[1] The king being sore troubled to heare such displea|sant newes, was brought into a maruelous agonie: but in the end, for the quiet of the realme and doubt of further danger to himselfe, he determined to fol|low their a [...]uise, and so when the other commissio|ners were come, and that the bishop of Hereford had declared the cause where [...] were sent, the king in presence of them all, notwithstanding his out|ward countenance discouered how much it inward|lie grieued him; yet after [...] [...]as come [...] himselfe, he answered that he [...] that he was [...] into this miserie through his owne offensed, Rich. [...] and therefore [page 341] he was contented patientlie to suffer it, but yet it could not (he said) but gréene him, that he had in such wise runne into the hatred of all his people: not|withstanding he gaue the lords most heartie thanks, that they had so forgotten their receiued iniuries,The kings answer. and ceassed not to beare so much good will towards his sonne Edward, as to wish that he might reigne ouer them. Therefore to satisfie them, sith otherwise it might not be, he vtterlie renounced his right to the kingdome, and to the whole administration thereof. And lastlie he besought the lords now in his miserie to forgiue him such offenses as he had committed against them. Ah lamentable ruine from roialtie to miserable calamitie, procured by them chéefelie that should haue beene the pillers of the kings estate, and not the hooked engins to pull him downe from his throne! So that here we see it verefied by triall, that

—miser at infoelix est etiam rex,

Nec quenquam (mihi crede) facit diadema beatum.