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EN RI CU S Quartus, filius Joannis Gaunt Ducis LancaßricC, reg- p. 4nare coepit in Anglia, anno ab incarnato Chrifto, millefimo,

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trecentefimo, octogefimo decimo Nono.

Anno primo Regni fui folennem Chrifli natalem egit JVyndeforì.

Tertio nimirum Anno, Menfè Augußo , nobiliflima * Dux Britannico * sic in Orgapud Falmouth Portum Comubiæ navim appulit, & illinc Wintcmiam glo-riole perdu&a, celebritate (qua decuit) Regi nupfit in Ecclefiâ Cathedrali,fed multo majore poft modum anno quarto, per vicos Londinenfes Weß-monaßerium ingreflà, quarto decimo Decembris , reginali ferto fuit in (ig-nita.

Eodem anno quarto, Rupertus poft Wengefilaum Augii Pcus, in Angli-am ultro veniens, & quali ac quanto tam imperiofum oportuit, ho-nore & variis invitationum generibus, hic atque illic acceptus * deniq;magnis muneribus hinc inde volantibus, fed ab eo (quoniam magnifi-cus & fuit & videri voluit, & quia Regis hic impendio tantifper haudparvo manferat) amplioribus : ad mare perductus honorifice regrefliiseft.

Anno Sexto Londini intra Smithfeild , concurfiis elegans inter Ednmn- p - 5 °-dum Cantice Comitem, & 4 Mauricium quendam Scotice Baronem, non

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H ENRY the Fourth , Son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafler,began to reign in England in the Tear from the Incarnatimi of Chrifi,one thoufand three hundred eighty and nineteen.

In the firß Tear of his Reign, he folemnly kept his Chriftmas at Wind-*for.

In his third Tear, in the Month of Augufl, the moß noble Dutchefs ofBretagne landed at Falmouth, a Port of Cornwall, and being fplendidly con-ducted from thence to Winchefler, was married to the King in that Cathedral',ninth a Pomp fuitable to the Occafion, and yet with a much greater, after-wards in his fourth Tear, fie pajfed through the Streets of Weftminfter, andwas royally crowned on the fourteenth of Deceniber.

In this fame fourth Tear, Rupert, who fucceeded Wenceflaus as Empe-ror, voluntarily coming into England, and being received with all the Ho-nour due to fo great an Emperor, and with various Kinds of Entertain-ments every where, and in fine with great Prefents from all Quartersbrought to him y who returned greater Ones (for he was not only defirousof appearing magnificent, but was really fo, and becaufe his long Stay herehad been very chargeable to the King) and being honourably attended to theSea 3 returned Home.

In his fixth Tear at London in Smithfield, there was performed a gal-lant Tilt, between Edmund Earl of Kent, and one a Maurice a Baron of

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