[1] [2] When the king had thus setled things to his owne contentation and pleasure, there suddenlie happened to him a lamentable chance. For that noble prince Arthur, the kings first begotten sonne, after he had béene maried to the ladie Katharine his wife,The death of Arthur prince of Wales. the space of fiue moneths, departed out of this transito|rie life, in his castell of Ludlow, and with great fune|rall obsequie was buried in the cathedrall church of Worcester. His brother the duke of Yorke was stai|ed from the title of Prince by the space of a moneth, till to women it might appeare whether the ladie Ka|tharine wife to the said prince Arthur was conceiued with child or not. [It is reported that this ladie Ka|tharine thought and feared such dolorous chance to come: for when she had imbraced hir father, Edw. Hall i [...] Hen. 7. fol. [...]. and ta|ken hir leaue of hir noble and prudent mother, and sailed towards England, she was continuallie so tossed and tumbled hither and thither with boisterous winds, that what for the rage of the water, and con|trarietie of the winds, hir ship was prohibited di|uerse times to approach the shore and take land.]