My loue to vertue,
and not any particular beholdingnes, hath expressed this my testimony.
For persons imployed in state affaires, and there-through stept
to preferment, that I may not outstride late remembrance,
Sir Richard Edgecumb the elder, was Comptroller of the houshold,
and priuie Counseller to King Henry the seuenth, being sent by him
also in diuers Ambassades, in one of which to the Duke of Britaine
he deceased.
King Henry the eight made like vse in this last kind, of
Iohn Tregonwel, who graduated a Doctor, and dubbed a Knight, did his
Prince good seruice, and left faire reuenewes to his posterity.
Sir Thomas Arundel, a younger brother of Lanhearn house, maried the
sister to Queene Katherine Howard, & in Edward the 6. time was made
a priuie Counseller: but cleauing to the Duke of Somerset, he lost
his head with him.
Sir Henry Killigrew, after Ambassades and messages, and many other
employments of peace and warre, in his Princes seruice, to the good
of his Countrey, hath made choyce of a retyred estate, and reuerently
regarded by all sorts, placeth his principall contentment in
himselfe, which, to a life so well acted, can no way bee wanting.
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