Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 -- Sources
Here is to know, that in the beginning of the month of October in the
year of our Lord 1470, the bishop of Winchester, by the assent of the
Duke of Clarence and the Earl of Warwick, went to the Tower of London,
where King Harry was in prison, (by King Edward's commandment,) which
was not worshipfully arrayed as a prince, and not so cleanly kept as
should beseem such a prince. They had him out and new arrayed him,
and did to him great reverence, and brought him to the palace of
Westminster, and so he was restored again to the Crown.... Whereof all
his good lovers were full glad, and the more part of people also....
[For] when King Edward the Fourth reigned the people looked after ...
prosperities and peace, but it came not; but one battle after another,
and much trouble and great loss of goods among the common people; as
first the fifteenth of all their goods, and then a whole fifteenth,
and yet at every battle [they had] to come far out of their countries
at their own cost; and these and such other causes brought England
right low, and many men said King Edward had much blame for hurting
merchandize, for in his days they were not in other lands, nor within
England, taken in such reputation and credence as they were before.
THE ARRIVAL OF EDWARD IV. (1471).
=Source.=--_Chronicles of the White Rose_, pp. 37, 38, 50, 51.
(Bohn, London: 1845.)
The same night following upon the morn, Wednesday and Thursday, the
14th day of March fell great storms, winds and tempests upon the
sea, so that the said 14th day, in great torment, he came to Humber
Head, where the other ships were dissevered from him, and every from
other, so that of necessity they were driven to land, every one far
from the other. The King, with his ship alone, wherein was the Lord
Hastings, his Chamberlain, and others to the number of five hundred
well chosen men, landed within Humber on Holderness side at a place
called Ravenspurne. The King's brother, Richard Duke of Gloucester, and
in his company three hundred men landed at another place, four miles
from thence. The Earl Rivers, and the fellowship being in his company,
to the number of two hundred, landed at a place called Powle, fourteen
miles from whence the King landed, and the remainder of the fellowship
where they might best get land. That night the King was lodged at a
poor village two miles from his landing, with a few with him; but that
night, and in the morning, the residue that were coming in his ship,
the rage of the tempest somewhat appeased, landed, and alway drew
towards the King.
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