[1] [2] The earle of Penbroke tooke this child, being his nephue, out of the custodie of the ladie Herbert, and at his returne brought the child with him to London to king Henrie the sixt,The saieng of king Henrie the sixt, of Henrie of Richmond after king Henrie the seuenth. whome when the king had a good while beheld, he said to such princes as were with him: Lo, suerlie this is he, to whom both we and our aduersaries leauing the possession of all things shall hereafter giue roome and place. So this holie man shewed before the chance that should happen, that this earle Henrie so ordeined by God, should in time to come (as he did indéed) haue and inioy the kingdome and whole rule of this realme of England. ¶So that it might seeme probable by the coherence of holie Henries predictions with the issue falling out in truth with the same; Ab. Flem that for the time he was indued with a propheticall spirit. And suerlie the epithet or ti|tle of holie is not for naught attributed vnto him, for it is to be read in writers, that he was by nature gi|uen to peaceablenesse, abhorring bloud and slaugh|ter, detesting ciuill tumults, addicted to deuotion, ve|rie frequent in praier, and not esteeming so highlie of courtlie gallantnesse as stood with the dignitie of a prince. In consideration wherof, he procured against himselfe an apostasie of his people both natiue and forren; who reuolted and fell from fealtie. And whie? The reason is rendred by the same writer, namelie:

Quòd tales homines populus sceleratior odit,

Fastidit, detestatur: non conuenit inter

Virtutem & vitium, lucem fugêre tenebrae.]