86 THE RHYMED CHRONICLE UK JOHN HARESTAFFE. 



This Suite as by y e Copies doth appeare, 



Did happen in the two and twentyth yeare 



Of our late Sov r aigne Queene Elizabeth : 



About tenn yeares after y e father's death : 



In all w ch tyme and two or three yeares after 



Continewed suites twixt mother, sonne, & daughter 



For she did practize lykewyse to defeate 



Her elder daughter called Margarett, 



Of some fyve hundred marks left by her father 



AYhich she by changinge of y e names, had rather 



Should come unto her yonger daughter Mary 



About w ch poynt oth' Will they long did varie. 



I dare not say, that it was verie sooth, 



Though manie did beleeve it for a truth : 



For she was cunninge, could both read &: wryte, 



And to her elder children had much spyte 



But on y e yonger sett her cheefe delight. 



This Farme of Haselbach did still remayne 

 Ith' mother's handes Till Henry did attayne 

 To eightene yeares & thenceforth he possest it 

 For soe (they say) his fathers will exprest it. 



But after it once came to Henrye's handes, 



In that he had noe other state or landes, 



Nor other Lyvelihood did as then enjoy, 



His elder brother would not him annoy : 



But shortlie to attonement w th him grewe, 



And then good friendship twixt them did ensewe : 



Soe that yong Henry helde it without stryfe, 



From thenceforth duringe all his term of lyffe : 



And by his Will he left it to his wyffe 



And Chylde unborne : Whereon this Suite they ground, 



Gainst Maister Vernon for six hundred pounde : 



From which I have digressed somewhat longe 



Onely to shewe in part his mother's wronge. 



