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bounty, which virtues at that time had their turns in 

 his nature, restore Edward Stafford, eldest son to 

 Henry, duke of Buckingham, attainted in the time 

 of King Richard, not only to his dignities, but to his 

 fortunes and possessions, which were great : to 

 which he was moved also by a kind of gratitude, for 

 that the duke was the man that moved the first stone 

 against the tyranny of King Richard, and indeed 

 made the king a bridge to the crown upon his own 

 ruins. Thus the parliament brake up. 



The parliament being dissolved, the king sent 

 forthwith money to redeem the marquis Dorset and 

 sir John Bourchier, whom he had left as his pledges 

 at Paris for money which he had borrowed when he 

 made his expedition for England. And thereupon 

 he took a fit occasion to send the lord Treasurer and 

 master Bray, whom he used as counsellor, to the 

 lord mayor of London, requiring of the city a prest 

 of six thousand marks ; but after many parleys he 

 could obtain but two thousand pounds ; which never 

 theless the king took in good part, as men use to do 

 that practise to borrow money when they have no 

 need. About this time, the king called unto his 

 privy council John Morton and Richard Fox, the 

 one bishop of Ely, the other bishop of Exeter ; vi 

 gilant men and secret, and such as kept watch with him 

 almost upon all men else. They had been both versed 

 in his affairs before he came to the crown, and were 

 partakers of his adverse fortune. This Morton soon 

 after, upon the death of Bourchier, he made arch 

 bishop of Canterbury. And for Fox, he made him 

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