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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 And if my priuilege could not serue him, nor he aske it for himselfe, yet sith the law committeth to me the custodie of him, I may require it for him, ex|cept the law giue a child a gardian onelie for his goods and lands, discharging him of the cure and safe kéeping of his bodie, for which onelie both lands and goods serue.This that is heere betwéen this marke (*) & this marke (*) was not writ [...]ẽ by him in English but is translated out of this hi|storie which he wrote in Latine. (*) And if examples be sufficient to ob|teine priuilege for my child, I need not farre to séeke. For in this place in which we now be (and which is now in question whether my child may take benefit of it) mine other sonne now king was borne, and kept in his cradle, and preserued to a more prospe|rous fortune, which I praie God long to continue. And as all you know, this is not the first time that I haue taken sanctuarie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 For when my lord my husband was banished, and thrust out of his kingdome, I fled hither, being great with child, and héere I bare the prince. And when my lord my husband returned safe againe, and had the victorie, then went I hence to welcome him home, and from hence I brought my babe the prince vnto his father, when he first tooke him in his armes. And I praie God that my sonnes palace may be as great safegard vnto him now reigning, as this place was sometime to the kings enimie. In which place I in|tend to kéepe his brother, sith, &c. (*) Wherefore héere intend I to keepe him, sith mans law serueth the gardian to kéepe the infant.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The law of nature will the moother to keepe his child, Gods law priuilegeth the sanctuarie, and the sanctuarie my sonne, sith I feare to put him in the protectors hands that hath his brother alreadie, and were (if both failed) inheritour to the crowne. The cause of my feare hath no man to doo to examine. And yet feare I no further than the law feareth, which (as learned men tell me) forbiddeth euerie man the custodie of them, by whose death he maie inherit lesse land than a kingdome. I can no more, but whosoeuer he be that breaketh this holie sanctuarie, I praie God shortlie send him néed of sanctuarie, when he maie not come to it. For ta|ken out of sanctuarie would I not my mortall eni|mie were.

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