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&quot; self into his hands.&quot; And from that time forth, 

 though there wanted not some ahout him, that 

 would have persuaded him that all was but an illu 

 sion ; yet notwithstanding, either taken by Perkin s 

 amiable and alluring behaviour, or inclining to the 

 recommendation of the great princes abroad, or 

 willing to take an occasion of a war against King 

 Henry, he entertained him in all things, as became 

 the person of Richard, Duke of York ; embraced his 

 quarrel ; and, the more to put it out of doubt, that 

 he took him to be a great prince, and not a repre 

 sentation only, he gave consent that this duke should 

 take to wife the Lady Catharine Gordon, daughter 

 to the Earl of Huntley, being a near kinswoman to 

 the king himself, and a young virgin of excellent 

 beauty and virtue. 



Not long after, the King of Scots in person, with 

 Perkin in his company, entered with a great army, 

 though it consisted chiefly of borderers, being raised 

 somewhat suddenly, into Northumberland. And 

 Perkin, for a perfume before him as he went, caused 

 to be published a proclamation* of this tenor fol 

 lowing, in the name of Richard, Duke of York, true 

 inheritor of the crown of England : 



&quot; It hath pleased God, who putteth down the 

 &quot; mighty from their seat, and exalteth the humble, 

 f&amp;lt; and suffereth not the hopes of the just to perish 



* The original of this proclamation remaineth with Sir Robert 

 Cotton, a worthy preserver and treasurer of rare antiquities: from 

 whose manuscripts I have had much light for the furnishing of 

 this work. 



