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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 19 of 24: Henrie the seauenth, sonne to Ed|mund earle of Richmond, which Edmund was brother by the moothers side to Henrie the sixt.
Snippet: 81 of 277 (1587, Volume 6, p. 771)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Henrie sore troubled in his mind therwith, determining no more with peaceable messages, but with open warre to determine all controuersies be|twixt him and the French king, called his high court of parlement,A parlement wherin king Henrie ope|neth the iust cause of ma|king warres against France. and there declared the cause why hée was iustlie prouoked to make warre against the Frenchmen: and therefore desired them of their be|neuolent aid of men and monie toward the mainte|nance therof. The cause was so iust, that euerie man allowed it; and to the setting foorth of the war taken in hand for so necessarie an occasion, euerie man pro|mised his helping hand. The king commended them for their true and faithfull hearts. And to the intent that he might spare the poorer sort of the common [...] (whome he euer desired to kéepe in fauor) he thought good first to exact monie of the richest sort by waie of a beneuolence.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 19 of 24: Henrie the seauenth, sonne to Ed|mund earle of Richmond, which Edmund was brother by the moothers side to Henrie the sixt.
Snippet: 82 of 277 (1587, Volume 6, p. 771)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Which kind of leuieng monie was first deuised by king Edward the fourth,

Who first de| [...]ed the exacti|on of monie called a bene|uolence.

Sée pag. 694.

as it appeareth before in his historie. King Henrie following the like example, published abroad, that by their open gifts he would measure and search their beneuolent hearts and good minds toward him, so that he that gaue most, should be iudged to be his most louing fréend; and he that gaue little, to be esteemed according to his gift. By this it appeareth, that whatsoeuer is practised for the EEBO page image 772 princes profit, and brought to a president by matter of record, maie be turned to the great preiudice of the people, if rulers in authoritie will so adiudge and determine it. But by this means king Henrie got innumerable great summes of monie, with some grudge of the people, for the extremitie shewed by the commissioners in diuers places.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 19 of 24: Henrie the seauenth, sonne to Ed|mund earle of Richmond, which Edmund was brother by the moothers side to Henrie the sixt.
Snippet: 83 of 277 (1587, Volume 6, p. 772)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 1491.Ye haue heard before, how the lord of Rauenstein, by the aid of Bruges & Gant, had taken the towne and two castels of Sluis, which he kept against his souereigne lord Maximilian, and getting into the ha|uen certeine ships and barks, robbed, spoiled, & tooke prisoners the ships and vessels of all nations that passed alongest by that coast, towards the mart at Antwerpe, or into anie part of Brabant, Zeland, or Friseland, and was euer sufficientlie vittelled out of France and Picardie. There was a little towne also two miles from Bruges towards the sea, called Dam, which was a bulworke to Bruges, and an hed|spring to Sluis. The king of Romans had attemp|ted the wining of this towne diuers times, but mis|sed his purpose;Albert the duke of Sax|onies policie to get the towne of Dam. till at length Albert duke of Saxo|nie, a great fréend to the king of Romans, by policie found meanes to get it.

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