Compare 1577 edition: 1 And so this king liuing all his time in fortunes fauour, in high honour, wealth and glorie, for his no|ble acts and prudent policies is woorthie to be regi|stred in the booke of fame, least time (the consumer of all worthie things) should blot out the memorie of his name here in earth, whose soule we trust liueth in heauen, enioieng the fruition of the godhead, & those pleasures prepared for the faithfull. [In memorie of whome, his manifold vertues, with the fortunat suc|cesse of his affaires, and the gratious descent of his loines, as they procured a famous report in nations farre and néere; so haue some at the contemplation of his princelinesse, and euerie waie crowned with felicitie, made memorials of his magnificence; to the immortalitie of his high praise and vnblemishable renowme: among whome (for the truth of the report iustifiable by the contents of this historie) one com|meth to mind, which may well serue for an epitaph:

Septimus Henricus factis est nomen adeptus

Praeclarum claris ventura in secula famae:

Ciuibus ille suis fuerat charissimus, hostes

Omnes iure ipsum metuebant: numinis almi

Relligiosus erat cultor, pie [...]atis & aequi,

Versutos hominésque malos vehementiùs odit.

Viginti totos charus trésque ampliùs annos

Regibus externis in summo vixit honore:

Magnanimus, iustus rex, prudens atque modestus,

Henrico haeredi moriens sua regna reliquit,

Diuitiásque, immensum argenti pondus & auri.

¶The altar and sepulture of the same king Henrie the seuenth, wherein he now resteth, Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 892. Sepulture of Henrie the se|uenth. in his new chap|pell at Westminster, was made and finished in the yeare of our Lord 1519, by one Peter T. a painter of the citie of Florence, for the which he receiued one thousand pounds sterling for the whole stuffe and workemanship, at the hands of the kings executors,Executors to Henrie the se|uenth. Richard bishop of Winchester, Richard Fitz Iames bishop of London, Thomas bishop of Duresme, Iohn bishop of Rochester, Thomas duke of Norf|folke treasuror of England, Edward earle of Wor|cester the king chamberleine, Iohn F. knight, chiefe iustice of the kings Bench, Robert R. knight, chiefe iustice of the common plees, &c.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Of learned men that liued in this kings daies (as maister Bale noteth them) these are recorded. First George Rippeleie a Carmelite frier at Boston, seene in the mathematikes, he wrote diuerse treatises, and after his decease was accounted a nekroman|cer; Iohn Erghom borne in Yorke, a blacke [...]rier, EEBO page image 798 a doctor of diuinitie professed in Oxford, studious of prophesies, as by the title of the works which he wrote it may appeare; Iohn Persiuall a Chartreux monke; Thomas Maillorie a Welshman borne, he wrote (I wote not what) of king Arthur, and of the round ta|ble; Iohn Rousse borne in Warwikeshire, a diligent searcher of antiquities, whervpon few libraries were any where to be seene in England and Wales, where he made not search for the same, and wrote sundrie treatises of historicall arguments. He deceassed at Warwike the fourtéenth of Ianuarie in the yeare 1491, and was buried in our ladie church there.