Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Fragmenta regalia; or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favourites by Paul Hentzner;Sir Robert Naunton
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Spain. His third wife was Catherine, of a knight's family, a woman
of great beauty, by whom he had a numerous progeny; from which is descended, by the mother's side, Henry the Seventh, the most prudent King of England, by whose most happy marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Edward the Fourth, of the line of York, the two royal lines of Lancaster and York are united, to the most desired tranquillity of England. The most illustrious prince, John, surnamed Plantagenet, King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Richmond, Leicester, and Derby, Lieutenant of Aquitain, High Steward of England, died in the twenty-first year of Richard II., A.D. 1398. A little farther, almost at the entrance of the choir, in a certain recess, are two small stone chests, one of which is thus inscribed: Here lies Seba, King of the East Saxons, who was converted to the faith by St. Erkenwald, Bishop of London, A.D. 677. On the other: Here lies Ethelred, King of the Angles, son of King Edgar, On whom St. Dustan is said to have denounced vengeance, on his coronation day, in the following words:- "Inasmuch as thou hast aspired to the throne by the death of thy brother, against whose |
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