[1] But now to returne to the course of this historie. Were it that the duke of Glocester had of old fore|minded this conclusion, or was now at erst therevn|to mooued, and put in hope by the occasion of the ten|der age of the yoong princes, his nephues (as opportu|nitie & likelihood of spéed putteth a man in courage of that he neuer intended) certeine it is that he con|triued their destruction, with the vsurpation of the regall dignitie vpon himselfe. And forsomuch as he well wist and holpe to mainteine a long continued grudge and heart-burning betwéene the quéens kin|red and the kings bloud, either partie enuieng others authoritie, he now thought that their diuision should be (as it was in déed) a furtherlie beginning to the pursuit of his intent.