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was given him when they did but guess at it, before 

 examinations had been taken. But yet he had been 

 so much talked on by that name, as it stuck by him 

 after his true name of Osbeck was known. While he 

 was a young child, his parents returned with him to 

 Tournay. Then was he placed in a house of a kins 

 man of his, called John Stenbeck, at Antwerp, and 

 so roved up and down between Antwerp and Tour- 

 nay, and other towns of Flanders, for a good time ; 

 living much in English company, and having the 

 English tongue perfect. In which time, being 

 gro^n a comely youth, he was brought by some of 

 the espials of the Lady Margaret into her presence. 

 Who viewing him well, and seeing that he had a 

 face and personage that would bear a noble fortune ; 

 and finding him otherwise of a fine spirit and win 

 ning behaviour, thought she had now found a 

 curious piece of marble to carve out an image of a 

 Duke of York. She kept him by her a great while, 

 but with extreme secrecy. The while she instructed 

 him by many cabinet conferences. First, in princely 

 behaviour and gesture ; teaching him how he should 

 keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his mis 

 fortunes. Then she informed him of all the circum 

 stances and particulars that concerned the person of 

 Richard, Duke of York, which he was to act; 

 describing unto him the personages, lineaments, and 

 features of the king and queen his pretended 

 parents ; and of his brother, and sisters, and divers 

 others, that were nearest him in his childhood; 

 together with all passages, some secret, some 



