[1] [2] After this solemne feast ended, a great aid and subsidie was granted for the continuance of the con|quest in France, and so therevpon monie was gathe|red, and men were prepared in euerie citie, towne, and countrie. During which businesse,The duke of Excester di|eth. Thomas duke of Excester, great vncle to the king, a right sage and [page 596] discréet councellor, departed out of this mortall life, at his manor of Gréenewich, and with all funerall pompe was conueied through London to Berrie, and there buried. ¶ In the same yeare also died the ladie Elizabeth, halfe sister to the same duke, and of the whole bloud with king Henrie the fourth, maried first to the lord Iohn Holland, duke of Excester, and after to the lord Fanhope, buried at the blacke friers of London.