Be
it ordeined, established, and enacted by Edward, king, and Rylyn, quéene, of
this realme of Ealdormere, with all the preheminence, and dignitie roiall to
the same apperteining, that We do bestow, anoint and give unto Tangwustl
Caterina D’Courci, first viscountesse of this Our kingdome, the title, style
and right of duchesse, with the appurtenances thereto in anie wise due or
appertaining. In her, Our kingdome’s first princesse, shall rest, remaine, and
abide, our most roiall favour. This We order, Edward, souereigne lord king, and
Rylyn, high quéene, with the grace of the North so to indure.
Done
on the feast day of Blessed Charles of Austria, while Their souereigne maiesties
sit in the castell of Rockton, within the lands of the boar known as Ben
Dunfirth, in the yeare of the world 5984, and in the fifty and second yeare of
the society, after the birth of the Lady Ealdormere 28, and in yeare ninetéene
of the lupine realme.
Wording by
Maister Colyne Stewart, based on “An act for the establishing of the crowne in the
line of Henrie the seauenth” as recorded by Raphael Holinshed in Holinshed's
Chronicles, which were written in 1577 with a second edition released in 1587.
In modern
English, for the ease of the Court Herald:
Be
it ordained, established, and enacted by Edward, king, and Rylyn, queen, of
this realm of Ealdormere, with all the pre-eminence, and dignity royal, to the
same appertaining, that We do bestow, anoint and give unto Tangwustl Caterina
D’Courci, first viscountess of this Our kingdom, the title, style and right of
duchess, with the appurtenances thereto in any ways due or appertaining. In
her, Our kingdom’s first princess, shall rest, remain, and abide, our most
royal favour. This We order, Edward, sovereign lord ing, and Rylyn, high queen,
with the grace of the North so to endure.
Done
on the feast day of Blessed Charles of Austria, while Their soverign majesties
sit in the castle of Rockton, within the lands of the boar known as Ben
Dunfirth, in the yeare of the world 5984, and in the fifty and second year of
the society, after the birth of the Lady Ealdormere 28, and in the year
nineteen of the lupine realm.
Original:
Be
it ordeined, established, and enacted by this present parlement, that the
inheritance of the crown of this realme of England, & also of France, with
all the preheminence, and dignitie roiall to the same apperteining, all other
seigniories to the king belonging beyond the sea, with the appurtenances
thereto in anie wise due or apperteining, shall rest, remaine, and abide, in
the most roiall person of our now souereigne lord king Henrie the seuenth, and
in the heires of his bodie lawfullie comming, perpetuallie, with the grace of
God so to indure, and in none other.
The
Project Gutenberg EBook of Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland
(3
of 6): England (7 of 9), Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of
Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt,
by
Raphael Holinshed
which
is part of the Holinshed's Chronicles, which were written in 1577 with a second
edition released in 1587.
