HISTORY OF KING HENRY VIL 377 



Queen Elizabeth s legitimation, which were the 

 longer and the latter, maintained the contrary. So 

 much there remaineth in memory, that it was half 

 a year s time between the creation of Henry, Prince 

 of Wales, and Prince Arthur s death, which was 

 construed to be, for to expect a full time, whereby 

 it might appear, whether the Lady Catharine were 

 with child by Prince Arthur, or no- Again, the lady 

 herself procured a bull, for the better corroboration 

 of the marriage, with a clause of &quot; vel forsan cog- 

 nitam,&quot; which was not in the first bull. There was 

 given in evidence also, when the cause of the di 

 vorce was handled, a pleasant passage, which was, 

 that in a morning, Prince Arthur, upon his up 

 rising from bed with her, called for drink, which he 

 was not accustomed to do, and finding the gentle 

 man of his chamber that brought him the drink to 

 smile at it, and to note it, he said merrily to him, 

 that he had been in the midst of Spain, which was 

 an hot region, and his journey had made him dry; 

 and that if the other had been in so hot a clime, he 

 would have been drier than he. Besides, the prince 

 was upon the point of sixteen years of age when 

 he died, and forward, and able in body. 



The February following, Henry, Duke of York 

 was created Prince of Wales, and Earl of Chester 

 and Flint : for the Dukedom of Cornwall devolved 

 to him by statute. The king also being fast-handed, 

 and loth to part with a second dowry, but chiefly 

 being affectionate both by his nature, and out of 

 politic considerations to continue the alliance with 

 Spain, prevailed with the prince, though not without 



