Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the FiftHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
The duke of Bedford being sore gréeued and disquieted with these newes,
constituted the earle of Warwike, which was latelie come into France
with six thousand men, his lieutenant in the French dominions, and in
the duchie of Normandie; and so with a small companie, he with the
duchesse his wife returned againe ouer the seas into England, and the
tenth daie of Ianuarie he was with all solemnitie receiued into London,
to whome the citizens gaue a paire of basins of siluer and gilt, and
a thousand markes in monie. Then from London he rode to Westminster,
and was lodged in the kings palace. The fiue and twentith daie of
March after his comming to London, a parlement began at the towne of
Leicester; where the duke of Bedford openlie rebuked the lords in
generall, bicause that they in the time of warre, thorough their priuie
malice and inward grudge, had almost mooued the people to warre and
commotion, in which time all men ought or should be of one mind, hart,
and consent: requiring them to defend, serue, & dread their souereigne
lord king Henrie, in performing his conquest in France, which was in
manner brought to conclusion. In this parlement the duke of Glocester
laid certeine articles to the bishop of Winchester his charge, the
which with the answers hereafter doo insue; as followeth.
The articles of accusation and accord betwéene the lord of Glocester,
and the lord of Winchester.
[Sidenote: Articles set foorth by the duke of Glocester, against Henrie
bishop of Winchester.]
Here insueth the articles, as the kings councell hath concerned, the
which the high and mightie prince my lord of Glocester hath surmised
vpon my lord of Winchester chancellor of England, with the answer to
the same.
1 First, whereas he being protectour, and defendour of this land,
desired the Tower to be opened to him, and to lodge him therein;
Richard Wooduile esquier (hauing at that time the charge of the kéeping
of the Tower) refused his desire and kept the same Tower against
him vndulie and against reason, by the commandement of my said lord
of Winchester; and afterward in approouing of the said refusall, he
receiued the said Wooduile, and cherished him against the state and
worship of the king, and of my said lord of Glocester.
2 Item, my said lord of Winchester, without the aduise and assent of my
said lord of Glocester, or of the kings councell, purposed and disposed
him to set hand on the kings person, and to haue remooued him from
Eltham, the place that he was in, to Windsor, to the intent to put him
in gouernance as him list.
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