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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 17 of 24: The historie of king Edward the fift, and king Richard the third vnfinished, written by maister Thomas More then one of the vnder shiriffes of London, about the yeare of our Lord 1513, accor|ding to a copie of his owne hand, printed among his other workes.
Snippet: 41 of 157 (1587, Volume 6, p. 716)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the king approched néere to the citie, Ed|mund Shaw goldsmith, then maior, with William White, and Iohn Matthew shiriffes, and all the other aldermen in scarlet, with fiue hundred horsse of the citizens, in violet, receiued him reuerentlie at Har|nesie;The kings comming to London. and riding from thence accompanied him in|to the citie, which he entered the fourth daie of Maie, the first and last yeare of his reigne. But the duke of Glocester bare him in open sight so reuerentlie to the prince, with all semblance of lowlinesse, that from the great obloquie in which he was so late before, he was suddenlie fallen in so great trust, that at the councell next assembled he was made the onelie man, chosen and thought most meet to be protector of the king and his realme,The duke of Glocester made protec|tor. so that (were it destinie or were it fol|lie) the lambe was betaken to the woolfe to kéepe.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 17 of 24: The historie of king Edward the fift, and king Richard the third vnfinished, written by maister Thomas More then one of the vnder shiriffes of London, about the yeare of our Lord 1513, accor|ding to a copie of his owne hand, printed among his other workes.
Snippet: 42 of 157 (1587, Volume 6, p. 716)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At which councell also, the archbishop of Yorke chancellor of England, which had deliuered vp the great seale to the queene, was thereof greatlie re|prooued, and the seale taken from him, and deliuered to doctor Russell bishop of Lincolne, a wise man and a good, and of much experience,The bishop [...] Lincolne made lord chancellor. and one of the best learned men vndoubtedlie that England had in his time. Diuerse lords and knights were appointed vn|to diuerse roomes. The lord chamberleine and some o|ther kept still their offices that they had before. Now all were it so that the protector so sore thirsted for the finishing of that he had begun, that thought euerie daie a yeare till it were atchiued; yet durst he no fur|ther EEBO page image 717 attempt, as long as he had but halfe his preie in his hand.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 17 of 24: The historie of king Edward the fift, and king Richard the third vnfinished, written by maister Thomas More then one of the vnder shiriffes of London, about the yeare of our Lord 1513, accor|ding to a copie of his owne hand, printed among his other workes.
Snippet: 43 of 157 (1587, Volume 6, p. 717)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And why? Well did he wéet, that if he deposed the one brother, all the realme would fall to the other, if he either remained in sanctuarie, or should happilie be shortlie conueied to his fathers libertie. Wherfore incontinent at the next méeting of the lords at the councell, [...] protec| [...]ors oration. he proposed to them, that it was a heinous déed of the quéene, & procéeding of great malice to|ward the kings councellors, that she should kéepe in sanctuarie the kings brother from him, whose speci|all pleasure & comfort were to haue his brother with him. And that by hir doone to none other intent, but to bring all the lords in obloquie and murmur of the people.

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