[1] The king being sore offended herewith, as he that fauoured the earle more than that he could be with|out [page 320] his companie,The kings fauour to|wards the earle of Corn|wall. threatned the lords to be reuenged for this displeasure, and ceassed not to send into Ire|land vnto Péers, comforting him both with fréend|lie messages, and rich presents, and as it were to shew that he meant to reteine him still in his fauour, he made him ruler of Ireland as his deputie there. Polydor. Fabian. The earle of Cornewall deputie of Ireland. Hen. Marle. A wonderfull matter that the king should be so inchan|ted with the said earle, and so addict himselfe, or rather fix his hart vpon a man of such a corrupt humor, a|gainst whome the heads of the noblest houses in the land were bent to deuise his ouerthrow: but the lesse maruell it is that the king bare him such a feruent affection, and set his hart vpon him, considering that

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