Essex, that king Richard was aliue, and that he would shortlie come to light, and claime his former estate, honor, and dignitie.
The iurisdiction thereof is administred by a Maior and his brethren, and vpon warrant of their Charter, they claime authoritie, to take acknowledgment of statute bonds.
Then Yorke begin, and if thy claime be good, ·daf005· The Neuils are thy subiects to command.
And we in pittie of the gentle king, Had slipt our claime vntill an other age.
I am resolude once more to claime the crowne, And win it too, or else to loose my life.
Thankes braue Mountgommery, But I onlie claime my Dukedom.
Plantagenet for all the claimethou laist, [eaa146] Thinke not king Henry shall be thus deposde?
Then noble father resolue your selfe, And once more claime the crowne.
Even Fortunes selfe, Fortune the Queene of Kingdomes, That Warrs grim valour graceth with her deeds, Will claimeno portion in this Victorie.
William of Hypres, who tooke vpon him as regent in the name of Stephan earle of Bullongne, whome king Henrie procured to make claime to Flanders also, in the title of his grandmother queene Maud, wife to William Conqueror.
Henrie by his sister Adela; these two princes chéefelie tooke their oth amongst other, to obey the foresaid empresse, as touching hir right and lawfull claime to the crowne of England.
Why this bond is forfeit, And lawfully by this the Iew may claime A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off Neerest the Merchants heart; be mercifull, Take thrice thy money, bid me teare the bond Iew.
If you be well pleasd with this, And hold your fortune for your blisse, Turne you where your Lady is, And claime her with a louing kisse Bass.
But when the countesse of Leicester would not consent to quite claime and release hir right in such parcels of Normandie as belonged to hir, which king Henrie had couenanted with the residue to resigne vnto the French king.
EB] And yet afterwards they laid claime to those parts in the controversie about Seacunk.
Gewisses or Westsaxons, notwithstanding that before the kings of Sussex pretended and made claime to all that which laie west of Kent, and south of the Thames, vnto the point of Corinwall, as I haue often read.
God king of England, the noble and superior lord of the kingdome of Scotland, and vnto you I make my fidelitie for the same kingdome, the which I hold and claime to hold of you.
By his Lady he hes a claimeto the estate of Baccleuch, failzeing of aires of this present Dutches hir body, tho the King hes somewhat inverted the straight succession heir.
For suerlie, learned men of great science and knowledge say and affirme, that lineall descent, nor vsurped possession can nothing preuaile, if continuall claime be lawfullie made, or openlie published.
First, where the said Richard duke of Yorke hath declared and opened (as his aboue said) title & claime in maner as followeth.
Sidenote: The duke of Yorke maketh claime to the crowne.
Sidenote 114: No godlie woman did euer claime authoritie ouer man by reason of her birth and blood.
God shall be truely knowne, and those about her, From her shall read the perfect way of Honour, And by those claime their greatnesse; not by Blood.
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