[1] [2] When the lord Stanleie saw the good will and glad|nesse of the people,The lord Stanleie set|teth y^ [...] crowne on king Hen|ries head. he tooke the crowne of king Ri|chard which was found amongst the spoile in the field, and set it on the earles head; as though he had béene elected king by the voice of the people, as in ancient times past in diuerse realmes it hath beene accusto|med: and this was the first signe and token of his good lucke and felicitie. ¶I must put you here in re|membrance, how that king Richard (putting some diffidence in the lord Stanleie) had with him as an hostage the lord Strange, his eldest sonne, which lord Stanleie (as ye haue heard before) ioined not at the first with his sonne in lawes armie, for feare the king would haue slaine the lord Strange his heire.