Because my brother Edmund Mortimer,
Whose eldest sister was my wedded wife,
I meane that Edmund that was prisoner
In Walles so long, through Owen’s busie strife,
Because I say that after Edmunde’s life,
His rightes and titles must by lawe bee mine,
For hee ne had, nor could encrease his line.
4.
Because the right of realme and crowne was ours,
I searched meanes to helpe him thereunto: