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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
Snippet: 257 of 1201 (1587, Volume 6, p. 834)

In the capitulation it was expressed, that Tor|naie should remaine to the king of England,The [...] of the capitu|lation for peace. to whom the French king should paie six hundred thou|sand crownes, and that in such sort of distribution, that the French king should make paiment of an hundred thousand franks euerie yeare, vntill the full paiment was satisfied: that they should be bound to defend their estates mutuallie and reciprocallie with ten thousand footmen if the warre went by land, and with six thousand onelie if the warre were made by sea: that the French king should be bound to serue the king of England in all his affaires with twelue hundred lances, and the king of England likewise to minister to his seruices with ten thousand foot|men: the expenses to be defraied by either of them that should haue néed of the men: both the one and the other of them named the Scotish king, the arch|duke, & the empire: but Cesar and the king catholike were not named: the Swizzers had a nomination, but it bare a condition, that whosoeuer would defend against the French king, the estate of Millan, Ge|nes, or Ast, should be excluded out of the nomination.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
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This peace, which was made with a woonderfull readinesse,The French king marri [...] the ladie M [...]rie sister to the king of Eng|land. was confirmed by the marriage of the kings sister of England with the French king, vn|der condition, that he should acknowledge to haue receiued foure hundred thousand crownes for hir dowrie: the contract or handfastings were made in England, where the king catholiks ambassador was not in presence, for the great hatred the king of England bare to the king his maister. And euen vp|on the conclusion and resolution of this peace, came to the court of France the instrument of ratificati|on which Cesar had made, togither with his commis|sion, and the king catholiks, for conclusion of the marriage that was solicited betweene Ferdinando de Austrich and the second daughter of France not yet foure yeares of age: but the practise of that mar|riage vanished presentlie by reason of the peace that was now established: and the French king to satis|fie better the king of England, gaue order that the duke of Suffolke, capteine generall of the lance-knights that were in his paie, should depart the do|minions of France, in whome the honours and re|compenses EEBO page image 835 that the king made to him ouercame all occasions of discontentment, the bountie and libera|litie of the one being no greater than the affabiliti [...] and disposition of the other.]

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In December, one Richard Hun a merchant tai|lor of London,

Richard Hun [...]nged in [...]ollards [...].

[...] Edw. Hall H. [...]. fol. l, li, [...].

that was laid in Lollards tower by commandement of the bishop of London, called Ri|chard Fitz Iames, and his chancellor doctor Horssie, was found dead, hanging by the necke in a girdle of silke within the said tower. That ye maie vnder|stand the cause of his imprisonment, the beginning was this. The same Hun had a child that died in his house, being an infant; the curat claimed the bearing shéet for a mortuarie. Hun answered, that the infant had no propertie in the shéet. Wherevpon, the préest ascited him in the spirituall court. He taking to him counsell, sued the curat in a premunire: and when this was knowne, meanes was found, that Hun being accused of heresie, was attached, and laid in Lollards tower, where he was found dead, as ye haue heard. Much adoo was made about his death, for the bishop and the chancellor said, that he hanged himselfe.

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