[1] Now fell there mischeefs thicke. And as the thing euill gotten is neuer well kept, Sir Thoma [...] More agai [...]. thorough all the time of his reigne neuer ceassed there cruell death and slaughter, till his owne destruction ended it. But as he finished his time with the best death and the most rigtehous, that is to wit, his owne; so began he with the most pitious and wicked, I meane the lamenta|ble murther of his innocent nephues, the yoong king and his tender brother: whose death and finall infor|tune hath naithelesse comen so farre in question that some remaine yet in doubt, whether they were in his daies destroied or no. Not for that onelie that Per|kin Werbecke by manie folks malice,Perkin Wer|becke. and mo folks follie, so long space abusing the world, was as well with princes as the poorer people reputed and taken for the yoonger of these two; but for that also that all things were in late daies so couertlie demeaned, one thing pretended, and an other meant.