ninth year of king Edward, being the year of our Lord, 1469, there arose a great disagreement between that king and his kinsman, Eichard, the most illustrious earl of Warwick ; which was not allayed…
At this period, there happened in our monastery a circom- Btance deserving of everlasting remembrance, which some of the most intelQgent, even, ascribed to a wondrous miracle. The greater bell-tower had been newly built in…
In the same year, also, the duchess, lady Margaret, relict of John, the illustrious duke of Somerset, one who had always proved gracious and favourably-disposed to our monastery, and who, as we have already mentioned,…
The marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville took place in secret with just a handful of witnesses on 1 May 1464. Edward, as King, was expected to marry somebody of royal blood. Marriage was…
In the following year, that most abominable chieftain of the Turks, (of whom we have^ previously made mention, when gpeaking of the destruction of the city of Constantinople), » P. 417. A.D. 1463. THE TUEK8…
The Coronation of Edward IV took place on 28 June 1461 at Westminster Abbey. Following Edward’s victory at Towton and the isolation of Lancastrian resistance to a relatively small number of areas of the country,…
Just at the same period of time, king Hfenry fled, together with a few of his followers, into ScotlMid, in which country, and in the castles bordering thereon, he lay concealed, in great tribulation, during…
The duke being thus removed from this world, the north- men, being. sensible that the only impediment was now with- ^ An officer of the co.rt of wards, whose daty it was to be preieiit…
In these recent times sprang up between our lord, king Henry the Sixth and Eichard, the most illustrious duke of York, those dissensions, never sufficiently to be regretted, and never henceforth to be allayed: dissensions…
After these times, about the year of the Word made Incar- nate, 1463, the great chieftain of the Turks, Balthasar,®^ also called Mahomet, that enemy to the Cross of Christ, jjist like a fresh Antiochus…