re you shall not take his life. The King embracing "him faid, Agreed. Then faid the King of "Caftile, Neither, Sir, fhall it dislike you, if I "fend him in fuch a fashion, that he may come "partly with his own good-will. The King replied, It was well thought of, and if it pleaf "him, he would join with him in fending "Earl a meffage to that purpose.

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"There were," adds Lord B-on, "diately messengers fent from th Kings to "recall the Earl of Suffolk, no, upon gentle "words, was foon charme and willing enough to return, affurednis life, and hoping of "his liberty."

Amon the Archives of the City of Bruffels, the d-ation of the Kingdom of England to the D-chefs of Burgundy by Perkin Warbeck, as Duke of York, is preserved.

"IN gaming with a Prince," fays Puttenham, "it is decent to let him fometimes win, of pur"pose to keepe him pleasant; and never to refuse.

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his gift, for that is undutifull; nor to forgive "him his loffes, for that is arrogant; nor to give him great gifts, for that is either info"lence or follie; nor to feast him with exceffive "charge, for that is both vain and envious: and "therefore

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"therefore the wife Prince King Henry the "Seventh, her Majefty's grandfather, if he ❝ chaunce had bene to lye at any of his fubjects "houses, or to paffe moe meales than one, he "that would take upon him to defray the charge of his dyet, or of his officers and household,

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would be marvelously offended with, faying, "Whe rivate fubject dare undertake a Prince's charge, looke into the fecret of his expence? "Her Majetic (i. e. Queen Elizabeth) hath "bene knowne ften times to miflike the fuperfluous expence her fubjects bestowed upon ❝her in times of her greffes."

7th year. Itm to a fello with a berde* £. s. d. a spye in rewarde

-to my lorde Onvy

0 40

Seall fole in rewarde o 10

8th y'. Itm to Pechie the fole in

rewarde

-to the Walshmen on St.

David day

。 6 8

0 40 о

*This was a reign of fmooth chins, a beard therefore

was a fingularity.

13th y'.

Itm to Ric Bedon for writ- £. s. d. ing of bokes*

·

-to the young damoyfell

that daunceth

30 0 0

* There are many payments for writing books, which fhew the flow progress the art of printing made for fome years.

+ Henry VII. feems to have been particularly fond of this diverfion, as there are other entries of this fort in hie

accounts.

Bacon fays, the King had (though he were no good Schoolman) the honour to convert a heretic at Canterbury.

HENRY THE EIGHTH.

[1509-1547.]

LORD BACON intended to write the history of the very interefting reign of Henry the Eighth. A few pages only of the Introduction are preserved. It begins thus:

"After the decease of that wife and fortunate King Henry the Seventh, who died in the

height of his profperity, there followed (as "ufeth to do when the fun fetteth fo extremely

"clear) one of the fairest mornings of a kingdom "that hath been known in this land or elfe"where: A young King, about eighteen years "of age; for ftature, strength, and making, and "beauty, one of the goodliest persons of his "time. And though he were given to pleasure,

yet he was likewise defirous of glory, so that "there was a paffage open to his mind for glory " by virtue. Neither was he unadorned by learn

ing, though therein he came fhort of his "brother Arthur. He had never any the least "pique, difference, or jealoufy, with the king "his father, which might give any alteration of "Court or Council upon the change, but all

things paffed in a ftill. He was the first heir of "the White and Red Rofe, fo that there was "now no difcontented party left in the king"dom, but all men's hearts turned towards "him; and not only their hearts but their eyes "alfo, for he was the only Son of the Kingdom. "He had no brother, which though it be a com"fortable thing to have, yet draweth the subjects

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eyes a little afide. And yet being a married "man in these young years, it promised hope of

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fpeedy iffue to fucceed to the Crown. Neither

was

was there

any Queen-Mother who might share any way in the Government, or clash with his "Counsellors for authority, while the King at "tended his pleasure: no fuch thing as any

great and mighty Subject, who might any way eclipse or overfhade the Imperial power; and "for the People and State in general, they were "in fuch lownefs of obedience as fubjects were "likely to yield, who had lived almost four-and"twenty years under fo politic a King as his

father; being alfo one who came partly in by "the fword, and had so high a courage in all "points of regality, and was ever victorious in "rebellions and feditions of the people. The

crown extremely rich and full of treasure, "and the kingdom like to be fo in a fhort time; "for there was no war, no dearth, no ftop of "trade or commerce: it was only the Crown "which had fucked too hard, and now being "full, and upon the head of a young King, was "like to draw lefs. Laftly, he was inheritor of "his father's reputation, which was great "throughout the world."

Princes, however, like private men, do not always take advantage of the bleffings that are afforded them. Whatever good is procured without effort, is feldom or never improved in proportion to its facility of being fo; and per

haps