[Footnote 214: There is so much inconsistency in the accounts of chroniclers as to the royal proceedings on this occasion, that to attempt to reconcile them all seems a hopeless task. The Author, however, having been furnished with the following facts ascertained from the "Teste" of several writs and patents preserved in the Tower, is able to recommend, with greater confidence in its accuracy, the adoption of the journal offered in the text. In the year 1421, King Henry V. was January, from 1 to 31, at Rouen. February 1, " Dover. 2 to 28, " Westminster. March 1 to 5, " Westminster. 5 to 14, " Uncertain. 15, " Coventry. 27, " Leicester. From March 28 to April 2, " Uncertain. April 2 to 4, " York. 15, " Lincoln. 18, " York. From 18 to 30, " Uncertain. May 1 to 31, " Westminster.] With these motives,[215] combined, it may be, with others, Henry lost no time in carrying his intention into effect. He seems to have always acted under a practical sense of the maxim, never to put off till to-morrow what is to be done, and what may be done, to-day. Without waiting for the summer, or a more advanced stage of the spring,--and, had he delayed for longer days and more genial weather, the journey would never have been taken,--we conclude that, about the beginning of the second week in March, the King and Queen, attended by a large (p. 289) retinue of friends and nobles, began their journey northward.[216] The first place in which we are sure they rested is Coventry, which they reached probably about the 8th of March, and where they were certainly on the 15th of that month, the eve of Palm Sunday. Henry had a house at Coventry, in right of the duchy of Cornwall, called Cheylesmoor; and probably they took up their abode in that mansion during their stay at Coventry. The greater part of the time spent in Warwickshire was perhaps passed in the castle of Kenilworth, a favourite residence of his grandfather, John of Gaunt, who made very great additions to the mansion, always afterwards called the Lancaster Buildings. Henry himself, too, had been much employed in improving this place, and surrounding it with pleasure-grounds and arbours,[217] instead of the thorns and brakes which had formerly been seen there. Just seven years