In this variance, it is great reason,
that the ballance panche on his side, who hath both authority to
establish his assertion, and a rarely approued knowledge, to warrant
his authoritie. Hee dying issue-lesse, Richard the first gaue this
Earledome to his brother Iohn.
[1257.]
Iohns sonne, Henry the third, honoured therewith his brother Richard
King of the Romanes, a Prince no lesse plentifully flowing in wealth,
then his brother was often driuen to extreame shifts, through
needinesse: which made that barbarous age to poetrize,
Nummus ait pro me, nublt Cornubia Romae.
Money sayd, that for her sake,
Rome did Cornwall, to wife take.
He had issue, Henry Earle of Cornwall, who deceased issuelesse:
and Edmond, whose daughter and heire Isabell (sayth mine authour)
was married to Morice Fitsharding Lord Barckleigh: but others
affirme, that this Edmond dyed without issue.
Edward the, second, degenerating in his choyce, created his mynion,
Peter Gaueston, a Gascoyne, Earle of this County, whose posterity
ended in himselfe, and himself by a violent death.
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