106 CAMPION S HISTORIE And thus I thinke no reasonable man will doubt of a right so old, so continued, so ratified, so many wayes confessed. CAP. III. Richard the first, and King John. XjY occasion of Lacyes mishap, Iohn Courcye, and Hugh de JLacye the younger, with all their assistants, did streight execution upon the Rebells, and prevent- ing every mischiefe ere it fell, stayed the Realme from uproares. P Thus they continued lovingly, and lived in wealth and honour all the dayes of Richard the first, untill the first yeare of King Iohns raigne. Henry the second had issue male, IVilliam, Henry, Richard, Ieffrey, and Iohn. f l William, Henry, and Richard dyed w ithout issue. Jeffrey Earle of Brittaine dyed before his father, and left issue two daughters, and an after-borne son called Arthur, whose title to the Crowne, as being the undoubted lyne of the elder brother, Philip King of France, and certain e Lords of England and Ireland stoutly justified : Him had King Iohn taken prisoner in Normandy, and dispatched, if '1189.
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