[1] [2] [3] Thus was the duchie of Aquitaine, which had con|tinued in the English possession,Aquitaine l [...]t. from the yeare of our Lord 1155, vnto this present yeare, which is neere hand thrée hundred yeares, by the mariage of Elenor daughter and heire to William duke of Aquitaine, wife to king Henrie the second, finallie reduced and brought againe to the French obedience and serui|tude. Within that onlie duchie be foure archbishops, foure and twentie bishops,The dignitie and state of that duke|dome. fifteene earledomes, two hundred and two baronies, and aboue a thousand cap|teinships and baliffewikes: whereby ye may consi|der, what a losse this was to the realme of England. On the thirteenth daie of October this yeare, was the quéene deliuered at Westminster of a faire sonne,The quéene deliuered of hir son prince Edward. who was christened, and named Edward.