Mary Ann Hookham
Published: 2012-01
Total Pages: 274
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. (Queen Margaret.) Oft have I heard that grief softens The mind, And makes it fearful and degenerate; Think therefore on revenge, and cease to weep. Shakespeare. (Queen Margaret.) What are you made of ? you'll not fight Nor fly: Now is it manhood, wisdom and defence To give the enemy way; and to secure us '' By what we can, which can no more but fly ? Alarm afar off. If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom Of all our fortunes; but if we haply 'scape, As well we may, if not through your neglect, '' We shall to London .get, where you are lord, And where the breach now in our fortunes made May readily be stopped.?Shakespeare. The King and Queen at Coventry?Margaret's activity?She raises a new army?Edward, Earl of March, opposes her?The battle of Northampton ?Buckingham and others slain?The Queen escapes to Durham? Respect paid to the King?Parliament meets?York's pretensions discussed?The Duke of York appointed successor to King Henry?A procession to St. Paul's?York becomes absolute?He attempts to ensnare the Queen?Margaret robbed near Chester?She goes to Wales and Scotland?Affairs in Scotland?The Queen returns to the North of England?She raises an army in Yorkshire, and is joined by the northern barons?Promises of plunder?The Queen goes southward with an army of 20,000?The Duke of York advances to meet her, and withdraws to Wakefield?Queen Margaret harangues her troops? Battle of Wakefield Green?Death of the Duke of York, and of his son?Earl of Salisbury beheaded?The Queen advances towards London?Battle of Mortimer's Cross?Owen Tudor beheaded?Warwick leads another army against the Queen?Battle of Bernard's Heath? Interview of the King, Queen, and Prince Edward?Lord Bonville and Sir Thomas Kiriel beheade...