[1] But to returne to the princes affaires. When the fame was once spred abroad that K. Edward was fled the relme, an innumerable number of people re|sorted to the earle of Warwike to take his part, but all K. Edwards trustie fréends went to diuerse sanc|tuaries,K. Edwards fréends take sanctuarie. and amongst other his wife quéene Eliza|beth tooke sanctuarie at Westminster, and there in great penurie forsaken of all hir friends, was deli|uered of a faire son called Edward,Queéne Eli|zabeth deliue|red of a prince which was with small pompe like a poore mans child christened, the godfathers being the abbat and prior of Westmin|ster, and the godmother the ladie Scroope. Ab. Flem. [But what might be the heauinesse of this ladies hart (thinke we) vpon consideration of so manie counterblasts of vnhappinesse inwardlie conceiued? Hir husband had taken flight, his adherents and hir fréends sought to shroud themselues vnder the couert of a new protec|tor, she driuen in distresse forsooke not that simple re|fuge which hir hard hap forced vpon hir; and (a kings wife) wanted in hir necessitie such things as meane mens wines had in superfluitie, & (a corosiue to a no|ble mind) a prince of renowmed parentage was (by constreint of vnkind fortune) not vouchsafed the so|lemnitie of christendome due and decent for so hono|rable a personage.]