A History of England From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria
A History of England From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria
Benjamin Stites Terry
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, and through that right, that God of his grace hath sent me with help of my kin and my friends to receive it; the which realm was in point to be undone by default of governance and undoing of good laws. " The plea was accepted without a dissenting voice, and the two archbishops led the champion to the vacant throne. A great revolution had been carried out, and, an unusual thing in those days, no blood had been shed save of the three who were slain at Bristol. Edward II. Had failed because he h...ad not taken his crown seri- ously. Eichard II. Failed because he had taken his crown too seriously. He had been brought up in the atmosphere breathed by the degenerate court of Edward III. Its hollow magnificence, its pride, its extravagance in life and thought were to the boy mind realities. Simon Burley had taught him to regard himself as superior to men and to institutions. Ambitious and crafty uncles had played upon his weakness to further their own ends, and at last persuaded him to try his hand at high prerogative ; and when he found himself confronted by wills every whit as imperious as his own, his temper, which was never under safe control, broke forth in a frenzy of despotic violence.
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