Hen. VI. Naval Expeditions? ska of the English, Book I

1421.Henry goesagain toFrance.

Birch ofPrince Hen-ry-

1422.

same Year Henry left hisgreat with Child, and return-

He embarked the tentha numerous Army, and

The King’sDeath.

His lasWords-La Fevre.

TheQueen

ed to France.of 'june, withspent the Summer partly at Farts, andpartly in pursuing his Conquests. Onthe sixth of December, the Queen wasdelivered at Windsor, of a Prince, (^)who was named Henry, In May follow-ing, she went over to theKing, to Franee,but she did not enjoy him long, for notmany Weeks after her Arrival he wasseized with a Distemper which carriedhim off. This great Prince died at Vin-cennes, on the one and thirtieth of Angus,after a glorious and triumphant Reignof nine Years, five Months and elevenDays, in the four and thirtieth Year ofhis Age, and was survived by CharlesV I. of France, but five and fifty Days.(e) When this Heroick Prince found hewas upon the Point of Death, he sentfor the Dukes of Bedford and Exeter,with several more of the chief EnglishLords, and, with great Firmness ofMind and Resignation, gave them thefollowing Instructions: " He said, that" his Reign had been glorious, tho’ but" of short Duration: His Pretensions" to France had, indeed, been the Oc-" casion of a great deal of Blood-lhed," but it could not be attributed to him,

because France Was not otherwise tobe brought to reasonable Terms. Piedeclared, that the Approach of Deathwas no Way terrifying to him, tho’he could not but bewail the unhappyFate of his Son, who, on A ccount ofhis tenderAge, was not in a Capacityto compleat the great Work he hadso happily begun. He entreatedthem, therefore, for God’s fake, toconsult the Interest of the InfantPrince, who would soon be theirKing, by living in the strictest Har-mony. He conjured them to becareful of his Education, and to ad-minister all the Comfort they couldto the Queen, who stood in greatNeed of it. He advised them to im-prove the Duke of Burgundy’’i¥x\end-stiip, and by no Means to release thePrisoners taken at Agircourt, ’till hisSon was of Age : And, if they shouldjudge it proper to conclude a Peace,not to do it without ascertaining theSovereignty of Normandy, to theCrown of England. To conclude,he signified his Will, that the Dukeof Bedford should be Regent inFrance, and the Duke of GloucesterProtector in England, during theMinority of the young King.

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Henry VI.proclaimedKing of England, andHeir ofFrance.

CHAP. XVI.

Naval 'TranfaSlions and Expeditions of /^English, with other Occur-rences, during the Reign of King Henry VI.

E N R T, surnamed of Windsor,succeeded his Father in the Go-vernment, An. 1422. beingthen an Infant in the Cradle,and was proclaimed by the Name ofHenry VI. King of England, and Heir. of France. Charles VI. King of France,dying the one and thirtieth of Oflober,afterwards, Henry was likewise proclaim-ed King of France, at Paris, by the

(d) When News was brought to the King, ofthe Prince's Birth, he was displeased at the Placeof his Nativity, having strictly forbid the Queen'sLying-in there ; And, speaking to the Lord Fitz-Hugh , his Chamberlain, and great Confident, saidprophetically :

I, Henry, lorn at Monmouth, pallsmall Timereign and much get ;

But Henry of Windsor pall long reign and loseall: But as God u/ill so be it.

Name of Henry VI. of Er-gland, and p rcc i a i^Henry II. of France, and the French King ofLords, who were then there, swore France <dAllegiance to him as such : But the PanS ‘Dauphin took upon him, likewise, the /Title of King of France, by the Nafneof Charles VII. and was crowned at Poi-fliers ; the usual Place, Rheims, beingin the Hands of the English.

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(<?) We find an Instance, in the Records of Rot. As/Parliament of this King's Reign, wherein the So- 8. He»- *yereignty of the Sea is asserted in a notable Man- Metab- i‘ner - ‘ item, priont les Commons que, par lou Art. 6-" aostre tres soverain Seigneur Le Roy et" SES Nor les Progenitors de toutTekps“ Seigneurs del Mer, & ore,

c c. 1 hat is: “ Item, The Commons do" p^ay, that femg our Sovereign Lord, the" sy ^’ r a , hj s nolle Progenitors, have ever“ been Lcrds °f the Sea, and now, &c.