[1] The second of October in the afternoone, and on the morrow in the sorenoone, was a solemne obse|quie at Paules church in London, for Ferdinando late emperor departed. ¶Of this emperor it is said, that lieng sicke, Ex Schardio. and so sicke that Zichard a precher of his court then present could not hold him vp: how|beit comming at last to himselfe and somewhat in recouerie,Ferdinand foretelleth the verie vtter|most daie of his own death. he said to the standers by; You thought that I would neuer come againe, naie mine houre is not so soone: I doo certeinlie know that I shall not die before Whitsuntide. Now when he had liued till that daie, and eight daies after, as hauing the verie time of his departure told him by secret reuelation, (and satisfied at full touching the request that Dauid made to God about the length of his life, saieng:

Lord let me know mine end and the number of daies, that I may be [...]tified how long I haue to liue. Da mihi nosse meae quae sint stata tempora vitae,

Et quando vltima sint fata futura mihi)

he said to them that were about him: It is the holie ghosts pleasure that I should not die before saint Iames tide, that as he was a pilgrime among vs, so I with him should passe my pilgrimage out of this my natiue countrie. After which words spoken, his disease grew to greater force and sharpnesse, inso|much that at last, euen at the verie time prefixed, namelie S. Iames daie, he departed this life, after he had liued sixtie yeares, nine moneths, and od daies. He gouerned the empire aboue the space of seauen yeares,The goodlie [...] male and female that God gaue Ferdinand. & had to wife Anne queene of Hun|garie and Boheme, by whom he had fiftéene children, some male; namelie, Maximilian, Ferdinand, Iohn and Charles: also eleuen females; to wit, Elisabeth married to Sigismund king of Poland, Anne, Ma|rie, Mawdline, Catharine, Elenor, Margarite, Bar|bare, Ursule, Helen, and Ione. He is commended for his carefulnesse, his watchfulnesse, his bountiful|nesse, his gentlenesse, his vprightnesse, his discréet|nesse, his peaceablenesse, and other qualities, wherin he had a kind of singularitie. And thus much of him by waie of praise, as I found it readie to my hand.]