[1] But yet I find in other authors, that in this iour|nie king Henrie did not greatlie preuaile against his enimies, but rather lost manie of his men of warre, both horssemen and footmen: for by his seuere proceeding against them, he rather made them more eger to séeke reuenge, than quieted them in any tu|mult. They tooke the castell of Cardigan, Ger. Dor. Ran. Cogge. Cardigan ca|stell wonne by the Welshmen. and in be|sieging of Briges, the king was in no small danger of his life: for one of the enimies shooting directlie at him, had persed him through the bodie, if Hubert de Saint Clere conestable of Colchester,Hubert de S. Clere conesta|ble of Colche|ster. perceiuing the arrow comming, had not thrust himselfe betwixt the king and the same arrow, and so preseruing his maister, receiued the stripe himselfe, whereof he died presentlie after, beséeching the king to be good lord to one onelie daughter which he had, whome the king bestowed in mariage vpon William de Langualée,William de Langualée. togither with hir fathers inheritance, which William begat of hir a sonne that bare both his name and surname. ¶A president of gratitude & thankfulnes is here committed to memorie. And surelie the king could doo no lesse, than some way requite the ventu|rous courage and hartie zeale of the gentleman, who with the losse of his owne life preserued the king, if not from death, yet from some dangerous wound that might haue put him to extreame anguish and paine. This may incite men to be mindfull of bene|fits receiued, a vertue no lesse rare than the contra|rie is common, and as one saith,

—inueniuntur

Quidam sed rari, acceptorum qui meritorum

Assiduè memores, &c.