[1] Now although by this meanes all things séemed to be brought in good and perfect order, yet there lac|ked a wrest to the harpe, to set all the strings in a monocord and perfect tune, which was the matrimo|nie to be finished betweene the king and the ladie E|lizabeth, daughter to king Edward. Which like a good prince, according to his oth, & promise, he did both so|lemnize & consummate shortlie after, that is to saie, on the eightéenth daie of Ianuarie.King Henrie the seuenth ta|keth to wife Elizabeth el|dest daughter of Edward the fourth. By reason of which marriage, peace was thought to descend out of heauen into England, considering that the lines of Lancaster and Yorke were now brought into one knot, and connexed togither, of whose two bodies one heire might succeed to rule and inioie the whole mo|narchie and realme of England, which before was rent and diuided into factions & partakings, where|by manie a mans life was lost, great spoiles made of peoples goods, wast of wealth, worship, and honor, all which ended in this blessed and gratious conne|xion, authorised by God, as our Anglorum praelia saith:

Hoc Deus omnipotens pacis confecerat author,In Hen. 7.

Ciuilísque habuit tandem contentio finem.