The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 519)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Some authors affirme, that there was a new league concluded to continue, Hall. during the liues of both the princes. The Frenchmen diuerse times re|quired to haue some dower assigned foorth for queene Isabell,The French|men demand a dower for queéne Isa|bell. but that was at all times vtterlie denied, for that the marriage betwixt hir and king Richard was neuer consummate, by reason whereof she was not dowable. Neuerthelesse, she was shortlie after sent home, vnder the conduct of the earle of Worcester, associat with diuerse other noble and honorable per|sonages, both men and women, hauing with hir all the iewels, ornaments, and plate which she brought into England, with a great surplusage besides giuen to hir by the king.Additions of the chron. of Flanders. She is deli|uered home. She was deliuered betwixt Bul|longne and Calis, to Ualeran earle of saint Paule, the French kings lieutenant in Picardie, who being accompanied with the bishop of Chartres, the lord de Hugueuile, the ladie of Monpensier sister to the erle of March, the ladie of Lucenburgh sister to the said earle of saint Paule, & diuerse other ladies and gen|tlewomen, which receiued hir with great ioy and gladnesse, and taking leaue of the English lords and ladies, they conueied hir to the dukes of Burgognie and Burbon, that attended for hir, not far off, vpon a hill, with a great number of people.She is con|ueied to Pa|ris. They first con|ueied hir to Bullogne, & after to Abuile, from whence the duke of Orleance conueied hir to Paris, vnto the presence of the king hir father, and the queene hir mother:Hir second marriage. she was after giuen in marriage vnto Charles, sonne to Lewes duke of Orleance.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time,

Anno Reg. 3. Owen Glen|douer.

The danger of the king to haue béene de|stroied.

Owen Glendouer and his Welshmen did much hurt to the kings subiects. One night as the king was going to bed, he was in dan|ger to haue beene destroied; for some naughtie traito|rous persons had conueied into his bed a certeine iron made with smiths craft, like a caltrop, with three long prickes, sharpe and small, standing vpright, in such sort, that when he had laid him downe, & that the weight of his bodie should come vpon the bed, he should haue beene thrust in with those pricks, and per|aduenture slaine: but as God would, the king not thinking of any such thing, chanced yet to féele and perceiue the instrument before he laid him downe, and so escaped the danger. ¶Howbeit he was not so soone deliuered from feare; for he might well haue his life in suspicion, & prouide for the preseruation of the same; sith perils of death crept into his secret cham|ber, and laie lurking in the bed of downe where his bodie was to be reposed and to take rest. Oh what a suspected state therefore is that of a king holding his regiment with the hatred of his people, the hartgrud|gings of his courtiers, and the peremptorie practises of both togither? Could he confidentlie compose or setle himselfe to sleepe for feare of strangling? Durst he boldly eat and drinke without dread of poisoning? Might he aduenture to shew himselfe in great mée|tings or solemne assemblies without mistrust of mis|cheefe against his person intended? What pleasure or what felicitie could he take in his princelie pompe, which he knew by manifest and fearefull experience, to be enuied and maligned to the verie death? The state of such a king is noted by the poet in Diony|sius, as in a mirror, concerning whome it is said,

Districtus ensis cui super impia

Ceruice pendet,Hor. lib. ca. 3. Ode. 1. non Siculae dapes

Dulcem elaborabunt saporem,

Non auium cytharae cantus,

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare, the eight day of Aprill deceassed the lord Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike. In the moneth of March appeared a blasing starre,

The earle of Warwike de|parteth this life.

A blasing starre.

first be|twéene the east part of the firmament and the north, flashing foorth fire and flames round about it, and lastlie, shooting foorth fierie beams towards the north, foreshewing (as was thought) the great effusion of bloud that followed, about the parts of Wales and Northumberland. For much about the same time, Owen Glendouer (with his Welshmen) fought with the lord Greie of Ruthen, comming foorth to de|fend his possessions, which the same Owen wasted and destroied: and as the fortune of that daies worke fell out, the lord Greie was taken prisoner,The lord Greie of Ru|then taken in fight by Owẽ Glendouer. and ma|nie of his men were slaine. This hap lifted the Welshmen into high pride, and increased merue|louslie their wicked and presumptuous attempts.

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