[1] The sicknesse which held the king dailie more and more increasing,150 [...] [...]. 24. he well perceiued that his end drew néere, and therefore meaning to doo some high plea|sure to his people, granted of his frée motion a gene|rall pardon to all men, for all offenses doone & com|mitted against anie his lawes or statutes; théeues, murtherers, & certeine other were excepted. He pai|ed also the fées of all prisoners in the gaoles in and a|bout London, abiding there onelie for that dutie. He paied also the debts of all such persons as laie in the counters or Ludgate for fourtie shillings, & vn|der; and some he reléeued that were condemned in ten pounds. Hervpon were processions generallie v|sed euerie daie in euerie citie and parish, to praie to almightie God for his restoring to health and long continuance of the same. Neuerthelesse, he was so [...] with his long maladie,The death of King Henrie the seuenth. that nature could no [...] his life, and so he departed out of this [...] two and twentith of Aprill, in his palace of [...], in the yéere of our Lord 1509. His corpse [...] conueied with all funerall pompe to West| [...]t [...]r, and there buried by the good queene his wife [...] sumptuous chapell, which he not long before had [...] to be builded.