husbands, viz.
Sir Nicholas Baron of Carew, and Sir Robert Fere, brother
to [103] Iohn Earle of Oxford: to Sir Nicholas, shee bare Thomas,
Nicholas, Hugh, Alexander, and William: to Sir Robert, Iohn, and
became widdow of both. And, as after the fathers decease, good
agreement betweene the mother and eldest sonne hath commonly weake
continuance, because both being enfranchised to a sudden absolute
iurisdiction, neither of them can easily temper the same with a
requisite moderation: so it chaunced, that shee and hers fell at
square, which discord (with an vnnaturall extremity) brake forth into
a blow, by him no lesse dearly, then vndutifully giuen his mother:
for vpon so iust a cause, she disinherited him of all her lands,
being seuenteene mannours, and bestowed them on her yonger sonnes.
This I learned by the report of Sir Peter Carew, the elder of
that name, and eldest of our stock (a Gentleman, whose rare worth
my pen is not able to shaddow, much lesse with his due lineaments
to represent) at such time, as being a scholler in Oxford of
fourteene yeeres age, and three yeeres standing, vpon a wrong
conceyued opinion touching my sufficiency, I was there called to
dispute ex tempore (impar congressus Achilli) with the matchles
Sir Ph.
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