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CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXV. CHAPTER XXVI. CHAPTER XXVII. CHAPTER XXVIII. CHAPTER XXIX. CHAPTER XXX. CHAPTER XXXI. CHAPTER XXXII. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXV. CHAPTER XXVI. CHAPTER XXVII. CHAPTER XXVIII. CHAPTER XXIX. CHAPTER XXX. CHAPTER XXXI. 1 CHAPTER XXXII. Monmouth, Volume 2, by J. Endell Tyler Project Gutenberg's Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2, by J. Endell Tyler This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth Author: J. Endell Tyler Release Date: January 31, 2007 [EBook #20489] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HENRY OF MONMOUTH, VOLUME 2 *** Produced by Christine P. Travers, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. The original spelling has been retained. Different spelling as been kept, e.g.: - Ruisseauville and Ruissauville - Azincour and Azincourt, etc Some words on page 94 were partly unclear / illegible. - Page 249: ii. vol. changed to vol. ii. - Page 412: The missing anchor for the footnote 305 has been added.] [Illustration: Great Seal of Owen Glyndowr as Prince of Wales. Published by R. Bentley, 1838] HENRY OF MONMOUTH: OR, MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF HENRY THE FIFTH, AS PRINCE OF WALES AND KING OF ENGLAND. BY J. ENDELL TYLER, B.D. RECTOR OF ST. GILES IN THE FIELDS. Monmouth, Volume 2, by J. Endell Tyler 2 "Go, call up Cheshire and Lancashire, And Derby hills, that are so free; But neither married man, nor widow's son; No widow's curse shall go with me." IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1838. LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. (p. iii) Monmouth, Volume 2, by J. Endell Tyler 3 CHAPTER XVII. 1413-1414. Henry of Monmouth's Accession. National rejoicings. His profound sense of the Awfulness of the Charge devolved upon him. Coronation. First Parliament. Habits of business. He removes the remains of Richard to Westminster. Redeems the Son of Hotspur, and restores him to his forfeited honours and estates. Generous conduct towards the Earl of March. Parliament at Leicester. Enactments against Lollards. Henry's Foundations at Shene and Sion. Page 1 CHAPTER XVII. 4 CHAPTER XVIII. 1414-1417. State of the Church. Henry a sincere Christian, but no Bigot. Degraded state of Religion. Council of Constance. Henry's Representatives zealous promoters of Reform. Hallam, Bishop of Salisbury, avowed enemy of the Popedom. Richard Ullerston: primitive views of Clerical duties. Walden, his own Chaplain, accuses Henry of remissness in the extirpation of Heresy. Forester's Letter to the King. Henry Beaufort's unhappy interference. Petition from Oxford. Henry's personal exertions in the business of Reform. Reflections on the then apparent dawn of the Reformation. Page 32 CHAPTER XVIII. 5 CHAPTER XIX. (p. iv) 1414. Wars with France. Causes which influenced Henry. Summary of the affairs of France from the time of Edward III. Reflections on Henry's Title. Affairs of France from Henry's resolution to claim his "Dormant Rights," and "Rightful Heritage," to his invasion of Normandy. Negociations. His Right denied by the French. Parliament votes him Supplies. Page 70 CHAPTER XIX. 6 CHAPTER XX. Modern triple charge against Henry of Falsehood, Hypocrisy, and Impiety. Futility of the Charge, and utter failure of the Evidence on which alone it is grounded. He is urged by his people to vindicate the Rights of his Crown, himself having a conscientious conviction of the Justice of his Claim. Story of the Tennis-Balls. Preparations for invading France. Henry's Will made at Southampton. Charge of Hypocrisy again grounded on the close of that Testament. Its Futility. He despatches to the various Powers of Europe the grounds of his Claim on France. Page 89 CHAPTER XX. 7 CHAPTER XXI. 1415. Preparations for invading France. Reflections on the Military and Naval State of England. Mode of raising and supporting an Army. Song of Agincourt. Henry of Monmouth the Founder of the English Royal Navy. Custom of impressing Vessels for the transporting of Troops. Henry's exertions in Ship-building. Gratitude due to him. Conspiracy at Southampton. Prevalent delusion as to Richard II. The Earl of March. Henry's Forces. He sails for Normandy. Page 119 CHAPTER XXI. 8 CHAPTER XXII. (p. v) 1415. Henry crosses the Sea: lands at Clef de Caus: lays Siege to Harfleur. Devoted Attendance on his dying Friend the Bishop of Norwich. Vast Treasure falls into his hands on the Surrender of Harfleur. He challenges the Dauphin. Futile Modern Charge brought against him on that ground. Page 143 CHAPTER XXII. 9 CHAPTER XXIII. 1415. Henry, with Troops much weakened, leaves Harfleur, fully purposed to make for Calais, notwithstanding the threatened resistance of the French. Passes the Field of Cressy. French resolved to engage. Night before the Conflict. FIELD of AGINCOURT. Slaughter of Prisoners. Henry, his enemies themselves being Judges, fully exculpated from every suspicion of cruelty or unchivalrous bearing. He proceeds to Calais. Thence to London. Reception by his Subjects. His modest and pious Demeanour. Superstitious proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Authorities. Reflections. Songs of Agincourt. Page 156 CHAPTER XXIII. 10 [...]... vindicate the supremacy of the law of England over the alleged omnipotence of the court of Rome The great difference of opinion also as to the power of the Pope, expressed by the members of the judicial bench, cannot fail to interest every Englishman, whether lawyer or not; whilst the terms in which some of the judges speak of the encroachments of the Apostolic see, against which the legislature of England... beneficence of the pious, they had the happiness of seeing them restored In 1755 this little community suffered in common with the other unfortunate inhabitants of Lisbon, and seem to have lost their all in the earthquake In their distress they cast their eyes to the land of their fathers, and applied for the charity of their countrymen There is something very affecting in the language of the petition... benefices to the poor and distressed; that they exclude and ever debar the clergymen from promotion, and privately convey the treasure of the realm in great sums to the court of Rome, to the confusion of their own souls, the grievous (p 041) desolation of the parishioners[36] and the whole country, the ultimate ruin of the clergy, the great impoverishment of the realm, and the irrecoverable ruin of the holy... Heresy, examined Result of the Investigation Henry not a Persecutor Reflections Page 393 APPENDIX No I Ballad of Agincourt 417 No II Siege of Rouen 422 No III Authenticity of the Manuscripts Sloane 1776, and Reg 13, c 1 425 MEMOIRS OF HENRY OF MONMOUTH (p 001) CHAPTER XVII 20 CHAPTER XVII HENRY OF MONMOUTH'S ACCESSION NATIONAL REJOICINGS HIS PROFOUND SENSE OF THE AWFULNESS OF THE CHARGE DEVOLVED... in the land of their refuge; till, in 1810, nine of them, the majority, it is said, of the survivors, fled from the horrors of war to their native island; and their convent, whose founder was Henry, the greatest general of his age, became the barracks of English soldiers under Wellington, the greatest general of the present day On their first return they lived in a small house in Walworth; and in 1 825 ,... from the importance of the fact. Pell Rolls, 1 Henry IV.] The sites which Henry selected for his establishments were, (p 028 ) one at Shene, in Surrey; the other at Sion, in the manor of Isleworth, on the Thames The terms of the foundation-charters of these religious houses, their rules, and circumstances, and possessions, it does not fall within the plan of this work to specify in detail The brothers... Page 26 2 14 CHAPTER XXVIII 15 CHAPTER XXVIII 1 421 -1 422 Katharine crowned Henry and his Queen make a progress through a great part of his Dominions Arrival of the disastrous news of his Brother's Death (the Duke of Clarence) Henry meets his Parliament -Hastens to the Seat of War Birth of his Son, Henry of Windsor Joins his Queen at Bois de Vincennes -Their magnificent Reception at Paris Henry. .. reformation in the church, the Council of Constance was professedly convened That synod was summoned nominally by Pope John XXIII, but in reality by the united voice (p 047) of the sovereigns of Europe, especially at the instance of the Emperor Sigismund himself It falls not within the province of these Memoirs to record the proceedings of that council, either in extinguishing the flame of discord within the. .. common with the large body of believers through Christendom, he had been bred up in the baneful error of identifying the Catholic church of Christ with the see of Rome, is in some points of view equally evident: but that he was a supporter of the Pope against the rights of the church in England and other his dominions, or was an upholder of the abuses which had then overspread the whole garden of Christ's... them in their malice And they have answered him again, that they will rather die than go from their belief There is a great power of them, lords, knights, and esquires; but the greatest power is of the commoners Therefore the Emperor gathers all the power that he may, to go into Bohemia upon them." See Ellis's Original Letters.] ***** It was on the 20 th of October 1414, that Robert Hallam, Bishop of Salisbury, . 1838] HENRY OF MONMOUTH: OR, MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF HENRY THE FIFTH, AS PRINCE OF WALES AND KING OF ENGLAND. BY J. ENDELL TYLER, B.D. RECTOR OF ST. GILES IN THE FIELDS. Monmouth, Volume. or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth Author: J. Endell. 13, c. 1. 425 MEMOIRS OF HENRY OF MONMOUTH (p. 001) CHAPTER XXXII. 19 CHAPTER XVII. HENRY OF MONMOUTH'S ACCESSION. NATIONAL REJOICINGS. HIS PROFOUND SENSE OF THE AWFULNESS OF THE CHARGE