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A35219	England's monarchs, or, A compendious relation of the most remarkable transactions, and observable passages, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, which have hapned [sic] during the reigns of the kings and queens of England, from the invasion of the Romans to this present adorned with poems, and the pictures of every monarch, from William the Conquerour, to His present Majesty, our gracious sovereign, King Charles the Second : together with the names of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, the nobility, bishops, deans, and principal officers, civil and military, in England, in the year 1684 by R.B., author of the Admirable curiosities in England, The historical remarks in London and Westminster, The late wars in England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1685 (1685)	Wing C7314; ESTC R21089	148,791	242

Fitz-Harris were hanged at Tyburn July 2. The E. of Shaftsbury was committed to the Tower one Stephen Colledg a Joyner was likewise sent Prisoner thither and a Bill being brought against him to the Grand-Jury at the Old Bayly they returned it Ignoramus a while after he was sent to Oxford and found guilty of High-Treason committed there for which he was there executed Novem. 24. a Commission issued out for the Tryal of L. Shaftsbury at the Old Bayly but the Grand-Jury brought in the Bill Ignoramus July 12 13 14. 1683 Willam L. Russel Thomas Walc●t William Ho●e and John Rous were endicted and condemned for High Treason the L. Russel was beheaded in Lincolns-Inn-Fields and the others executed at Tyburn Decem. 7. Algernon Sidney Esquire was beheaded on Tower-hill upon the same Account June 20. 1684. Sir Thomas Armstrong was hanged and quartered upon an Outlawry for High-Treason James Holloway likewise executed some time before at Tyburn upon the like Outlawry for High Treason The Names of the Principal Officers Civil and Military in England 1684. The Right Honourable the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable privy-Privy-Council 33. Lord A. Bishop Canterbury Lord Gilford Lord Keeper E. of Radnor L. President Mar. Hallifax L. Privy Seal Duke of Ormond Duke of Albemarle Duke of Newcastle Duke of Beaufort Marquess of Winchester Earl of Lindsey Earl of Arlington Earl of Oxford Earl of Huntington Earl of Bridgwater Earl of Peterborough Earl of Chesterfield Earl of Sunderland Earl of Clarendon Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Ailsbury Earl of Nottingham Earl of Rochester L. Viscount Faulconbridge Lord Bishop of London Lord Dartmouth Henry Coventry Esq Sir ●●oline Jenkyns Knight 〈…〉 Ernle 〈…〉 Chichely 〈…〉 L.C. Justice Sidney Godolphin Esq Edward Seymour Esq The Great Officers of the Crown 9. L. High Steward of Engl. L. Keeper Lord North. L. High Treasurer at present in Commission L. President E. of Radror L. Privy Seal Mar. Hallifax L Great Chamberlain Earl of Lindsey L. High Constable Earl Marshal D. of Norfolk L. High Admiral at present in Commission His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State 2. Earl of Sunderland Sidney Godolphin Esq Officers of His Majesties Houshold Ecclesiastical 3. Dean of the Chappel Lord Bishop of London Clerk of the Closet Lord Bishop of Durham L. Almoner L. B. Rochester Civil 9. L. Steward D. of Ormond L. Chamberlain E. Arlington Master of the Horse Duke of Richmond Treasurer Lord Newport Comptroller L. Maynard Cofferer Lord Brounker Master of the Houshold H. Bulkly Esq Clerks of the Green-cloth Sir S. Fox Sir W. Boreman Clerks Comptrollers Sir Win. Churchill Sir R. Mason Gentlemen of the Bed chamber E. of Bath first Gentleman and Groom of the Stole Duke of Newcastle E. of Dorset and Middlesex Earl of Mulgrave Duke of Albemarle Earl of Lindsey Earl of Oxford Earl of Arran Lord Latimer Earl of Sussex Earl of Rannelagh Earl of Litchfield Earl of Rochester Vicechamb H. Saville Esq Keeper of the Privy Purse Baptist May Esq Treasurer of the Chamber Edward Griffen Esq Surveyor-General of His Majesties Works Sir Christopher Wren Master of the Robes belonging to His Majesties Person Hen. Sydney Esq Master of the Jewel-house Sir Gilbert Talbot Master of the Ceremonies Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Wardrobe Ralph L. Mountague Master Falconer Duke of St. Albans Clerks of the Council Sir J. Nicholas Kt. of the Bath Sir Philip Lloyd Sir Thomas Dolman Francis Gwyn Esq Masters of the Requests Sir Charles Cotterel Thomas Povey Esq Sir William Glascock Charles Morley Esq Clerks of the Privy Seal Sir Charles Bickerstaff John Matthews Esq Thomas Watkins Esq John Richards Esq Clerks of the Signet Sir John Nicholas Kt. Bath Sidney Bere Esq Nicholas Morice Esq Dr. William Trumbull Kt. Marshal Sir E. Villiers Usher of the Black Rod Sir Thomas Duppa Serj. Porter Sir H. Progers Military Capt. of the Band of Pensioners E. of Huntington Lieut. Fra. Villiers Esq Standard-bearer Sir Humphrey Winch. Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard L. Viscount Grandison Lieut. Tho. Howard Esq Ensign H. Dutton-Colt Esq Clerk of the Check Charles Villiers Esq The Judges and Principal Officers of Justice 12. Of the Kings Bench. Sir Geo. Jeffreys Kt. Bar. L. C. Justice of England Sir Francis Withens Kt. Sir Richard Holloway Kt. Sir Thomas Walcot Kt. Of the Common Pleas. Sir Tho. Jones L. C. Justice Sir Hugh Windham Kt. Sir Job Charlton Kt. Sir Creswel Levinz Kt. Of the Exchequer Will. Mountague L.C. Baron Sir Edw. Atkyns Kt. Sir William Gregory Kt. Sir Thomas Street Kt. Of the High Court of Chancery Fra. L. Guilford L. Keeper Sir Harbottle Grimston Master of the Rolls The Eleven Masters in Chancery Sir John Coell Kt. Sir W. Beversham Kt. Sir Samuel Clark Kt. Sir Edward Low D. L. Sir Miles Cooke Kt. Sir Lac. Will. Child Kt. Sir John Hoskins Kt. Sir John Franklyn Kt. Sir Adam Otley Kt. Sir Robert Le Gard Kt. Sir James Astrey Kt. Sir R. Sawyer Attorny Gen. H. Finch Esq Sollicit Gen. The Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster Chancellor Sir T. Chichely Vicechancell Sir J. Otway Attorney Gen Sir J. Heath Receiver Gen. Sir J. Curson Auditors J. Fanshaw Esq Edw. Webb Esq Clerk Cheek Gerard Esq The Chief Officers of His Majesties Revenue The Commissioners of the Treasury Earl of Rochester Sir John Ernle Kt. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Edward Deering Bar. Sir Stephen Fox Kt. Sydney Godolphin Esq And under these Lords The Commissioners of the Customs Charles Lord Chene Sir Dudley North Kt. Andrew Newport Esq Sir Richard Temple Baronet Sir Geo. Downing Kt. Bar. Sir Nicholas Butler Kt Commissioners of the Excise● and Fire-Hearths Sir Denny Ashburnham Bar. Francis Parrey Esq Robert Huntington Esq Charles Davenant Esq John Friend Esq Felix Calvert Esq Nath. Horneby Esq Patrick Trant Esq William Bridge Esq Treasurer Sir Cornw. Bradshaw Kt. Commissioners for Wine-Licences Henry Deering Esq William Young Esq John Taylor Esq Michael Brighouse Esq Robert Ryves Esq Commissioners of Appeals for Excise Robert Spencer Esq Charles Fanshaw Esq Sir Paul Neal Kt. George Dodington Esq Edward Seymour Esq Of the High Court of Admiralty The Commissioners for Executing the Office of L. High Admiral of England Earl of Nottingham Sir Thomas Meers Baronet Sir Humphrey Winch Kt. Sir Edward Hales Baronet Sir John Chichely Knight Henry Saville Esq Arthur Herbert Esq Vice-Admiral of England Duke of Crafton Rere-Adm Ar. Herbert Esq Judge of the Admiralty Sir Leoline Jenkyns Treasurer of the Navy L. Falkland Comptroller Sir Richard Haddock Surveyor Sir John Tippet Clerk of the Acts James Southern Esq To whom are joyned these Commissioners Sir John Narborough Kt. Sir Phineas Pett Kt. Sir Richard Beech Kt. Sir John Godwin Kt. Constable of the Tower of London Lord Allington Lieutenant of the Tower Thomas Cheek Esq Master of the Ordinance Lord Dartmouth Lieut. Sir Chr. Musgrave Surveyor of the Ordnance Sir Bernard de Gome Kt. Treasurer Cha. Bertie Esq Clerk of the Ordnance

Jo. ●rap●nber Scul England's MONARCHS OR A Compendious Relation of the most Remarkable Transactions and Observable Passages Ecclesiastical Civil and Military which have hapned during the Reigns of the KINGS and QUEENS of ENGLAND from the Invasion of the Romans to this present Adorned with Poems and the Pictures of every Monarch from William the Conquerour to His present Majesty our Gracious Sovereign King CHARLES the Second Together with the Names of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council the Nobility Bishops Deans and Principal Officers Civil and Military in England in the Year 1684. By R. B. Author of the Admirable Curiosities in England The Historical Remarks in London and Westminster The late Wars in England Scotland and Ireland c. LONDON Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside 1685. TO THE READER IT is a common Imputation cast upon Englishmen by Forreigners that they are more solicitous to be acquainted with the Affairs and Transactions of other Nations and Countreys than to be throughly informed of the most remarkable Passages which have happened in their own though I must assert that I am not of their Opinion since having already published three small Tracts of the same price with this one called Admirable Curiosities Rarities and Wonders in every County of England c. Another Historical Remarks of London and Westminster And a third Intituled The Wars in England Scotland and Ireland in the Reign of K. Charles the First I have found they have received very great acceptation with the English Nation so that many thousands more of them have been vended than of others which have concerned Forreign Matters this gives me incouragement to emit this brief Collection of the most memorable Occurrences during the Reigns of the Monarchs of England from the Roman Invasion to this present wherein I have purposely omitted several very considerable Passages as being already inserted in the three Books aforementioned so that these four may now be reckoned to give a very satisfactory account of all remarkable Revolutions and Accidents in England for near sixteen hundred years past which must certainly be very diverting since at so small a price any Person may be accommodated with so many useful particulars both for Instruction and Discourse and may likewise observe that our Ancestors wanted nothing of the Wisdom Conduct and Gallantry of this celebrated Age and ought not therefore to be reckoned so rude and barbarous as our brisk and gentiel Wits are apt through ignorance and in observance to imagine they were since we may find the Policy Valour and Clemency of the most renowned Roman Heroes to be matcht if not outdone by many of our noble English Worthies which may be a sufficient encouragement to every English Spirit to read the following Manual and thereby oblige their Humble Servant R. B. ENGLANDS MONARCHS Or An Account of the KINGS of ENGLAND From the Invasion of the ROMANS to this Time HIstorians conjecture That Britain was inhabited before Noah's Flood and Jeffry of Monmouth relates That it was Peopled by Brute with his Trojans about twelve hundred years after But others think the whole of these Relations to be meerly Fabulous affirming That the first Inhabitants thereof were derived from the Gauls or French by reason of their Agreement in Laws Customs Speech Buildings and other Usages though we may judge that being meerly Barbarous they took no care to transmit their Original to Posterity or if they had writ any thing it would probably have been lost in so long a time and such great Alterations of Affairs Therefore the small Light we have concerning them is borrowed from Foreign Writers of which I shall give this brief Account The Ancient Britans painted their naked Bodies with divers Pictures of Living Creatures Flowers Sun Moon and Stars thereby as they imagined to appear more dreadful to their Adversaries yet some of the Civiler sort were clothed and as a great Ornament they wore Chains of Iron about their Wastes and Necks and Rings on their middle Fingers The Hair of their Head they wore long which was naturally curled in many all other Parts they shaved onely the upper Lip They had ten or twelve Wives apiece who lived in common among their Parents and Brethren yet the Children were onely accounted his who first married the Mother while she was a Maid They were brought up in common amongst them They were moderate in their Diet as Milk Roots and Barks of Trees and a little thing no bigger than a Bean which for a great while took away both Hunger and Thirst Neither would they eat Hens Hares Geese nor Fish yet would often dine upon Venison and Fruits Their usual Drink was made of Barley They are reported by Plutarch to have lived very long many to an hundred and twenty years They were Idolatrous Heathens as to their Religion using Mans Flesh in their Sacrifices and adoring a multitude of Idols Their Priests were called Druids who managed their Sacrifices and likewise acted as Temporal Judges in all Civil Matters and it was highly criminal not to abide by their Judgment They were excused from the Wars and all Contributions They had a Primate who commanded over them in Chief Their Divinity was That the Soul is Immortal and passeth from one Body to another Which Doctrine they taught not out of Books but by Word of Mouth Their Buildings were low mean Cottages like those of the Gauls or Boors of France yet they fortified several thick Woods with Rampiers and Ditches which they called Towns Brass and Iron Rings were the Coin they used which were of a certain weight but afterward they grew more Civil by Traffick and had both Gold and Silver Money Their chief Trade was in Chains Wreaths Ivory Boxes Bits and Bridles with some Toys of Amber and Glass Neither was their Shipping more considerable their chief Vessels being made of light Wood covered over with Leather Their usual way of Fighting was in Military Chariots neither did they engage in great Bodies but had still fresh Men to succeed those who retired or were weary Their Weapons were Shields and short Spears at the lower end whereof was fastned a round Bell of Brass with which they terrified their Enemies Many times they fought under the Conduct of Valiant Women who were extraordinary Courageous They managed their Chariots so dexterously that running down a steep Hill with all speed they could stop them in the middle of their Course When the Romans first arrived here the Island was divided into Britannia Prima which contained the South part of England Britannia Secunda was the Western part now called Wales and Maxima Caesariensis which comprehended all the Northern parts beyond the River Trent The first of which in the Britains time belonged to the Archbishoprick of London the second to that of Caerleon or Glamorgan the third to that of York Julius Caesar the first Discoverer thereof really imagined that he had found a New World it

French King and his Mother out of the hands of so dangerous a Faction by aiding such of the French Subjects as preferred the service of their Soveraign and Country above all other respects and for preserving the reformed Religion from universal destruction and maintaining her own subjects in Peace and safety this she publisht in a Manifesto to the World and accordingly assisted the Hugonots with Ships Amunition and six thousand men The Papists apprehending the Queen would lay the Ax to the Root of their Religion contrived several horrid and dangerous Conspiracies against her life which were all happily prevented Differences growing great between the Queen of Scots and her Nobility they imprisoned her from whence she escaped into England and put her self under the Protection of the Queen who after mature deliberation concluded to detain her as one taken by the Right of War and not to dismiss her till she had made satisfaction for assuming the Title of England and the Death of Darnley her husband who was an English subject born and Commissioners were appointed to examine the cause at Tork and Murray the Regent of Scotland was summoned to answer the complaints of the Queen of Scots who entred a Protestation against these proceedings as being a free Princess and obnoxious to no earthly Princess on the contrary the English alledged that they would in no wise admit of her Protest as being in prejudice of the rights which the Kings of England have anciently challenged as Superior Lords of Scotland At last after she had continued Prisoner in England eighteen years she was brought to a Tryal and being charged with having been privy to several conspiracies against the Queens Life the Commissioners of the Star Chamber pronounced sentence against her and she was soon after beheaded though after her Death Queen Elizabeth was very much troubled and grieved The Duke of Alva a man of Tyrannical and Arbitrary Principles being sent Governour into the Low Countries by the Court of Spain a War broke out with great fury for he being an enemy to their nation destroyed all their priviledges brought in the Inquisition and endeavoured by all manner of cruelties to extirpate the Protestant Religion whereupon the Hollanders confederate together in a League Offensive and Defensive constituting the Prince of Orange their Commander in chief but finding their Forces too weak to oppose the King of Spain they sent an honourable Ambassy to Queen Elizabeth offering her the Soveraignty of Holland and Zealand as she was descended from the Earls of Holland by Philippa the Wife of K. Edward the third after consideration the Queen thanked them for their good Intentions toward her but added she could not receive those provinces into her protection yet would endeavour to prevail with the King of Spain for concluding a Peace Yet she afterward sent them twenty thousand pound which with several other provocations both upon the account of Policy and Religion so inraged the Pope and Spaniard that they conspired her utter destruction the King of Spain having prepared a Navy which the Pope Christened The Invincible Armado wherewith he designed to conquer and take possession of the Kingdom of England bestowed on him by the Pope but Queen Elizabeth providing a Fleet under the Lord Howard Sir Francis Drake and other valiant Commanders fell upon them and after several days fight utterly defeated them insomuch that the Spaniards lost in this expedition above fourscore Ships thirteen thousand five hundred Souldiers and above two thousand Prisoners taken in Ireland Zealand and the Low Countries so that there was no considerable family in Spain but either lost Son Brother or Kinsman in this great defeat The French King Henry the Fourth afrer long Wars with the House of Guise and the confederate Papists of the Holy League fearing that they would at last destroy him now turned from the Protestant Religion and having acquainted Queen Elizabeth with the necessity thereof she endeavoured to divert him therefrom writing to him in these very terms Alas VVhat grief what anxiety of mind hath befallen me since I heard this news VVas it possi●le that worldly respects should make you lay aside the fear of God Could you think that he who hath hitherto upheld and kept you would now at the last leave you It is a dangerous thing to do evil that good may come thereof but I hope your mind may alter In the mean while I pray for you and beg of God that the hands of Esau may not hinder the blessing of Jacob To which K. Henry replied That though he had done this in his own Person out of necessity yet he would never be wanting to those of the reformed Religion but would take them into his special care and Protection However this his compliance did not save his life for having raised a great Army one Ravilliack a bloody Villain murdered him in his Coach in the Streets of Paris declaring the chief motive thereof to be because he suspected him still a Hugonot and that those Forces were designed against the Pope The Queen now assisted the Hollanders with considerable Forces under the Earl of Leicester and others and sent the Earl of Essex with a gallant Navy who took Cales the Castle being redeemed for 580000 Duckets and a vast quantity of Amunition and Money found in the Town The Spaniards offered Sir VValter Rawleigh two Millions of Duckets to free their Ship from firing but he said He was sent to destroy Ships not to dismiss them upon Composition the loss was judged 20000000 of Duckets by this Expedition In the mean time Tyrone breaking into Rebellion in Ireland got a great victory over the English and after some debate the Earl of Essex was sent thither with ample Authority but not meeting with expected success he returned to England without the Queens permission whereupon he was committed to custody and brought to a private Tryal but upon his submission was again set at liberty yet being reproached with want of Courage by some of the Cabal he turned Malecontent and used all means to gain the Peoples love resolving to seize on the Queen but being disappointed he retired into the City endeavouring to ingage the Citizens on his side which not being able to effect he at length surrendred himself to the Lord Admiral and was sent to the Tower with his great friend the Earl of Southampton both whom being Try'd were found guilty of Treason and Essex was beheaded but Southampton pardoned several of their confederates being likewise executed Soon after Queen Elizabeth died at Richmond in her Bed after she had wonderfully escaped abundance of Popish Conspiracies against her life there being above 100 Persons executed at several times during her Reign for designing to destroy her whereof sixty seven were Jesuits she reigned forty four years lived sixty nine and died March 24. 1602. of whom this Epitaph was written None like Elizabeth was found in learning so divine She had the perfect skilful art of

with divers Torments as Conspirators for delivering the Town to the French which was thus gallantly regained to King Henry The Duke of Exeter Tutor to the Kings Person dying at this time the Earl of Warwick was sent to England to take that Charge and the Renowned Earl of Salisbury with an Army of 10000 Men was sent into France with which he besieged the strong City of Orleance upon the River Loyer which had been lately strongly fortified where after two Months Siege the Earl was slain and the Earl of Suffolk succeeded as General who pressed the Siege so close that the Besieged being hopeless of Succour offered to surrender the Town to the Duke of Burgundy who refused it without the Consent of the Duke of Bedford the Regent who though persuaded thereto would by no means consent since he himself had undergone all the Trouble hitherto This Answer pierced the Duke of Burgundy to the Heart so that from thenceforward his Affections grew cold toward the English and he became a secret Well-willer to the French During this Parley a young Maid of about eighteen years old was presented to the French King at Chinon who pretended she was sent from God to deliver France from the English Bondage and thereupon she was called The Mother of God however she in this extremity was believed by the Common People and being armed like a Man she rides to Blois and in company with the Admiral and Marshal of France enters Orleance with fresh Forces and Provisions which so encouraged the Besieged that they issued out at midnight and fell upon the English staying 600 of them in an instant but assaulting the Bastile where the Lord Talbot was he issued out so courageously that they were forced to fly on every side and with very great Loss hardly escaped into the Town but however the next day the Earl of Suffolk raised the Siege This Deliverance was attributed by the Citizens of Orleance to the Conduct of the Martial Maid who was called Joan of Arc and therefore they erected a Monument wherein she and Charles the Seventh King of France were represented kneeling in Armour with their Hands and Eyes toward Heaven After this the English had very doubtful Success for the next day after raising the Siege the Lord Talbot won the strong Town and Castle of Laval and a few days after the Duke of Alanson with Joan of Arc took the Town of Jargeux and in it the Earl of Suffolk and one of his Brothers Prisoners killing another The Duke of Alanson's Army being newly reinforced to near 20000 Men hapned to meet with the Lords Talbot Scales and Hungerford who were marching with onely 5000 to fortifie another Town upon whom the French fell with great fury insomuch that the three Lords were taken Prisoners and 1200 of their Men slain the rest flying into the Town Upon this Defeat several Cities Towns and Castles immediately surrendred to the French King who soon after took Rhemes and was there Crowned which gained him a great Opinion and caused many more Places to be delivered to him and then attempted to take the City of Paris but by the Valour of the English were repulsed and defeated The Duke of Bedford observing the Success which followed upon the Coronation of King Charles caused King Henry likewise to be Crowned at Paris in the Tenth year of his Age and Reign having been Crowned two years before at Westminster About this time a Truce was concluded for Six years which yet lasted not Three And now the Duke of Bedford's Lady who was Sister to the Duke of Burgundy dying soon after her Brother forsakes the English and joyns with the French King which was followed with the taking of St. Dennis and within two years after the Regent died and was buried at Roan whereat the Citizens some years after complained to Lewis who succeeded Charles but the King publickly protested That he deserved a more sumptuous Sepulchre who in his Life-time scorned to stir a Foot back for all the Power of France and that there was no greater Sign of Baseness and Cowardice than to insult over those when dead whom they durst not withstand while alive The French King now proceeds victoriously and Joan of Arc afore-mentioned accompanying the Duke of Alanson takes in many Towns and endeavouring to raise the Siege of Champaigne they enter the City in despite of the English but afterward sallying forth their Troops were beaten and Joan her self taken Prisoner by John of Luxemburgh a Burgundian Knight who for the value of 10000 l. and 300 Crowns a year delivered her to the English who sent her to the Bishop of Bevoirs in whose Diocess she was taken by whom for Sorcery Blood-shed and unnatural use of Manly Apparel she was burnt to death at Roan Many Opinions were held of her Some thought her miraculously raised for the Deliverance of France others that she was a Cheat and Impostor and her Epitaph seems to infer the same Here lies Joan of Arc the which Some count Saint and some count Witch Some count Man and something more Some count Maid and some a Whore Her Life 's in question Wrong or Right Her Death 's in doubt by Law or Might Oh Innocence take heed of it How thou too near to Guilt dost sit Mean while France a Wonder saw A Woman rule ' gainst Salique Law But Reader be content to stay Thy Censure till the Judgment-day Then shalt thou know and not before Whether Saint Witch Man Maid or Whore After the death of the Noble Regent the valiant Duke of Bedford Richard Duke of York succeeded in his room to the great regret of Edmond Duke of Somerset the Kings Cousin which occasioning private Hatred made way for publick Mischief For soon after the City of Paris revolted and divers others followed that Example At this time Queen Katherine the Kings Mother died who after the King her Husbands death married a handsom Gentleman named Owen Tudor who though of mean Estate yet was descended from Cadwallader the last King of t●e Brittains by whom she had two Sons Edmund and Jasper the eldest of whom was by King Henry the Sixth created Earl of Richmond and married Margaret sole Heir to John Duke of Somerset on whom he begot Henry the Seventh In a little while the Duke of York is removed and the Earl of Warwick is put in his Place by the Council of England and from henceforth the Affairs in France succeeded worse every day which was occasioned by the Wisdom of the French Nobility who grew sensible of their miserable Divisions and now united against the English Another Reason was the unhappy Marriage of the King with Margaret the Daughter of Reyner King of Sicily a poor Prince so that he had nothing with her and which was worse King Henry was obliged by the Articles of this Marriage to give to her Father all his Right and Title to the Counties of Anjou and Mayn which bordered upon Normandy