beyond all which was the purchase of the Union between the two Houses of Yorke and Lancaster and a peaceable succession in the Throne for a long while to come It must be granted that there fell therewith an unhappy inconvenience in the raising of a new Nobility of the Queenes kindred of whom the ancient stock of Nobility thought scorn and yet they were so considerable as to be envied A wound hard to be cured and yet easily avoyded by such as know how to deny themselves And therefore can be no prejudice unto that conclusion That for an English King to marry his own Subject is more safe for the King and beneficiall for the Kingdome then to marry a Stranger But Edward the fourth did not long lye underneath upon the next faire Gale he comes from beyond the Sea and like his first predecessor of the House of Lancaster claimes only his Dutchy which no man could in reason deny to be his right and therfore were the sooner ingaged with him in that accoust This was an Act that in the first undertaking seemed modest but when it was done appeared too bold to adventure it upon the Censure of Henry the sixth and therefore they were not more ready to ingage then slack to disingage till they were secure in the Kings interest which not long after ensued by the death of Henry the sixth Thus Edward the fourth recovered the Crowne to save his Dutchy His Government was not sutable for he came in by the People but indeavored to uphold himself by forrain dependences as if he desired to spread his roots rather wide then deep how ill this choise was the event shewed for plants that root wide may be strong enough against an outward storme but they soon grow old barren and roâ—t irrecoverably from beneath Such was the end of this mans Government himselfe lived and died a King and left Issue both male and female the one tasted the Government the other kissed it but neither of them ever enjoyed further then a bare title Nor was the Government of Edward the fourth so secured by these ingagements of Forrainers for as he sought to delude so he was deluded both by Burgundy and Scotland to the prejudice of all three Towards his owne People his carriage was not so much by Law as by Leave for he could fetch a course out of the old way of rule satisfie himselfe dissatisfie others and yet never was called to account What was done by intreaty no man could blame and where entreaties are countenanced by Power no man durst contradict Thanks to his Fate that had brought him upon a People tyred by Warrs scared by his successe and loath to adventure much for the House of Lancaster in which no courage was left to adventure for it selfe The greatest errour of his way was in the matter of Revenue the former times had been unhappy in respect of good husbandry and Edward the fourth was no man to gather heaps His occasions conduced rather to diffuse and his minde generally led the way thereto so as its the lesse wonder if he called more for accommodations then the Ordinary Treasury of the Crowne could supply Hereto therefore he used expedients which in his former times were more moderate for whiles Henry the sixth lived he did but borrow by privy Seale and take tonnage and poundage by way of hire Afterwards when no Starr appeared but what was inlightned from his own Sun he was more plaine and tried a new trick called Benevolence unwelcome it was not onely in regard of its owne nature but much more in the end for it was to serve the Duke of Burgundy in raising a Warr against France in the first view but in the conclusion to serve his own purse both from freinds and foes And yet this also passed without much controll for when displeasure was like to ensue he could speak faire and feast and if need was kisse away all discontent Towards his end as stale drinke he grew sowre For as in the first part of his reigne he had beene supplyed by good will against Law so in his later times he had gotten a trick of supply by Law against good will This was by penall Laws which are a remedy if they be used Ad terrorem but if strained beyond that the remedy proveth worse then the disease in their first institution they are formes of courtesie from the People to the King but in the rigorous execution of them are trialls of mastery of the King over the People and are usually laid up against dayes of reckoning between the Prince and them Those penall Laws are best contrived that with the greatest terrour to the Delinquent bring the least profit to the Kings Coffers Once for all this Kings Acts were many his enterprises more but seldome attaining that end which they faced He was a man of Warr and did more by his Fame then his Sword was no sooner resolved in good earnest but he died left a Kingdome unassured his Children young and many freinds in shew but in truth very few Now if ever was the Kingdome in a trance Edward the fourth left a Son the Prima materia of a King and who lived long enough to be inrolled amongst English Kings yet served the place no further then to be an occasion to fill up the measure of the wickednesse of the Duke of Glocester and a monument of Gods displeasure against the House of Edward the fourth whether for that breach of oath or treachery against Henry the sixth or for what other cause I cannot tell But at the best this Prince was in relation to his Unkle the Duke of Glocester little other then as an Overseer to an Executor that might see and complaine but cannot amend For the Duke ruled over-ruled and mis-ruled all under the name of Edward the fifth and left no monument of good Government upon record till he changed both the Name and Person of Edward the fifth to Richard the third his Fame had lifted him up and might have supported him had he regarded it But as no man had more honor before he ascended the Throne so no man ever entred and sate theron with lesse his proceeds were from a Protector to an Usurper and thence to a Tyrant a scourg to the whol Nation especially the Nobility and lastly an instrument of Gods revenge upon himself a man made up of Clay and Blood living not loved and dying unlamented The manner of his Government was strained having once won the saddle he is loath to be cast knowing himself guilty all over and that nothing could absolve his Fame but a Parliament he calls it Courts it and where his wit could not reach to Apologize hee makes whole by recompence takes a way benevolences he is ready to let them have their present desires what can they have more He promiseth good behaviour for the future which he might the better do because he had already attained
Livery so long as he may live without care and spend without controll For by this time the humour of his great Grand-father budded in him he pawned his heart to young men of vast desires and some say so inordinately as he prostituted his chastitie unto them And it s no wonder if the Revenues of the Crowne are insufficient for such Masters Thiâ— the people soon felt and feared their own Free-holds for they are bound saith he not to see the Crowne deflowred for want of maintenance it s very true nor to see the Crowne deflowred of its maintenance A Parliament therefore is called in which diverse Lords associate and prepare Physick for the Kings lavish humour which being administred wrought for ten yeares after till it had purged him of his life and the Kingdome of their King It was an Act of Parliament that gave power to fourteen Lords and others to regulate the Profits and Revenues of the Crowne and to doe Justice to the People this was to continue for one whole yeare The Parasites no sooner found the effect hereof to their Cost but the King growes sicke of it and findes an Antidote to over-rule Acts of Parliament by Acts of Privy Councell declares this ill-favoured Commission voide and the Contrivers Advisers and Inforcers Traytors To make it more Majesticall he causeth the Judges to Subscribe this Order and so it becomes Law in repute This foundation thus laid he buildeth in hast an Impeachment of these Commissioners of high Treason and supposing that they would not readily stoope himselfe stoopes lower for he would put his Right to triall by battell which was already his owne by the judgement of the Masters of the Law For so they may be well called seeing they had thus Mastered it In this the King had the worst for he lost his Honour and himselfe God hath a care of common right even amongst Idolaters Then comes the Parliament of Wonders wherein the Kings Party are declared Traytors and the chiefe Judges with their Law judged by another Law The King not medled with thinks it high time to come out of his Minority and assumes the Government of the Kingdome and himselfe to himself being now three and twenty yeares of age old enough to have done well if he had cared for it But resolving to follow the way of his owne will at length it led him to his owne ruine onely for the present two things delayed it Viz. The Authority Wisedome and Moderation of his Unckles especially of the Duke of Lancaster now come out of Spain and the great affection which the King pretended to the Queen who had also gained a good opinion amongst the People The benevolent aspect of the People not for their owne advantage but for the Publick quiet procured many Parlies and interviewes between the King and People and many Lawes for the upholding of the Court and Government although both Warre Lawes Justice and Councells all are faint as all is faint in that man that hath once dismanned himself This he perceives well enough and therefore Peace he must have by any means The Queen dies himselfe being nigh eight and twenty yeares old takes a Creature like a Wife but in truth a Childe of eight yeares old and this is to get Peace with France It s no wonder if now he hunts after unlawfull game and that being ill taken brings all things out of order For abused Marriage never wants woe Civill men are now looked upon as severe Cators and his Unckles especially the Duke of Glocester with a jealous eye which accomplished his death in the conclusion The Dukes of Lancaster and Yorke forsake the Court Favorites step into their roomes The old way of the eleventh yeare is re-assumed Belknap and others are pardoned and made of the Cabinet The Pardon of the Earle of Arundell is adnulled contrary to the advise of the major part and the Arch Bishop the Earles brother is banished The Lords forsake the wilfull King still the Kings jealousie swells The Duke of Hertford is banished or rather by a hidden Providence sent out of the way for a further worke The Duke of Lancaster dies and with him all hope of moderation is gone for he was a wise Prince and the onely Cement that held the joynts of the Kingdome in correspondency And he was ill requited for all his Estate is seised upon The Duke of Hertford and his Party are looked upon by the People as Martyrs in the Common Cause and others as Royalists Extremities hasten on and Prerogative now upon the wing is towering above reach In full Parliament downe goes all the worke of the tenth and eleventh yeares Parliament which had never bin if that Parliament had continued by adjournment The King raiseth a Power which he calleth his Cuard of Cheshire men under the terror of this displaying rod the Parliament Kingdom are brought to Confession Cheshire for this service is made a Principality thus goes Counties up and Kingdoms down The Kings Conscience whispers a sad Message of dethroning and well it might be for he knew he had deserved it Against this danger he intrenches himself in an Act of Parliament That made it Treason To purpose and endeavor to depose the King or levy War against him or to withdraw his Homage hereof being attainted in Parliament And now he thought he was well guarded by Ingagement from the Parliament but he missed the right Conclusion for want of Logique For if the Parliament it self shall depose him it cannot be made a Traytor or attaint it selfe and then hath the King gain'd no more then a fals birth But the King was not thus quiet the sting of guilt still sticks within and for remedy he will unlaw the Law and gets it enacted that all Procurers of the Statute of 10. Richard the Second and the Commission and Procurers of the Kings assent thereto and hinderers of the Kings proceedings are adjudged Traitors All these reach onely the branches the root remains yet and may spring again and therefore in the last place have at the Parliament it self For by the same its further declared That the King is the sole Master of the Propositions for matters to be treated in Parliament and all gainsayers are Traitors Secondly That the King may dissolve the Parliament at his pleasure and all gainsayers are Traitors Thirdly That the Parliament may not proceed against the Kings Justices for offences by them committed in Parliament without the Kings consent and all gainsayers are Traitors These and the like Aphorismes once Voted by the Cheshire men assented unto by the Parliament with the Kings Fiat must passe for currant to the Judges and if by them confirmed or allowed will in the Kings opinion make it a Law for ever That the King and all Parliaments is Dominus fac primum and Dominus fac totum But the Judges remembred the tenth yeare and Belknaps intertainment and so dealt warily their opinion is thus
his ends Thus in one Parliament for he could hold no more he gave such content as even to wonderment he could as soone finde an army in the feild to fight for him as the most meritorious of his Predecessors His ill title made him very jealous and thereby tought his best freinds to keep at a distance after which time few escaped that came within his reach and so he served Gods judgement against his adjutants though he understeod it not Amongst the rest the Duke of Buckingham his great Associate both in the Butchery of the two young Princes and usurpation of the Royall Scepter he lived till he had laid the Foundation of better times in the Person of Henry the seventh and then received his reward But an ill Conscience must be continually fed or it will eat up its owne wombe The Kings minde delivered from feare of the Sonnes of Edward the Fourth now dead torments himselfe with thoughts of his Daughter alive ashamed he is of Butchery of a Girle he chooseth a conceit of Basterdizing the Children of Elizabeth Graye that calleth her self Queen of England but this proved too hard to concoct soon after that he goes a contrary way The Lady Elizabeth Graye is now undoubted Wife of Edward the Fourth and her eldest Daughter as undoubted Heire to the Crown And so the King will now be contented to adventure himself into an incestuous Marriage with her if his own Queen were not in the way onely to secure the Peace of the Kingdome which he good King was bound in Conscience to maintain though with the perill of his owne Soule and in this zeale of his Conscience his Queen soon went out of the way and so Love is made to the young Lady But Henry Earle of Richmond was there before and the Lady warily declined the choice till the golden Apple was won which was not long after accomplished the King loosing both the Lady his Crowne and owne life together put an end to much wickednesse and had the end thereof in Bosworth-Feild CHAP. XXIV Of the Government in relation to the Parliament THe seasons now in Tract were of short continuance lives passed away more speedily then years and it may seem uselesse to inquire what is the nature of the Government in such a time when as the greatest work was to maintain life and soul together and when all is done little else is done For though the Title of the House of Yorke was never so clear against that of Lancaster yet it had been so long darkned with a continuall Succession of Kings of the Red-Rose that either by their merit had gained a Throne in the Peoples hearts or by their facility had yeilded their Throne up to the Peoples will as it proved not easie to Convince them that liked well their present Lot and were doubtfull of change or to make them tender of the right of Edward the Fourth above their own quiet Above threescore years now had England made triall of the Government of the Lancastrian Princes and thereof about thirty years experience had they of Henry the Sixth they saw he was a gentle Prince On the other side Edward the Fourth newly sprung up out of a Root watered with blood himself also a Man for the Feild This might well put the minds of the People to a stand what to think of this Man whose nature and ends are so doubtfull and brought nothing to commend him to the good wills of the People but his bare Title which the common sort usually judge of according as they see it prosper more or lesse Add hereunto that Divine Providence did not so clearly nor suddenly determine his secret purpose concerning this change by any constant successe to either part by means whereof the one half of Edward the Fourths reign was spent while as yet Henry the Sixth was in veiw and the minds of men left unassured neither trusting much to Edward the Fourth nor he to them and after that Henry the Sixth was gone out of the way Edward the Fourth could not readily change his posture used Arguments of force and power and for the most part looked like a Man in Armes with his hand on his sword ready to draw upon the next man that stands in his way Thus are the People partly driven and partly drawn into an Oath of Allegiance unto Edward the Fourth under perill of Attainder and the Parliament assured unto him once more For immediately upon the departure of Edward the Fourth beyond Sea after tenne yeares of his Reign the Parliament never staying for the issue of Providence declared the Throne void of Edward the Fourth and Henry the Sixth King The Judges likewise of the Courts at Westminster determined the same thing as may appear by the Law Reports of those times in Print wherein Re-attachments were often granted by them upon discontinuance of processe by this Demise of Edward the Fourth And thus Henry the Sixth is once more King for six moneths Viz. from October to Aprill at which time the ballance turns Edward the Fourth returns gets into the Throne Henry the Sixth is again Dethroned all things are as they were and all confirmed by Act of Parliament For that Body is ever wise enough to side with power rather then to spend much time upon fruitless Orders and Votes that will peirce no Armour and therefore like the times must needs be subject to fits of distemper at the comming in of every Tide and did build and pull down Enact and disenact turn and return the English Crown from Yorke to Lancaster and back again and in conclusion for some time did do little but undo Nor can they be justly censured herein for Councells of men are not ordained to hinder Divine Providence or over-rule Fate but to foresee and close with occasions in the most advantageous way for the Publique good and when both winds and Currents are uncertain to ride at flote till they can discern the most commodious Haven to Winter in To impute therefore fault unto the Parliament in such Cases for want of Uniformity and Immutability of Councells is somewhat like the Notion that Batchelours conceit of Wives they would have but they do not know what other then an Idea of their own Fancy Now if it be inquired which course prevailed in order either to the Kings Royalty or the Peoples Liberty I shall answer neither of these but the House of Yorke prevailed to hold the Crown and might have advanced the Authority thereof had they not falne out amongst themselves for the spoyle and Edward the Fourth was not altogether disposed thereto The successe that he had in the Feild and his Souldiery made him look big like a King of the greater size but Kings sleep not securely upon such pillowes when the Militia is on hors-back it is as ready to be a Guard upon the King as for him and when it is most sober not so easily governed as a Common-wealth And
now treat She was a compleat Conquerour of War and Treason and therein the true Inheritor of the Fate of her Grand-father Henry the seventh with advantage for she out-faced all Dangers by her onely presence having therof had more experience then any Princes that ever possessed her Throne yet she was wise enough to beware against the future considering her condition to be the last of her Line that the next behinde her was rather likely to trip up her heels then support her Train that the Pope narrowly watched every opportunity the distance between him and the Throne being no greater then the breadth of her onely Person It may well therefore admit of excuse if the Statute of the 15. of Edward the third concerning Treasons did not give satisfaction although therein if she were solicitous her Subjects were more Some kindes of Offences were made Treason by Statute-Laws which formerly appeared not such because they appeared not at all and yet in the opinion of her People the Queen was too slack in the making and more slack in the execution of them The People had ingaged themselves deeply against the Queen of Scots and it was not safe for them to go back they go yet deeper and without any positive Authority leading the way they enter into an Association amongst themselves for the Queens safety and it was well liked by the Queen because she knew it was well meant although by some it was mistaken nevertheless to take away all Exception a Law is made in pursuance thereof and so the Work is reduced under an ordinary rate though the publique Danger was such as might well have digested an extraordinary undertaking I intend not to enter into the particulars of these Treasons of the new stamp because they are but temporary and in their ultimate reach tend onely to the safeguard of the Queens person in order to the intentionary sense of the Statute of 25. Edw. 3. although not within the explicit words of that Law Onely this is observable that though the Times were full of malice yet was not all malice looked upon as fatal nor every Expression thereof Treason or privity thereto Treason although the Crown it self was not a little concerned therein but reduced to an inferiour degree called Misprision as if they were willing rather to construe undertakings for mistakings and thereby overlook much of the malignity of those Times then to make strict inquisition into every Punctilio of Offence As touching Felony the Rules were various some were of a new original as that of Gipsies others formerly such afterwards said aside are now revived with advantage as Conjuration and Buggery but Imbessellings by Servants of their Masters Goods made Felony for a time by Edward the sixth is by Queen Elizabeth made perpetual Some Felonies are made such within a certain precinct as Men-stealers and other Crimes upon the Scottish Borders Others formerly made Felony are now unmade as that concerning Prophesies and divers formerly protected under the refuge of Clergy are now barred of that reserve Such as are those that command Councel or hire others to commit Pettie Treason Murder or Robbery 4 5 Phil. Mar. cap. 4. Stealers of Horses Geldings or Mares 2 E. 6. cap. 33. Robbers of Houses Booth or Tent by Day or Night 5 E. 6. cap. 9. Pick-pockets or Cut-purses 8 Eliz. cap. 4. And Women-stealers 39 Eliz. cap. 9. And some Crimes made Felony impeachable onely within a certain time and not upon a cool suite so as upon the whole heap of the Account the zeal of the Times will appear to be more hot by how much iniquity appeared more hainous and that wicked men waxed worse as the Times waxed better More particulars of this nature and of other Offences of inferior note might be superadded as also of Laws of alteration and amendment of Process and Triall and of Common Assurance and Conveyance of Estates of particular Revenue all which might be insisted upon if need were to clear out yet further the conclusion of the whole matter which I hasten to accomplish led on by a natural motion that grows in speed the nigher it comes to its end CHAP. XL. A summary Conclusion upon the whole matter IN the stating of this whole account I shall first glance upon the naturall constitution of the People of England and then gather up the scattered Notions into one form because the one doth not a little illustrate the other and shew the same to be radicall and not by any forced inoculation The People are of a middle temper according to their Climate The Northern Melancholly and the Southern Choller meeting in their generall Constitution doth render them ingenious and active which nourished also under the wings of Liberty inspires a courage generous and not soon out of breath Active they are and so nigh to pure act that nothing hurts them more then much quiet of which they had little experience from their first transmigration till the time of King James but ever were at work either in building as before the Norman times or after in repairing their ruines occasioned by tempestous pretentions from Rome and Forrain Princes or by earth-quakes of Civill contention about the Title between the two Houses of Yorke and Lancaster or intrenchments of the Crown upon the Liberty of the People But King James conquering all enmity spake Peace abroad and sang Lullaby at home Yet like a dead calm in a hot spring treasured up in store sad distempers against a back Winter Their Ingenuity will not allow them to be excellent at the cheat but are rather subject in that kinde to take then give and supposing others as open hearted as themselves are many times in Treaties overmatched by them whom they overmatch in Armes Upon the same account they are neither imperous over those beneath nor stubborn against them above but can wel discern both person and time Man Woman or Child all is one with them they will honor Majesty where ever they see it And of the twain tender it more when they see it set upon infirmity as if they knew how to command themselves only in order to the publique good Nevertheless they love much to be free when they were under awe of the Popes Curse they bore off designes by the Head and Shoulders but afterwards by watchfullnesse and fore-sight and having attained a light in Religion that will own their Liberties of them both they make up one Garland not to be touched by any rude hand but as if it were the bird of the eye the whole body startles forthwith the allarme is soon given and taken and whether high or low none are spared that stand in their way This they do owe to the Easterne People from whom they fetch their Pedegree So as the only way to conquer them is to let them have their Liberties for like some Horses they are good for carriage so long as their burthens are easy and sit loose
Forrain and sudden invasion and attempts Thirdly the powers are not undefined but circumscribed 1. To Array such as are Armed so as they cannot assesse Armes upon such 2. To compell those of able Bodies and Estates to be Armed and those of able Estates and not able bodies to Arme such as are of able Bodies and not Estates but this must be Juxta facultates and salvo Statu 3. Whereas they straine themselves to make the Statute of Henry the Fourth and the Commission of Array to consist with the Statutes of 13 E. 1. 1 E. 3. and 25 E. 3. thereby they affirm so many more restrictions unto this power of Array as those Statutes are remediall in particular cases yet doe I not agree to their Glosses but leave them to the debate already published concerning the same Secondly as this power was not absolutely in the King so was it not originally from themselves because they had not the Legislative Power concerning the same but the same was ever and yet is in the Parliament hereof I shall note onely three particular instances First the Militia is a Posture that extendeth as well to Sea as Land That which concerneth the Sea is the Law of Marque and Reprisall granted to such of the People of this Nation as are pillaged by Sea by such as have the Kings Conduct or publique Truce And by this Law the Party pillaged had to recompence himself upon that man that had pillaged him or upon any other Subject of that Nation in case upon request made of the Magistrate in that Nation satisfaction be not given him for his wrong it was a Law made by the Parliament whereby the Chancellor had power to grant such Letters or Commission upon complaint to him made This was grounded upon the Statute of Magna Charta concerning Free Trade which had been prejudiced by the rigour of the Conservators of the Truce against the Kings Subjects although what was by them done was done in their own defence And by which means the Forrainers were become bold to transgress and the English fearfull in their own Charge and many laid aside their Trade by Sea and thereby the strength of the Kingdome was much impaired Nor is the Equity of this Law to be questioned for if the Magistrate upon complaint made grants not releif the offence becomes Publique and the Nation chargeable in nature of an Accessory after the Fact and so the next man liable to give satisfaction and to seek for releif at home The King then hath a power to grant Letters of Marque by Sea or Land and this power is granted by Parliament and this power is a limited power onely in particular cases in regard that many times these prove in nature of the first light skirmishes of a generall War Two other Instances yet remain concerning the Order and Government of the Souldiers in the Army the one concerning the Souldiers Pay Viz. That Captains shall not abate the Souldiers Wages but for their Cloathing under peril of Fine to the King The other concerning the Souldiers service That they shall not depart from their Colours without leave before the time of their Service be expired unlesse in case of sicknesse or other good cause testified and allowed by the Captain and such as shall doe otherwise shall suffer as Fellons Which Lawes could not have holden in force had they not been made by Parliament in respect that the Penalties concern the Estates and Lives of Men which are not to be invaded but by the Law of the Land so as both Captains and Souldiers as touching the Legislative power are not under the King in his Personall Capacity but under the Law of the Parliament Lastly as the rule of War was under the Legislative power of the Parliament so was the rule of Peace for whiles Henry the Sixth was in France which was in his tenth yeare from Saint Georges day till February following The Scots propound tearmes of Peace to the Duke of Glocester he being then Custos Regni which he referred to the Order of the Parliament by whom it was determined and the Peace concluded in the absence of the King and was holden as good and effectuall by both Kingdomes as if the King had been personally present in his full capacity CHAP. XXIII A Survey of the Reignes of Edward the Fourth Edward the Fifth and Richard the Third THe reign of Henry the Sixth was for the most part in the former parts of it like fire buried up in the ashes and in the later parts breaking out into a flame In the heat wherof the Duke of York after Fealty given by him to Henry the Sixth and dispensation gotten from the Pope to break his Faith lost his life and left his Sonne the Mark-grave to pursue his Title to the Crown which he claimed by Inheritance but more especially by Act of Parliament made upon the agreement between Henry the Sixth and his Father This was Edward the Fourth who neverthelesse reserved himself to the Election of the Lords and was by them received and commended to the Commons in the Feild by which meanes he gaining the Possession had also incouragement to maintain the same yet never held himself a King of full age so long as Henry the Sixth lived which was the one half of his reigne Nor did he though he held many Parliaments scarce reach higher then at reforming of Trade which was a Theame well pleasing to the People next unto their Peace which also the King carefully regarded For although he had been a Souldier of good experience and therewith successfull yet as one loath to trust too far either the constancy of the People of his own dominion or the fortune of War with his neighbouring Princes he did much by brave countenance and discourse and yet gain'd repute to the English for valour after the dishonorable times of Henry the sixth He had much to do with a wise King of France that knew how to lay out three or foure calme words at any time to save the adventure of his Peoples blood and make a shew of Mony to purchase the peaceable holding of that which was his only by force untill the winde proved more faire to bring all that continent under one head In his Government at home he met with many crosse gales occasioned principally by his owne rashnesse and neglect of the Earl of Warwicks approved freindship which he had turned into professed enmity And so weakned his own cause thereby that he was once under Water his Kingdome disposed of by a new intaile upon the Heires of Duke Clarence and so the Earle of Warwick remained constant to the House of York though this particular King was set aside Nor did he in all this gaine any thing but a Wife who though his subject and none of the greatest family neither brought any interest unto her Lord and Husband amongst forraine Princes brought neverthelesse a Pearle which was