. it chanced (as in the Scotish chronicles more at large appeareth) that George of Dunbar, earle of the marches of Scotland, being in displeasure with Robert king of Scots, fled into England, to Henrie earle of Northumberland, wher|vpon the Scotish king depriued him of all his digni|ties and possessions, and caused his goods to be confis|cate, and after wrote to the king of England, requi|ring him if he would haue the truce anie longer to continue, either to deliuer into his possession the earle of March and other traitors to his person, or else to banish them out of his realmes and dominions. King Henrie discréetly answerd the herald of Scot|land, that the words of a prince ought to be kept:The answer of king Hen|rie to the Scotish am|bassadors. and his writings and seale to be inuiolate: and conside|ring that he had granted a safe conduct to the earle and his companie, he should neither without cause reasonable breake his promise, nor yet deface his ho|nor. Which answer declared to the king of Scots,

Open warre proclamed by the king of Scots a|gainst Eng|land.

Thom. Wal [...].

he incontinentlie proclaimed open warre against the king of England, with fire and sword. Herevpon, one sir Robert Logon, a Scotish knight, with cer|teine ships well appointed for the warre, meant to haue destroied the English fléet that was come on the coasts of Scotland, about Aberd [...]n, to fish there: but (as it chanced) he met with certeine ships of Lin, that fought with him, and tooke him priso|ner, with the residue of his companie,Robert L [...]|gon taken pri|soner. so that he quite failed of his purpose, and came to the losse himselfe.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 13 of 24: Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued.
Snippet: 53 of 197 (1587, Volume 6, p. 518)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At the same time,The Iles of Orkenie spoiled by Englishmen. Mortalitie of people. the Englishmen spoiled also cer|teine of the Iles of Orkeneie. This summer, great death chanced in this land, manie dieng of the pesti|lence, wherewith sundrie places were infected. King Henrie perceiuing that policie oftentimes preuen|teth perill, and vnderstanding the naughtie purpo|ses of the Scots, gathered a great armie,King Henrie inuadeth Scotland. and entred into Scotland, burning townes, villages, and ca|stels, with a great part of the townes of Eden|burgh and Léeth, and besieged the castell of Eden|burgh in the end of September, whereof was cap|teine Dauid duke of Rothsaie,The duke of Rothsaie. and a prince of the realme, with Archembald earle of Dowglas, hauing with them manie hardie men of warre. Robert duke of Albanie,The duke of Albanie. that was appointed gouernour of the realme, because the king was sicke and not méet to rule, sent an herald vnto king Henrie, promising him battell within six daies at the furthest, Anno Reg. [...], if he would so long tarrie, which king Henrie promised to doo right gladlie, and gaue to the herald for bringing him so acceptable newes, a gowne of silke, and a cheine of gold. But king Henrie staied six daies, and sixtéene too, without hearing any word of the gouernors com|ming. Then the winter beginning to wax cold, and foule weather still increasing, caused the king to breake vp his siege, and so returned without battell or skirmish offered.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 13 of 24: Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued.
Snippet: 54 of 197 (1587, Volume 6, p. 518)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the meane time that the king was thus in Scotland,

King Henrie returneth home.

The Scots burne in Nor|thumberland. Iusts at Yorke.

the Scots made a rode into Northumber|land, and burned diuerse townes in Bamburrough shire. At the kings comming backe to Yorke, there were two strangers, the one a Frenchman, and the other an Italian, requiring to accomplish certeine feats of armes, against sir Iohn Cornewall, and Ia|nico de Artois. Their request was granted, and the strangers were put to the woorst, whereby sir Iohn Cornewall obteined the kings fauour so farre foorth,Sir Iohn Cornewall marrieth the kings sister. that he married the kings sister, the widow of Iohn Holland, earle of Huntington. Yet some said, that the knight and the countesse were agréed aforehand, without the kings consent. In the kings absence, whilest he was foorth of the realme in Scotland a|gainst his enimies,The Welsh|men rebell by the setting [...] of Owen Glendouer. the Welshmen tooke occasion to rebell vnder the conduct of their capteine Owen Glendouer, dooing what mischeefe they could deuise, vnto their English neighbours. This Owen Glen|douer was sonne to an esquier of Wales, Iohn Stow. Owen Glen|douer what he was. named Griffith Uichan: he dwelled in the parish of Con|waie, within the countie of Merioneth in North|wales, in a place called Glindourwie, which is as much to saie in English, as The vallie by the side of the water of Dée, by occasion whereof he was sur|named Glindour Dew.

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