[Whan staruedOwenhad ended his hungry exhortation, it was well enough liked, howbeit one founde a doubte[552]worth the mouing, and that concerning this title, earle ofMarch: for as it appeareth, there were three men of three diuers nations together in one time entituled by that honour: first syrEdmund Mortimer, whomOwenkept in pryson, anEnglishman: the second the lordGeorgeofDunbar, a valiauntScot, banished out of his countrey, and well esteemed ofHenrythe fouerth: the thirde lordIamesofBourbon, aFrenchman, sent by theFrencheking to helpOwen Glendour.
[Whan staruedOwenhad ended his hungry exhortation, it was well enough liked, howbeit one founde a doubte[552]worth the mouing, and that concerning this title, earle ofMarch: for as it appeareth, there were three men of three diuers nations together in one time entituled by that honour: first syrEdmund Mortimer, whomOwenkept in pryson, anEnglishman: the second the lordGeorgeofDunbar, a valiauntScot, banished out of his countrey, and well esteemed ofHenrythe fouerth: the thirde lordIamesofBourbon, aFrenchman, sent by theFrencheking to helpOwen Glendour.
These three men had this title all at once, which caused him to aske how it was true that euery one of these could bee earle ofMarch: whereto was answered, that euery countrey hathMarchesbelonging vnto them, and those so large, that they were earledomes, and the lords thereof entituled thereby: so the[553]lordEdmund Mortimerwas earle ofMarchinEngland, lordIamesofBurbon, of theMarchesofFraunce, and lordeGeorgeofDunbar, earle of theMarchesinScotland. For otherwise neyther coulde haue interest in other’s title. This doubt thus dissolued, maisterFerrerssayde: “If no man haue affection to thePercies, let vs passe the times both ofHenrythe fourth and the fift, and come toHenrythe sixt, in whose time fortune (as shee doth in the minority of princes) bare a great stroke among the nobles. And yet inHenrythe fourth’s time are examples which I would wish,Baldewine, that you should not forget, as the conspiracy made by the byshop ofYorke, and the lordMowbrey, sonne of him whome you late treated of, pricked forwarde by the earle ofNorthumberland, father to sirHenry Hotspur,who fled himselfe, but his parteners were apprehended and put to death, withBaintonandBlinkinsops, which could not see theyr duty to theyr king, but tooke parte withPercy, that banished rebell.†As hee was proceding, hee was desired to stay by one which had pondered the story of thePercies, who briefly sayde: “To the end,Baldwine, that you may knowe what to say of thePercies, whose story is not all out of memory (and is a notable story) I will take vpon mee the person of the lordHenry Percy,[554]earle ofNorthumberland, father of sir[555]Henry Hotspur, in whose behalfe this may be sayd as followeth.â€][556]