sonnes of Deuon and Cornwall were there
vertuously trained vp, in both kinds of diuine and humane learning,
vnder one Cholwel, an honest and religious teacher, which caused the
neighbours so much the rather, and the more to rewe, that a petty
smacke onely of Popery, opened a gap to the oppression of the whole,
by the statute made in Edw. the 6. raigne, touching the suppression
of Chaunteries.
Such strange accidents of extraordinary aduancements are verified
by the ample testimonie of many histories, and, amongst the rest,
we read in Machiauell (howbeit controuled by the often reproued
Iouius) that Castruccio Caestracani climed from a baser birth, to a
farre higher estate. For being begotten in Lucca, by vnknowne
parents, and cast out, in his swadling clouts, to the wide world,
he was taken vp by a widdowe, placed by her with a Clergy man her
brother, giuen by him to a Gent, called Francesco Guinigi, and by
Guinigi left tutor to his onely sonne. From which step, his courage
and wisedome raysed him by degrees, to the soueraignty of Lucca,
the Senatorship of Rome, the speciall fauour of the Emperour, and a
neere hope (only by death preuented) of subduing Florence.
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