The White Lion = the And all the south of England, unto the water of Trent, The way into the north countrie the Rose full fast he sought bought; So too did the White Lion, full worthily he wrought. Almighty Jesu bless his soul, that those arms ought! Duke of Nor- The northern party made them strong with spear and eke folk, who died in Septem ber, 1461. ought= owned. with shield, And on Palm Sunday, after noon, they met us in the field: The Rose won then the victory, the field and eke the chase, Husband, i.e. Now may the husband in the south dwell quiet for a space, His wife and eke his daughter, and his goods, in his own husband man. place, Such joyance has the Rose thus made, by virtue and by grace. Blessed be the time that ever God spread that flower! The Rose came down to London, full royally riding, Two Archbishops of England, they crowned the Rose, our king; Almighty Jesu save the Rose, and give him His blessing, Amen par charite. Anonymous. Archælogia, 1872. Vol. XXIX, 343-347. Version by M. G. Gordon. 41. Queen Margaret's Story of her Adven- By GEORGE tures (1463) saying that CHASTELLAIN (1405?1475), a Fleming, who after many tered the ser travels en vice of the Duke of Bur whom he was gundy, by employed in diplomatic negotiations. The last life were spent in literValenciennes. His chief production is his years of his ary work in Chronicle. For some battle of Towton Mar Then the Duchess of Bourbon came to her at Saint-Pol, where they met lovingly together like two sisters, and the Queen related some of her adventures it happened, for the space of five days, that her husband the King, her son, and she had for their three selves only one herring, and not one day's supply of bread; and that on a holy day she found herself at mass without a brass farthing to offer; wherefore, in her beggary and need, she prayed a Scottish archer to lend her something, who, half loth and regretfully, drew a Scots groat from his purse and lent it to her. She also related how, at her last unfortunate discomfiture, she was robbed and despoiled of all she had, of her royal jewels and dresses, of her plate and treasures, with which she thought to escape into Scotland; and when all time after the this had been taken from her, she herself was seized upon, villainously reviled, run upon with a drawn sword, caught hold of her head-gear to have her neck severed, menaced with divers torments and cruelties, while she, on her knees and with clasped hands, wailing and weeping, prayed that, for the sake of divine and human pity, they would have mercy upon her. Withal she perseveringly called upon God's mercy; and Heaven heard her appeal; for speedily there arose such a discord and dissension among her captors about the booty, that, furiously slaughtering each other like madmen, they concerned themselves no more about the dolorous ... When the poor and discomfited Queen their princess. . . Queen saw this, she piteously addressed an esquire who was by, and prayed him that, for the sake of Our Saviour's passion, he would help her to escape. Then the esquire looked at her, and God caused him to conceive a pity for her, so that he said, "Madam, mount behind me, and my lord the garet kept up the struggle with the Yorkists, but in 1463 in despair she fled with her son to seek the protecton of the Burgundy. The Duchess was sister of Duke of of Bourbon Burgundy. the Duke of the province of Artois. "Probably the Scottish side of the border or Prince before, and I will save you or die, although death seems to me more likely than not.' So the Queen and her son mounted. . . . [The esquire, at the Queen's desire, makes for a neighbouring forest.] Now there was in this forest a place haunted by brigands, who were reported throughout the country to be pitiless cutthroats. It befell that there came up a brigand, hideous and horrible of aspect, and, roused by the sight of prey, he approached the Queen with intent to lay hands upon her. Then when the noble Queen thought that nothing but death was before her, either from the enemies from whom she had escaped, or from the brigands of whom she now saw a specimen, she called the robber up to her, and thus addressed him ; [Margaret declares herself to be the Queen, and adjures the robber to save the son of his King.] In such words, or to such effect, the poor Queen reasoned with the brigand, who, seeing her tears and her distress, and also because she was Queen of the land, conceived a great pity for her; and, the Holy Spirit softening his heart, he fell at her feet, saying that he would die by a thousand deaths and as many torments rather than abandon the noble youth until he had brought him to the haven of safety. And praying mercy of the Queen for his misdeeds, as if she were reigning in London, he vowed to God and to her never to revert to his present courses, and to amend his life in expectation of mercy. So he took the youth in haste, for the Queen was ever in fear of being overtaken; wherefore she sought only to separate from the child, and to put him into God's guiding hand. Thus, kissing her son, weeping and lamenting, she left him in the hands of the brigand, who nobly did his duty by him afterwards. And the Queen, riding behind the esquire, made straight for a foreign march, where she expected to find her husband the King. Which son. having reached by long weary travelling, she related to him march-land." George Chastellain, Chronicle (Brussels, 1863–1866), IV, 299–307. King Henry shire and 42. A Summons to the Field (1471) RICHARD, EARL OF WARWICK, TO HENRY VERNON, SQUIRE. Right trusty and right well-beloved, I greet you well, and desire and heartily pray you that inasmuch as yonder man Edward, the king's our sovereign lord great enemy, rebel, and traitor, is now late arrived in the north parts of this land and coming fast on southward accompanied with Flemings, Easterlings, and Danes, not exceeding the number of all that he ever hath of 2,000 persons, nor the country as he cometh nothing falling to him, ye will therefore, incontinent and forthwith after the sight hereof, dispose you toward me to Coventry with as many people defensibly arrayed as ye can readily make, and that ye be with me there in all haste possible, as my very singular trust is in you, and as do thing to your weal or worship hereafter. And God keep you. Written at Warwick the 25th day of March. Henry, I pray you, fail not now as ever I may do for you. Th' Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, Lieutenant to the king our sovereign Lord Henry the Sixth. may R. WARWICK. Hist. MSS. Commission, 12th Report, Appendix (London, 1888), the interests of Henry VI, driven from the throne in whom he had 1461. At War wick's coming in 1470, Edward IV fled to Bur gundy. In 1471 he re turned, hav ing obtained from the Duke money and ships. Nothing falling to him, i.e. not joining him. Make, i.e. raise. By JOHN WARKWORTH, from 1473 to 1498, Master of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. In the college library a manuscript copy of his Chronicle is still preserved. Warkworth's sympathies were Lancastrian. London was loyal to the Yorkist cause, as were the towns generally. 43. The Battle of Barnet (1471) And on the Wednesday next before Easter-day, King Harry, and the Archbishop of York with him, rode about London, and desired the people to be true unto him; and every man said they would. Nevertheless Urswyke, Recorder of London, and divers Aldermen, such that had rule of the city, commanded all the people, that were in harness, keeping the city, and King Harry, every man to go home to dinner; and in dinner time King Edward was let in, and so went forth to the Bishop of London's palace, and there took King Harry, and the Archbishop of York, and put them in ward, the Thursday next before Easter-day. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Essex, the Lord Berners, and such other as owed King Edward good will, as well in London, as in other places, made as many men as they might, in strengthening the said King Edward; so then he was a seven thousand men, and there they refreshed well themselves, all that day, and Good Friday. And upon Easter Even, he and all his host went toward Barnet, and carried King Harry with him; for he had understanding, that the Earl of Warwick, and the Duke of Exeter, the Lord Marquis Montague, the Earl of Oxford, and many other knights, squires, and commons, to the number of twenty thousand, were gathered together to fight against the King Edward. But it happened that he, with his host, were entered into the town of Barnet, before the Earl of Warwick, and his host. And so the Earl of Warwick, and his host, lay without the town all night, and each of them loosed guns at other all the night. And on Easter day in the morning, the fourteenth day of April, right early each of them came upon other; and there was such a great mist, that neither of them might see other perfectly. There they fought from four of clock in |