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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44650	Historical observations upon the reigns of Edward I, II, III, and Richard II with remarks upon their faithful counsellors and false favourites / written by a person of honour.	Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.	1689 (1689)	Wing H2997; ESTC R36006	52,308	200

Crimes were prepared for the Duke he never committed a Jury of Lords were fix'd and it was not only design'd he shou'd be arrested but his Condemnation was as confidently resolved and concluded These things were not so secretly contriv'd but the Duke of Lancaster had notice of them and privately retir'd or rather fled to Pomfret-Castle where he prepar'd to defend himself and already Discontents grew so high that he wanted not assistance for it and grew so considerable that the Queen-Mother thought it worthy her pains in all respects to endeavour a Composure which she effected assisted by the apprehension of her Son and the Duty which the Duke of Lancaster seem'd yet to retain so that for this time every thing was compos'd unless their Minds which once shaken by indirectness and mistrust are seldom so purely clear'd but that some Seeds of Jealousie lie ready to spring upon the heat of any Difference Without Trust the Traffick amongst Dealers in petty things can never be carried on and much less the Commerce between Prince and Subjects without Credit The King now enter'd upon the assuming the Government into his own Hands and from this time grew liable to his own Errors appearing wholly regardless of all his great Relations and Nobility and only seem'd kind to a fondness of his Chancellor the Duke of Suffolk and the Duke of Ireland and their two subservient Friends the Archbishop of York and Tresilian the Chief Justice they that had now gain'd the possession of the King's Power and Inclination shew'd a great Testimony of their ill use of it by disposing the King against his brave Vncle the Duke of Gloucester and the Earls of Warwick and Arundel The King was now wholly possest by these Favourites and in a particular manner by the Chancellor Delapoole whose mean Birth was suitable to his Qualities His Vices so many that he was himself a Grievance and it seem'd a fatal unhappiness that the King's Conscience should be intrusted unto so bad a Keeper but the King was as violent in his Affections as others could be in their Displeasures He seldom regarded what others thought till necessity forced the Consideration These men that both fear'd and hated any men of Honour and Quality that might have Interest to cross their Designs laid hold of an Occassion to be rid of one of the greatest the Duke of Lancaster by assisting him with Forces to conquer Spain which he claim'd in right of his Wife Constance Daughter and Co-heir of Peter who was surnamed the Cruel King of Castile and Leon With very considerable Forces he sail'd for Spain He landed at the Troyne and at Compostella met with the King of Portugal where a Marriage was concluded with his Daughter and after some Incursions made into the Countrey of Castile a Peace and Marriage was also effected between the King of Spain's Eldest Son and Katharine of Lancaster and so resign'd the Title to Spain for a Composition by a sum of Money and a Pension This look't like the feeble Policy of violent and self-interested Counsellors which was applied to Men and not to Things as if the removal of Two or Three that oppos'd their Designs took all the Danger away that attended them As long as there were injured men they must have Enemies and their safety was no way probable but by better Principles and Practices Besides there were other Lords left behind made Popular by the same Errors But they design'd to ruine if they cou'd all that were in their way and after grew very busie in designing to murder the Duke of Glocester every day contriving some ill and by their heavy wickedness loading their King. A little after the Rebellion the King married with Anne the Daughter of the Emperour Charles the Fourth whom he loved passionately for whose sake he refus'd the Daughter of the Duke of Milan who was offer'd him and with her a Dowry much more considerable She liv'd with him Twelve Years but without Issue and died at Sheen by Richmond which great loss made the place ever hated after by the King who in all things shew'd he was a Man of great Affections which are unfortunate Vertues when wrong placed About this time the King declared Roger Mortimer his Heir and Successor who was the Son of Lionel Duke of Clarence Third Son of King Edward the Third who was afterwards killed in Ireland He also created his Uncles Edmund of Langley Duke of York and Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester and his Cousin Henry of Bullingbrooke Son and Heir to his Fourth Uncle John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Earl of Derby His Cousin Edward Plantagenet Son and Heir to his Uncle Edmund of Langley he created Earl of Rutland Sir John Holland Earl of Huntington and Thomas Mowbray Earl of Nottingham In the Parliament in which these Creations were made was exhibited a Charge of many Particulars and of very great Natures against Chancellor Delapoole in which one particular was the abusing and cozening the King. But this had only an Audience and no Examination which gave so much offence that an Aid demanded was denied and Reasons given that it was to no purpose to give money when the ill use of it was countenanced This seem'd a wrong Method to ask and be denied and at the same time neither to have Power enough to enforce nor Obligations to obtain but 't was not proper for his Favourites to tell him they doubted success with his Parliament since that were to own such apprehensions sprung from their ambitious Errors But Princes are rightly said to be us'd like froward Children flatter'd and condemn'd never to hear the Truth But the Parliament still pressed the Examination of the Charge and the Necessity of the King's Affairs concurring with their importunity procured what they so warmly desired The Cause was put to selected Noblemen to examine and a Subsidy seem'd the purchase of it which was afterwards granted The Cause then being heard by his Peers the Duke of Glocester and Earl of Arundel being Two of the Judges he was convicted deprived of his Office and Chattels and condemn'd to be executed But all this seem'd rather Arguments of Merit than Causes of Punishment For the King presently after restored him into the former Favour as if he had suffer'd for his sake Thus as Edward the Second received Gaveston from Banishment and his Subjects hate to his Arms and Love so this unfortunate and resembling King received this Earl of Suffolk from Execution and the Prosecution of his Parliament to increas'd Affection and Trust as if Crimes found out and prosecuted by a Parliament had been the Testimonies of Merit and Arguments for a Prince's Fnvour These unsteddy Councils increas'd mistrust in the Subjects who now began to see they were too light to make a Poisure with his Favourites And to confirm their worst apprehensions the Duke of Ireland who had been driven away by the Displeasure that was contracted against him now return'd with

Enemies and he then convey'd from the Tower of London to Leeds Castle in Kent and from thence to Pomfret Castle in Yorkshire for some little time there seem'd to be paid him some small Respects in the manner of his Attendance but that was but the Counterfeit Treatinf of the Shadow of a King which yet probably made him uneasy who enjoyed the Substantial Power For it is reported by some That King Henry should one day with a deep Sigh Deplore and Lament That neither he nor the Nation had a Friend that would pull up that Root from which Disquiets and Rebellion could only Spring 'T is probable that the Bishop of Carlisle's Oration arguing at that time against the Right of King Richard's being depos'd and the Right of Henry to succeed to the Crown and some Plots and Risings that afterwards happen'd might perhaps hasten the taking away the unfortunate Prince from all his Miseries but whether the King gave particular Orders or Encouragement by such words is uncertain but there never wanted Men barbarous enough to offer cruel Sacrifices to bloody Power and for the hopes of Favour and Reward rather guess what Mischief would be acceptable than stay to be instructed that their Merits might seem to be enlarged by their readiness in Villany Some of these Causes made Sir Peirce Exton with eight other Villains hasten to Pomfret as if he feared he should be depriv'd of the Honour of the Action when he arriv'd the Preface to the intended Cruelty was the forbearance of that Ceremony of Tasting that was usually paid King Richard as he sat at Dinner who demanded the Reason of it He that used to perform it answer'd That Sir Peirce Exton had brought such Orders from King Henry at which the King seem'd so much transported that he Struck at him and call'd him Huzzy of Lancaster at which time Sir Peirce Exton with his bloody Followers entred and shut the Door after him which being perceiv'd by the King he verily guessed their fatal Intentions and seeming less surprized in this great and threatning Danger than in all the former tho lesser Hazards he readily and boldly snatched a Halbert and with a Resolution differing from his former Actions Slew four of the Assassinates and with continued Bravery fought with the rest till the chief Villain Exton got upon a Chair behind him and with a Pole-Ax struck him down where the unfortunate King ended all his Calamities and left the Murderer to endure future Torments For when he returned again expecting great Preferments and Rewards he found himself deceiv'd not only in the hopes of an Addition of Favour but in the Loss of what he had not considering that tho a Man might be Ill enough to wish a Mischief he hardly could be so confidently Bad as publickly to Reward the Doer of it that counterfeit Piece of Justice was probably shewed by the King to seem at least to hate what he wish't by Discountenancing the Actor of the Ill who now began by Discontent to make way for a punishing Conscience which continued him in Torments during his short and miserable Life and left an Infamy to outlive him It is observable that in the two greatest Exigencies of this Prince's Life he appear'd differing from himself one in Resignation of his Crown the other in the Loss of his Life the first he did with a steady Calmness almost above the Temper of a Man the last with a Courage equal to the Bravest in smaller Concerns he seem'd unsteady and amaz'd in these great ones firm and unconcern'd but in these Extremities he was not cloy'd with those Favourites and Ministers that influenc'd him with their Weakness and shook his Mind with their Indirectness making not only their Cause to be his but his Nature theirs This seem'd justified by his Behaviour in these last and greatest Extremities when acting wholly from himself he intitled himself at last to his Father's and Grandfather's the Black Prince's Courage and Virtue and shew'd himself Dying what they never gave him leave to appear Living THE COMPARISON HAving now finished with some Reflections on the chief Accidents in the Reigns of Edward and Richard II. and believing it to be too tedious to take the same Methods with Edward I. and Edward III. I thought it was not improper to Extract their Characters that by the Comparison of them all the reasonable Causes may further appear of the unhappy Condition of the two first and the prosperous Fortunes of the two others which will shew the fatal and mighty Difference in a Prince's using himself and being used by others between the steddiness of a strong Mind and the indirectness of a weak one Edward I. and Edward III. resembled one another Edward and Richard II. were also alike So that their Comparisons may be made as if between Two Persons which will shew the Causes of the mighty Differences that succeeded with them Edward I. and Edward III. came both to the Crown after it had been shaken by the Errors of both their Fathers Henry III. and Henry II. Edward and Richard II. came both to the Crown after it had been setled by the Virtues and Valour of the Father and Grandfather Edward I. and Edward III. Edward I. and Edward III. were both Men Earlier than others and Victorious before others used to attempt Victory So that before they were Kings they shew'd how fit they were to be so Edward and Richard II. never appear'd Men till they were to be so no more They never attempted true Glory and before they were Kings gave little Testimony of their fitness to be so Edward I. and Edward III. were able to Judge yet never unwilling to hear the Judgment of others They were deliberate in resolving but firm in their Resolutions unshaken in Dangers steddy and equal in Safety Their Promises were Mankind's Security and Truth their Wisdom Their great Virtues and Courage made the Nation expect Success from all their Actions Edward and Richard II. never appear'd able to Judge but wholly submitted to the interested Opinion of others They were inconstant in all Conditions in Prosperity bold and violent in Danger fearful and temperate Their Promises were no Security and Dissimulation was their Policy So that from such Methods of Government the Nation could expect no Success or Happiness Edward I. and Edward III. grew fierce by Opposition and gentle by Submission They seldom denied Pardon to those that implor'd it nor suffer'd any abused Mercy unrevenged They were Mighty enough to conquer Enemies and Powerful enough to forgive those they conquer'd They were equally Victorious both to Themselves and Others and those that submitted proved always more fortunate than those that resisted Edward and Richard II. were submissive when oppos'd and fierce when submitted to They always abus'd the Tenderness of others and seldom shew'd any of their own never forgiving where they had opportunity to punish They neither had Power nor Design to conquer Enemies but used both to overcome