Chapter XIV. Red Rose and White Rose Edward IV. (1461-1483) Edward V. (1483) Richard III.(1483-1485) -- 81 Chapter XV. The Tudors Re-establishment of the Regular Government Henry VII. (1485-1509) -- 117 Chapter XVI. Henry VIII. and Wolsey (1509-1529) -- 154 Chapter XVII. The Royal Reform Personal Government Henry VIII. (1529-1547) -- 210 Chapter XVIII. The Reformation Edward VI. (1547-1553) -- 268 Chapter XIX. Persecution Bloody Mary (1553-1558) -- 293 Chapter XX. Policy and Government of Queen Elizabeth, Her Foreign Relations (1558-1603) -- 324 Chapter XXI. Social and Literary Progress of England under Elizabeth -- 429 {6} {7} Guizot's History Of England, Vol. II. From the accession of Henry V., to the death of Queen Elizabeth, 1413-1603. {8} {9} Chapter XIII. Grandeur And Decline. Henry V., Henry VI. (1413-1461). Henry of Monmouth ascended the throne under happy auspices. His father had expended the popularity which in the first place had carried him into power, and had lived amidst the anxieties and cares of usurpation; but the work was accomplished, and his son felt his authority so well established, that the first acts of his reign bear testimony to a generous disdain towards conspiracies and rivals. The body of King Richard II. was carried away from the convent of Langley, and solemnly brought back to Westminster, to be interred there beside his wife, Anne of Bohemia, as the unhappy monarch had wished during his lifetime. The king himself was the chief mourner. The young Edmund, earl of March, was restored to liberty, and the son of Hotspur Percy was recalled from his long exile in Scotland. Everywhere the former adversaries of Henry IV., exiled or punished through his fear and prudence, experienced the clemency of the young king, who contrived to gain the affection of the greater number of them, by the firmness and energy of character which were united in him with generosity.