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familie continued the space of three or four weekes, without either beds, sheets,'table cloths, or dishes to eat their meat in, or wherewith to buie anie : the cardinal! was forced to borrow of the bishop of Carleill, plate and dishes, &c.
After this, in the kinffs bench his matter for the lohnscute
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premunire, being called vpon, two atturneis, which ienn:e. he had authorised by his warrant signed with his owne hand, confessed the action, and so had iudgement to forfeit all his lands, tenements, goods, and cattels, d.™« «£ and to be out of the kings protection : but the king ^^ed ma of his clemencie sent to him a sufficient protection, and left to him the bishoprikes of Yorke and Winchester, with plate and stufTe conuenient for his
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The king, which all this while, since the doubt was J^/^Jlt mooued touching his marriage, absteined from the^sweson queenes bed, was now aduertised by his ambassa- ria^e-dours, whom he had sent to diuerse vniuersities for the absoluing of his doubt, that the said vniuersities were agreed, and cleerelie concluded, that the one brother might not by Gods law marrie the other brothers -wife, carnallie knowen by the first marriage, & that neither the pope nor the court of Rome could in anie wise dispense with the same. For ye must vnderstand, that amongst other things alleged for disproofe of the manage to be lawfull, euidence was eiuen of certeine wordes, which prince Arthur spake Aspeciaii
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the morrow after he was first married to the queene, in disproofe
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whereby it was gathered, that he knew her carnallie nage. the night then passed. The words were these, as we find them in the chronicle of master Edward Hall.
In the morning after he was risen from the bed, in which he had laine with hir all night, he called for drinke, which he before time was not accustomed to doo. At which thing, one of his chamberleines