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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the king had thus setled things to his owne contentation and pleasure, there suddenlie happened to him a lamentable chance. For that noble prince Arthur, the kings first begotten sonne, after he had béene maried to the ladie Katharine his wife,The death of Arthur prince of Wales. the space of fiue moneths, departed out of this transito|rie life, in his castell of Ludlow, and with great fune|rall obsequie was buried in the cathedrall church of Worcester. His brother the duke of Yorke was stai|ed from the title of Prince by the space of a moneth, till to women it might appeare whether the ladie Ka|tharine wife to the said prince Arthur was conceiued with child or not. [It is reported that this ladie Ka|tharine thought and feared such dolorous chance to come: for when she had imbraced hir father, Edw. Hall i [...] Hen. 7. fol. [...]. and ta|ken hir leaue of hir noble and prudent mother, and sailed towards England, she was continuallie so tossed and tumbled hither and thither with boisterous winds, that what for the rage of the water, and con|trarietie of the winds, hir ship was prohibited di|uerse times to approach the shore and take land.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this eightéenth yeare, the twentie fourth daie of Ianuarie, Anno Reg. 1 [...] 1503 a quarter of an houre afore three of the clocke at after noone of the same daie, the first stone of our ladie chapell within the monasterie of West|minster was laid,King Henrie the seauenth [...] chapell at Westminster first builded. by the hands of Iohn Islip abbat of the same monasterie, sir Reginald Braie knight of the garter, doctor Barnes maister of the rolles, doctor Wall chapleine to the kings maiestie, mai|ster Hugh Oldham chapleine to the countesse of Darbie and Richmond the kings mother, sir Ed|ward Stanhope knight, and diuerse others. Upon the same stone was this scripture ingrauen: Illustris|simus Henricus septimus rex Angliae & Franciae, & domi|nus Hiberniae, posuit hanc petram in honore beatae virginis Mariae, 24. die Ianuarij; anno Domini 1502. Et anno dicti regis Henrici septimi, decimo octauo. The charges whereof amounted (as some report, vpon credible informati|on as they saie) to fouretéene thousand pounds.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Quéene Elizabeth lieng within the Tower of London, was brought a bed of a faire daughter on Candlemasse daie, which was there christened and named Katharine; and the eleuenth of the same mo|neth the said queene there deceased, and was buried at Westminster, whose daughter also liued but a small season after hir mother. Abr. Fl. ex [...] pag. 876. Six kings of England bre|thren with the tailors com|panie in Lo [...]|don, before they were e [...]|tituled m [...]r|chant tailors. [King Henrie the seauenth being himselfe a brother of the tailors com|panie in London, as diuerse other his predecessors kings before him had béene (to wéet Richard the third, Edward the fourth, Henrie the sixt, Henrie the fift, Henrie the fourth, and Richard the second; also of dukes eleuen, earles eight and twentie, and lords eight and fortie) he now gaue to them the name and title of merchant tailors, as a name of worship to indure for euer. This yeare,Prior of Shene m [...]|thered. about the later end of March, the prior of the Charterhouse of Shene was murthered in a cell of his owne house, by meanes of one Goodwine, a moonke of the same cloister, and his adherents artificers of London. A drie summer,A drie s [...]|mer. hauing no notable raine from Whitsuntide to the later ladie daie in haruest.

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