[By that this was ended, I had found out the story ofRichardearle ofCambridge: and because it contained matter in it, though not very notable, yet for the better vnderstanding of the rest, I thought it meete to touch it, and therefore saide as followeth: “You haue saide well of thePerciesand fauourably; for in deede, as it should appeare, the chiefe cause of their conspiracy against kingHenry, was forEdmund Mortimertheir cousin’s sake, whome the king very maliciously proclaymed to haue yeelded him selfe toOwencoulourably, when, as in deede, hee was taken forcibly against his will and very cruelly ordered in prison. And seeing wee are in hand withMortimer’smatter, I will take vpon mee the person ofRichard Plantagenet, earle ofCambridge, who for his sake likewise died. And therefore I let passeEdmund Holland, earle ofKent, whomeHenrythe fourth made admirall to scoure the seas, because theBritaynswere abroad. Which earle (as many thinges happen in war) was slaine with an arrowe at the assaulte ofBriacke:[586]shortly after whose death this king died, and his sonneHenrythe fift of that name, succeded in his place. In the beginning of thisHenrythe fifte’s raigne, died thisRichard, and with himHenrythe lordScropeand other, in whose behalfe this may bee saide.”]
[By that this was ended, I had found out the story ofRichardearle ofCambridge: and because it contained matter in it, though not very notable, yet for the better vnderstanding of the rest, I thought it meete to touch it, and therefore saide as followeth: “You haue saide well of thePerciesand fauourably; for in deede, as it should appeare, the chiefe cause of their conspiracy against kingHenry, was forEdmund Mortimertheir cousin’s sake, whome the king very maliciously proclaymed to haue yeelded him selfe toOwencoulourably, when, as in deede, hee was taken forcibly against his will and very cruelly ordered in prison. And seeing wee are in hand withMortimer’smatter, I will take vpon mee the person ofRichard Plantagenet, earle ofCambridge, who for his sake likewise died. And therefore I let passeEdmund Holland, earle ofKent, whomeHenrythe fourth made admirall to scoure the seas, because theBritaynswere abroad. Which earle (as many thinges happen in war) was slaine with an arrowe at the assaulte ofBriacke:[586]shortly after whose death this king died, and his sonneHenrythe fift of that name, succeded in his place. In the beginning of thisHenrythe fifte’s raigne, died thisRichard, and with himHenrythe lordScropeand other, in whose behalfe this may bee saide.”]