Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king began not a little to muse at this re|quest, and not without cause: for in deed it touched him somewhat neere, sith this Edmund was sonne to Roger earle of March, sonne to the ladie Philip, daughter of Lionell duke of Clarence, the third sonne of king Edward the third; which Edmund at king Richards going into Ireland, was proclamed heire apparant to the crowne and realme, whose aunt called Elianor, the lord Henrie Persie had married; and therefore king Henrie could not well heare, that anie man should be earnest about the aduancement of that linage. The king when he had studied on the matter, made answer, that the earle of March was not taken prisoner for his cause, nor in his seruice, but willinglie suffered himselfe to be taken, bicause he would not withstand the attempts of Owen Glendouer, and his complices, & therefore he would neither ransome him, nor reléeue him.
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1 The Persies
with this answer and fraudulent ex|cuse were not a little fumed, insomuch that Henrie Hotspur said openlie:
Behold,The saieng of the L. Persie. the heire of the relme is robbed of his
right, and yet the robber with his owne will not redeeme him. So in this furie the Persies departed, minding
nothing more than to depose king Henrie from the high type of his roial|tie, and to place in his seat their
cousine Edmund earle of Mar [...]h, whom they did not onlie deliuer out of captiuitie,
The conspi|racies of the Persies with Owen Glen|douer. An indenture tripartite.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This was doone (as some haue said) through a foo|lish credit giuen to a vaine prophesie,A vaine pro|phesie. as though king Henrie was the moldwarpe, curssed of Gods owne mouth, and they three were the dragon, the lion, and the woolfe, which should diuide this realme betweene them. Su [...]h is the deuiation (saith Hall) and not diui|nation of those blind and fantasticall dreames of the Welsh prophe [...]iers. King Henrie not knowing of EEBO page image 522 this new confederacie, and nothing lesse minding than that which after happened, gathered a great ar|mie to go againe into Wales, whereof the earle of Northumberland and his sonne were aduertised by the earle of Worcester,The Persies raise their powers. and with all diligence raised all the power they could make, and sent to the Scots which before were taken prisoners at Homeldon, for aid of men, promising to the earle of Dowglas the towne of Berwike,They craue aid of Scots. and a part of Northumberland, and to other Scotish lords, great lordships and seig|niories, if they obteined the vpper hand. The Scots in hope of gaine, and desirous to be reuenged of their old greefes, came to the earle with a great companie well appointed.