KING HENRY THE FOURTH 



A.D. 

 1413- 



The same in English. 



THe last day of October the bishop of Winchester 

 came to the Councell of Constance, which after the 

 chusing of the Pope determined to take his journey to 

 Jerusalem : where his eloquent perswasion so much pre- 

 vailed, that he both perswaded my lords the Cardinals to 

 unity and concord, and also moved them to proceed more 

 speedily to the election of the Pope. 



A preparation of a voyage of King Henrie the 

 fourth to the Holy land against the infidels 

 in the yere 141 3, being the last yere of his 

 reigne : wherein he was prevented by death : 

 written by Walsingham, Fabian, Polydore 

 Virgile, and Holenshed. 



N this foureteenth and last yere of king 

 Henries reigne a councell was holden in 

 the White friers in London, at the which 

 among other things, order was taken for Order taken 

 ships and gallies to be builded and made ^ll^f^f^^'^ 

 ready, and all other things necessary to l.^|/^j_ 

 be provided for a voyage, which he 

 meant to make into the Holy land, there to recover the 

 city of Jerusalem from the infidels: for it grieved him to 

 consider the great malice of Christian princes, that were 

 bent upon a mischievous purpose to destroy one another, 

 to the perill of their owne soules, rather then to make 

 warre against the enemies of the Christian faith, as in 

 conscience, it seemed to him, they were bound. We 

 finde, sayeth Fabian in his Chronicle, that he was taken 

 with his last sickenesse, while he was making his prayers 

 at Saint Edwards shrine, there as it were, to take his 

 leave, and so to proceede foorth on his journey. He 

 was so suddenly and grievously taken, that such as were 

 about him feared least he would have died presently : 

 wherefore to relieve him, if it were possible, they bare 



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