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The KingsMarriage.

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Troops sentto Ireland.

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1452.

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The Birthof PrinceEdward.

All'Prancelojh but Ca-lais andGuifnes.

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cily : And in April following she landedat Portsmouth. The Marriage Solemnitywas performed at Sowthwick , in Hamp-shire, on the two and twentieth, and onthe thirtieth of May she was solemnlycrowned at Westminster.

In 1449. the Duke of Tork was sentwith a small Force, to suppress a Re-bellion in Ireland, and succeeded.

Affairs going but badly for theEnglish in Normandy, a Re-inforcementof some Thousand Men was sent thitherin 1450. under the Command of Sirt Ihomas Kyriel, who landed them atCherbourg.

The Gascons having submitted to theFrench, only because they had beenneglected by the English, in 1452. theyexpressed a Desire of returning to theirancient Sovereign, upon which the Earlof Salisbury was sent over with someForces. He failed on the eighteenth ofOdlober, arrived on the twenty-first nearPour de aux, and surprized that City thenext Day. Being followed by moreTroops he took some other Places, af-terwards, but lost his Life there.

In the Year 1453. Henry was seiz-ed with a dangerous Sickness, of whichit was thought he would never recover.About the fame Time the Queen wasdelivered of a Prince, who was christen-ed by the Name of Edward. The Warin France was now ended, after it hadlasted eight and thirty Years, and theE giijh were dispossessed of all theyheld in that Kingdom, at the Deathof Henry V. excepting Calais andGuifnes. The remaning Events ofthis Reign consist chiefly of the Quar-rels between the Houses of Tork andLancaster, which ended in the Ruinof the King and the whole House ofLancaster. I shall, however, relate noCircumstances of them but what areproperly introductory to the Continua-tion of this History. The Duke ofTork had been declared Protector duringthe King’s Illness, but in the Year 1455.

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the King finding himself somewhat re- 143Qcovered, resumed the Reins of Govern-ment, and removed the Duke of Tork p egin n'dfrom his Go vernment of Calais. Upon of the fatsthis the Duke retired to Wales and raif- Troubles Fed an Army, by Means of which, and tl ssssJJat the Request of the Parliament to the York adKing to nominate a Protector, he re- Lancaster,gained that Employ ; And his Friend,the Earl of Warwick, was made Cover- ,

nour of Calais. The Year following, I 45 0 'the King again displaced the Duke ofTork from his Protectorship, upon whichhe retired a second Time from Court.(c)

In 1458. all Parties were seemingly re-conciled, and an Act of Reconciliationpassed the Great Seal.

In this Year, the Earl of Warwick,being Lord High Admiral, in Order to Rapin.serve the Interests of the House of Tork, Holinslie^'and to make sure of a Fleet, got toge-ther all the Ships he could lay Hand on, The Ead J twhich were fit and ready for Service. WarwickHe went himself on Board, and put out-^"^^ ;to Sea, under Pretext of going to hisGovernment of Calais. By [theWay, hehad the Fortune to meet with fivelarge Carracks, three of which were And tabsGenoese, and the other two Spanish, Sp a °‘/j

or rather of Lubeck. He immediately “ASattacked them, and they, on their Side,made a brave and resolute Defence, fora Time; But, being at last overpower-ed, they were obliged to strike, andthe Duke carried them to Calais. Up-on Complaints made of this Action, theEarl was obliged to return to England,to answer for himself, and during hisStay at London an Insult, either acciden-tal or designed, was offered him, which London,gave Occasion to an open Rupture. (<?)

Warwick retiring to Calais, to securethat Place, Henry declared him depriv-ed of that Government, and gave a Pa- /

tent to the Duke of Sommer/et to succeed Sommerk £him in thatEmploy; But when he went, declaredwith some Forces, to take Possessionhis Post, the Citizens and Garrison op- a3posed him, in Favour of their old Go-

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Echard. (Y) In 14s 7- French made a Descent onHolinjhead. our Coasts, with a Number of Ships containingF. Dan. H. four Thousand Soldiers. They pillaged somede la Milice Houses, surprized Sandwich, and having takende France, some Ships retired into Normandy; The French,however, allow, themselves, that this Advantageof theirs was more owing to our Weakness andintestine Broils,than to the Naval Power of France,which was at that Time but in a poor Condition ;This I omitted above , not to break off theThread of my Account of Domestick Troubles.Burchett. (d) According to Mr. Secretary Burchett,Echard. and Mr. Echard, but Rapin fays these Ships be-

Rapin. longed to Genoa and Lubeck, which he proves

from the Foedera. Our Historian Daniel makes

this Action more considerable. He fays, the Bat-tle lasted almost two Days, but, at last, determi-ned m Favour of the Earl, who took fix of theirShips (he fays, they were a Fleet ;cf Spaniards,without determining their Number) laden withWine, Oil, Wax, Iron, and other rich Mer-chandizes, worth ten Thousand Pounds Sterling,and funk and put to Flight fix and twenty more,having slain aThousand of their Men in theFYht,and taken many Prisoners. The five Carracks,he fays, were Part of this Fleet.

(e) By Holin/head it would seem as if this In-sult happened before the Action at Sea, but theAtia Regta and Rapin shew he is mistaken.

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