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Life and Reign of King Edward VI is in Tudor Books.
Jul 1553. After some [...]he [...] of deliberation among the Councell, it was resolued that the Physitians should be discharged, and the cure committed to her alone: the apparant defect both of her iudgement and experience, ioyned to the weightinesse of the aduenture, caused many to maruell, and some deeply to suspect that shee was but an instrument of mischiefe; this surmise was strongly confirmed within a very short time ensuing, when the King did fall into desperate extremities, his vitall parts were mortally stuffed, which brought him to a difficultie of speech and of breath, his legs swelled, his pulse failed, his skin changed colour, and many other horrid symptomes appeared.
Then were the Physitians called againe, who espying him in that fearefull estate, departed from him with a sad silence, leauing him to the miserable mercy of neere approaching death, some of these whispered among their priuate friends, that they were called for fashion only, but neither their aduice nor appliances were any deale regarded, but the King had beene ill dealt with more than once, and that when by the benefit, both of his youth and of carefull meanes, there was faire means of his recouery, he was againe more strongly ouerlaid.
Yet as crueltie and wrong neuer stand secure, so the Duke thought one thing more expedient for assuring his designes, and that was to draw the Lady Mary wholly into his power: to this purpose Letters were directed to her in the Kings name from the Councell, willing her forth with to resort to the King, as well to be a comfort to him in his sicknesse, as to see all matters well ordered about him; the Ladie suspecting no lurking mischiefe, addressed herselfe with all speed to the iourney, expressing great ioy, that either her company or her seruice, should be esteemed needfull to the King; but as she was vpon the way, and within halfe a daies [...]ourney of London, her foot readie to slip into the s [...]are, shee receiued aduice both of the Kings desperate estate, and of the Dukes designments against her: whereupon she returned in haste to her house at Houeden, where in a short time shee heard how [...]o pro [...]table her iourney would haue beene to London.
06 Jul 1553. So the King (age 15) hauing long wrastled with a lingring and tormenting sicknesse, at the last his spirits yeelded to the malice of his disease, which as with great patience hee did endure, so with no lesse piet [...]e did he end it; many feruent prayers hee made, both for himselfe and for the people of his Realmes, and some when he was esteemed almost past sense, and so spent his last breath in committing his sweet soule into the Almighties hands▪ which had created it.
He died at Greenwich vpon Thursday the sixth day of Iuly, in the yeare 1553. and in the seuenteenth yeare of his age, when he had raigned six yeares, fiue moneths and nine dayes; two dayes his death was concealed, to open a straight way for the Dukes crooked purposes; his body was buried vpon the ninth of August in the same yeare, in the Chappell of Saint Peters Church in Westminster, and laid neere to the body of King Henry the seuenth, his Grand-father.
