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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

Whisperers of their own Inclinations and because they see nothing at the present spring up they forget that the Roots grow undiscern'd And no Questio●● the King in that Conjuncture of Time thought every Cloud dispers'd and pursued all those fatal ways that mistaken Flattery cou'd guide him in But a particular Accident made way for a general and fatal Revolution The Duke of Hereford one day discoursing with the Duke of Norfolk complain'd how much the King was misguided by mean and base Counsellors such as fought their own private Interest and not the publick Good and fear'd that the King following such Councels would so lose the Hearts of his People that it might prove dangerous to him Assuring him that no private displeasure urg'd him to say this but meerly his love to his King and Country and therefore desir'd the Duke being one of the King's Cabinet-Council to lay these things before him which might prove of ill Consequence if continued The Duke of Norfolk seemed not to dislike what had been said but so represented it to the King that he turn'd it rather to an Accusation than a Counsel The King that could not endure to hear unpleasant Truths and at that Instant looking upon himself as above the mean Consideration of publick Notions so resented the boldness of the Duke of Hereford that he summon'd him to answer this that now became his Charge before the Council where the Duke confirmed his Information which was deny'd by the Duke of Hereford owning all that he had said but the Duke of Norfolk maintaining the Accusation the Combat was demanded and assented to and the day appointed by the King At which time both the Dukes appear'd arm'd and being just ready to be engag'd they were stopt by the King and Banishment pronounced against both the Dukes The Duke of Norfolk dyed suddenly after at Venice having enjoy'd no great Benefit by those Violences he so precipitately engaged in A little after dyed John of of Gaunt Father to the Duke of Hereford and fourth Son of Edward the Third after whose death the Dutchy of Lancaster fell to this Dukes being his eldest Son. But the King in his deceiv'd opinion of Power and Security acted the most probale means to shake both seizing all the Duke's New-descended Estate into his own hands and endeavour'd to make his Banishment perpetual Revoking all his Letters Patents to prevent the suing out the Livery for those Lands during his Banishment If this be well consider'd 't is impossible a King should do it purely from his own advice First he enrag'd a Person that could only be a considerable Enemy his Popularity gave him an Interest in Power and his Descent from a King the Pretence to use it This could be no Motive from right Reason to urge the King to do such an imprudent Injustice he was above the Temptation of a private Estate but his Ministers were tempted by it following the usual Methods of their Counsels by no Considerations but Revenge and Interest as if their Safeties were grounded upon nothing so much as their Princes Hazard and their Advantages upon his Prejudice As the Testimony of the prevalency of these Counsellors the King left all the Business to them and gave himself up wholly to Sloth and Pleasure The imitation spread into Luxury and Effeminacy and the King thought it was the Testimony of Arbitrary Power to live uncontrolled to such a loose Condition all Power but this shadow of it was exercis'd by his Ministers who now depress'd all Persons of either Courage or Honour A Valiant Man was counted dangerous and a Wise Man Mutinous and every one was made perceive that 't was easier to prosper by following their Princes Humour than to pursue his Interest and Honour The Ministers being grown into Absolute power thought of nothing but how to satisfie their greedy Ambitions They pretended to get all for the King the sure way to convey it to themselves And indeed his Gifts were so large to them that they brought him into more wants than ever the Wars of his brave Ancestors could reduce them to and us'd more unjust Inventions to supply his private use than they needed publick Assistances to support the Interest and Honour of it But Edward the First and Edward the Third had a less Burthen and Charge to support They had a Kingdom and no Favourites the first was not capable to satisfie the latter For at this time without any publick occasion strange ways were us'd to levy Money sometimes Pole-money was exacted of every Religious Person and Secular Priest sometimes sums were drawn from the People under the name of Benevolence sometimes Money borrow'd by Privy Seals Then Commissioners sent to all Sheriffs and Corporations declaring the King 's High Displeasure for the kindness they testified to the Duke of Glocester the Earls of Arundel and Warwick and for this affection shew'd to the King's Enemies his Pardon was to be obtain'd by heavy Fines or rather Taxes laid upon them The Commons were bound by new-invented Oaths to perform what they engag'd to and black Charters Sealed and Deliver'd to the King's use whereby their Liberty might be as well taken away as their Properties had been By such Counsels as these the Subjects were turn'd to Slaves and made waiters upon any Opportunities to shake off their Fetters The King made believe he govern'd most when he had none to Govern For Slaves are not in the Business of Mankind their Thoughts are fix'd upon Revenge and Freedom and like distemper'd Men seldom return to their former Composures The first occasion that prov'd this true was a Rebellion that broke out in Ireland the opportunity of which Diversion favour'd the Earl of Northumberland to gather Forces in the North. And others of the Nobility and People weary of their Oppressions resolv'd in the King's absence to attempt some relief and fixt upon the Duke of Hereford as the proper Instrument to act by His Banishment that the King design'd to make perpetual was the Cause of that mischief which he believ'd he should prevent by it He now became the Center to which all other Discontents tended to whom now resorted many of his former Friends and others whom Oppression now made so Among these the Archbishop of Canterbury was the Chief who in Speech to the Duke of Hereford laid open their Grievances and Desires summing up all the Mischiefs and Misfortunes of an unsteady Government the Contempt it spread abroad and Oppression at home not Slaves to their Prince but to his Favourites and that Peace under their Extortions was more chargeable than War The Expence of their Riots and Ambitions needed more Projects and Taxes to maintain them than the Defence and Support of the Government it self requir'd By their Cruelties most of the Nobility were destroyed and the Commonalty wasted concluding with imploring the Duke to pity the Oppression of his Countrey and to animate those that were ready to redeem themselves from Slavery by