Note 1297 — How the Lord Hastings was betrayed, by trusting too much to his euill counsaylour Catesby, and vilanously murdered in the Tower of London by Richard Duke of Glocester, the 13 of Iune, Anno 1483.[1295]

I am that Hastings, whose to hasty death They blame that know wherefore I lost my breath, Wyth others fearinge least my headlesse name Bee wrongde, by partiall bruite of flatteringe fame: Hearinge, O Baldwin, that thou mean’st to penne, The lyues, and fals of English noblemen, Myselfe here present, do present to thee, My life, my fal, and forced destenye. 1575, 78. N.