[1] Now to returne vnto the king, who in this meane time was verie busie to prouide all things necessa|rie to set forward on his iournie; his ships which laie in the mouth of the riuer of Saine, being readie to put off, he tooke order in manie points concerning the state of the common-wealth on that side, and chéefelie he called to mind, that it should be a thing necessarie for him, to name who should succeed him in the kingdome of England, if his chance should not be to returne againe from so long and dange|rous a iournie. Matt. Wes [...]. He therefore named (as some suppose) his nephue Arthur, the sonne of his brother Geffrey duke of Britaine, to be his successour in the king|dome, a y [...]ng man of a likelie proofe and princelie towardne [...]e, but not ordeined by God to succéed o|uer this kingdome.