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| 30 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size="2">The first
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| 31 | account listed at right was taken from a contemporary herald's report,
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| 32 | first published in 1715. The second account was written by Tudor
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| 33 | citizen Richard Grafton. Its spelling has been modernized.</font><p>
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| 34 | <font size="2">Arthur was the eldest son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth
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| 35 | of York. He was born on 20 September 1486, barely a year after the
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| 36 | pivotal battle of Bosworth Field, and died on 2 April 1502. Arthur
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| 37 | was indeed named after the mythical King Arthur; Henry VII was Welsh and
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| 38 | the legend was popular in medieval England. In fact, it was
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| 39 | generally believed at the time that Winchester was built upon the ruins of
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| 40 | Camelot. And so Elizabeth of York was sent to Winchester to give
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| 41 | birth and Arthur was christened at its cathedral. He was titled
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| 42 | Prince of Wales (and was the first to receive the title) when he was 3
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| 43 | years old.</font></p>
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| 44 | <p><font size="2">Negotiations for his marriage to Katharine of Aragon,
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| 45 | daughter of the famous Ferdinand and Isabella, began in 1488. The
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| 46 | terms were settled in 1500 and the couple were married in London on 14
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| 47 | November 1501. They journeyed to Ludlow Castle, the traditional seat
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| 48 | of the Prince of Wales, and established a small court. However,
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| 49 | Arthur died suddenly on 2 April 1502, possibly of tuberculosis. The
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| 50 | two accounts at right record his parents' reaction to the news.</font></p>
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| 57 | <td valign="top" width="48%">When his Grace [Henry VII] understood that
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| 58 | sorrowful heavy tydings, he sent for the Queene [Elizabeth of York],
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| 59 | saying that he and his Queene would take the painful sorrows together.
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| 60 | After that she was come and saw the Kyng her Lord, and that naturall and
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| 61 | paineful sorrowe, as I have heard saye, she with full great and constant
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| 62 | comfortable words besought his Grace that he would first after God
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| 63 | remember the weale of his own noble person, the comfort of his realme and
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| 64 | of her. She then saied that my Lady his mother had never no more children
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| 65 | but him only, and that God by his Grace had ever preserved him, and
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| 66 | brought him where he was. Over that, howe that God had left him yet a
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| 67 | fayre Prince, two fayre Princesses and that God is where he was, and we
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| 68 | are both young ynoughe. <br>
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| 69 | ....Then his Grace of true gentle and faithful love, in good hast came and
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| 70 | relieved her, and showed her howe wise counsell she had given him before,
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| 71 | and he for his parte would thanke God for his sonn, and would she should
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| 72 | doe in like wise. <br>
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| 74 | <p>When
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| 75 | the king by his high policy had completed his alliance with Spain in this
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| 76 | way, there suddenly came a lamentable mischance and loss to the king, queen
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| 77 | and all the people. For that noble prince Arthur, the king's first
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| 78 | begotten son, after he had been married to the Lady Catherine for five
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| 79 | months, departed this transitory life at Ludlow on 2 April 1502. </p>
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| 80 | <p>With great funeral obsequies he was buried in the cathedral church of
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| 81 | Worcester. After his death the name of prince belonged to his brother
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| 82 | the duke of York, since his brother died without his issue, and so without
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| 83 | being thus created he ought to be called, unless some apparent cause was
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| 84 | a let or obstacle to it. But the duke, suspecting that his brother's
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| 85 | wife was with child, as was thought possible by the expert and wise men
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| 86 | of the prince's council, was by a month or more delayed from his title,
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| 87 | name and pre-eminence, in which time the truth might easily appear to women.
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| 88 | <p align="left">It is reported that this lady Catherine thought and feared such an unhappy
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| 89 | chance might come, for when she had embraced her father and taken leave
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| 90 | of her noble and prudent mother, and sailed towards England, she was continually
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| 91 | so tossed and tumbled hither and thither with boisterous winds that what
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| 92 | with the raging of the water and the contrary winds her ship was prevented
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| 93 | many times from approaching the shore and landing.<p align="left"> <p align="center">
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