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. "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) 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 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