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John of Gaunt was at its head, and the rest of its lords were those who had backed the king in his blow at Gloucester and the Arundels. Two however were excluded. In the general distribution of rewards which followed Gloucester's overthrow the Earl of Derby had been made Duke of Hereford, the Earl of Nottingham Duke of Norfolk.
"Who can tell what the Queen would dare if she gets her will!" demanded the Earl. "Wouldst like to do penance with sheet and candle, like Gloucester's wife?" Such a possibility was enough to silence the Lady of Warwick on the score of witches, and the only time she spoke to Grisell was to ask her about Sister Avice and her cures.
"Her heart and morning broke together In tears." Of course, I would not rank with these Gloucester's "What! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted"; though as mere rhetoric it belongs to the same class. It might be defended as a bit of ghastly humor characteristic of the speaker.
And Barbara saw, once more on his face that look, neither sad nor impatient, but as of one uninhabited and waiting. She left Sea House next day to rejoin her mother, who, having been to Cowes, and to the Duchess of Gloucester's, was back in Town waiting for Parliament to rise, before going off to Scotland. And that same afternoon the girl made her way to Mrs. Noel's flat.
A simultaneous cry was heard; over the mounds of the slain, through the press into the shadow of the oaks, dashed Gloucester's charger. The conflict had ceased, the executioners stood mute in a half-circle. Side by side, axe and sword still griped in their iron hands, lay Montagu and Warwick. The young duke, his visor raised, contemplated the fallen foes in silence.
"Lord Oxford, my lord, has followed the enemy he routed to the farthest verge of the heath." "Saints help us! Is Oxford thus headstrong? He will ruin all if he be decoyed from the field! Ride back, sir! Yet hold!" as another of the aides-de-camp appeared. "What news from Lord Warwick's wing?" "Sore beset, bold marquis. Gloucester's line seems countless; it already outflanks the earl.
It was to be boat for boat in this race; every vessel for herself. So he was thought to be a good man to have to look after the stake and judges' boats. It was Gloucester's Anniversary celebration, with a lot of strangers in town the Governor and a whole holdful of national characters and in deference to them the race was to be managed so that spectators might have a chance to see it. Mr.
They were to sail immediately, for the intelligence of the Duke of Gloucester's death had just arrived with the despatches, announcing the same to be taken to King William, who was still at the Hague.
He delivered Ottobon from the hands of the rebels, and then arranged a peace upon terms which secured Gloucester's chief object of procuring better conditions for the disinherited. Not only Earl Gilbert but Eyville and his associates were admitted to the royal favour. A few desperadoes still held out until July in the isle of Ely, and Edward devoted himself to tracking them to their lairs.
Some of his brother Gloucester's lands were granted to York. After this, both York and Lancaster retired from Court to their own country homes. In 1399, on the death of Lancaster, York was created Steward of England pro tem, "until Henry Earl of Derby shall sue for the same." About the 7th of July he met, and at once went over to, his rebellious and banished nephew, Henry of Lancaster.
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