The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 763)

¶ This did he,

Abr. Flem. ex subsequentib.

See the histo|rie of Englãd pag. 124.

See also D. Powels histo|rie of Wales, pag. 2, and 376, 377, &c.

that he might the more roiallie go|uerne his kingdome, which he obteined and inioied as a thing by God elected and prouided, and by his e|speciall fauour and gratious aspect compassed and at|chiued. Insomuch that men commonlie report that seauen hundred nintie & seauen yéeres passed, it was by a heauenlie voice reuealed to Cadwalader last king of Britains, that his stocke & progenie should reigne in this land & beare dominion againe. Where|vpon most men were persuaded in their owne opini|on, that by this heauenlie voice he was prouided & or|deined long before to inioy & obteine this kingdome. Which thing K. Henrie the sixt did also shew before,Sée before in Edward the fourth, pag. 678. as it were by propheticall inspiration, at such time as the earle of Penbroke presented the said Henrie (at that time a proper child) vnto Henrie the sixt, whome after he had beheld, and a good while viewed the come|linesse of his countenance, and orderlie lineaments of his bodie, he said to such peeres as stood about him: Lo, suerlie this is he, to whome both we and our ad|uersaries, leauing the possession of all things, shall hereafter giue roome and place: & so it came to passe by the appointment of God, to whose gouernement, gift, and disposing, all realmes and all dominions are subiect, as king Dauid confesseth, saieng:

Omnia sunt regno subdita regna Dei.Gu. Ha. in psal. 103. ]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now although by this meanes all things séemed to be brought in good and perfect order, yet there lac|ked a wrest to the harpe, to set all the strings in a monocord and perfect tune, which was the matrimo|nie to be finished betweene the king and the ladie E|lizabeth, daughter to king Edward. Which like a good prince, according to his oth, & promise, he did both so|lemnize & consummate shortlie after, that is to saie, on the eightéenth daie of Ianuarie.King Henrie the seuenth ta|keth to wife Elizabeth el|dest daughter of Edward the fourth. By reason of which marriage, peace was thought to descend out of heauen into England, considering that the lines of Lancaster and Yorke were now brought into one knot, and connexed togither, of whose two bodies one heire might succeed to rule and inioie the whole mo|narchie and realme of England, which before was rent and diuided into factions & partakings, where|by manie a mans life was lost, great spoiles made of peoples goods, wast of wealth, worship, and honor, all which ended in this blessed and gratious conne|xion, authorised by God, as our Anglorum praelia saith:

Hoc Deus omnipotens pacis confecerat author,In Hen. 7.

Ciuilísque habuit tandem contentio finem.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Shortlie after,Yeomen of the gard first brought in. for the better preseruation of his roiall person, he constituted and ordeined a certeine number, as well of archers, as of diuerse other per|sons, hardie, strong, and actiue to giue dailie atten|dance on his person, whom he named yeomen of his gard, which president men thought that he learned of the French king when he was in France. For it is not remembred, that anie king of England before that daie vsed anie such furniture of dailie souldiers. ¶ In this same yéere a new kind of sickenes inuaded suddenlie the people of this land, passing through the same from the one end to the other. It began about the one and twentith of September, and continued vntill the latter end of October, being so sharpe and deadlie, that the like was neuer heard of to anie mans remembrance before that time.