And so this king liuing all his time in fortunes fauour, in high honour, wealth and glorie, for his noble acts and prudent policies is woorthie to be registred in the booke of fame, least time (the consumer of all worthie things) should blot out the memorie of his name here in earth, whose soule we trust liueth in heauen, enioieng the fruition of the godhead, & those pleasures prepared for the faithfull. [In memorie of whome, his manifold vertues, with the fortunate successe of his affaires, and the gratious descent of his loines, as they procured a famous report in nations farre and néere; so haue some at the contemplation of his princelinesse, and euerie waie crowned with felicitie, made memorials of his magnificence; to the immortalitie of his high praise and vnblemishable renowme: among whome (for the truth of the report iustifiable by the contents of this historie) one commeth to mind, which may well serue for an epitaph:
Septimus Henricus factis est nomen adeptus Præclarum claris ventura in secula famæ: Ciuibus ille suis fuerat charissimus, hostes Omnes iure ipsum metuebant: numinis almi Relligiosus erat cultor, pietatis & æqui, Versutos hominésque malos vehementiùs odit. Viginti totos charus trésque ampliùs annos Regibus externis in summo vixit honore: Magnanimus, iustus rex, prudens atque modestus, Henrico hæredi moriens sua regna reliquit, Diuitiásque, immensum argenti pondus & auri.
[Sidenote: _Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 892._]
[Sidenote: Sepulture of Henrie the seuenth.]
[Sidenote: Executors to Henrie the suenth.]
¶The altar and sepulture of the same king Henrie the seuenth, wherein he now resteth, in his new chappell at Westminster, was made and finished in the yeare of our Lord 1519, by one Peter T. a painter of the citie of Florence, for the which he receiued one thousand pounds sterling for the whole stuffe and workemanship, at the hands of the king executors, Richard bishop of Winchester, Richard Fitz Iames bishop of London, Thomas bishop of Duresme, Iohn bishop of Rochester, Thomas duke of Norffolke treasuror of England, Edward earle of Worcester the kings Chamberleine, Iohn F. knight, chiefe iustice of the kings Bench, Robert R. knight chiefe justice of the common plées, &c.]