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Charles Williams. Henry VII
Henry VII
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I “That most Innocent Ympe”
CHAPTER II “Change of Worlds hath caused Change of Mind”
CHAPTER III. The King and the Kings
CHAPTER IV. The Multiplication of the King
CHAPTER V “He of York”
CHAPTER VI. The Marriages (i)
CHAPTER VII. The King in His State
CHAPTER VIII. The Hunting of Suffolk
Richard Suffolk
CHAPTER IX. The Nature of the King
CHAPTER X. The Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INDEX
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Charles Williams
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The Duke was very angry, and consequently very repentant. He lamented to the Bishop his folly in the past, his support of the wild boar who now crouched on the Throne. The Bishop listened cautiously, but did not at first commit himself. “When he understood his just cause of hatred,” he became convinced of the new convert’s probity. He may have sighed for the hatred as a Bishop, but he took advantage of it as a Lancastrian. It was known that a marriage between Henry Tudor and King Edward’s daughter had once been suggested, and the proposal was now more seriously revived under the influence of Henry’s mother. Morton and Buckingham sent messengers to Elizabeth’s mother, the Dowager Queen of Edward IV, and found that the Countess Margaret’s messengers were there before them, urging the same plan.
The Queen Dowager was then in sanctuary at Westminster with Elizabeth her daughter; she had fled there to be safe from the new King. Her sons had been in the Tower; now they had disappeared. They had been the chief danger to the new King. She was contented to pay herself back and to pay the King out with a son-in-law, though she was not a person whose conspiracies could be very firmly relied on. But she was only asked to agree. The arrival of the double embassy convinced her; she agreed to the marriage. Messengers were sent over to Brittany to inform Henry Tudor of the plans and to arrange for a co-ordination of movements.
