The History of England, Volume I, Part II: From Henry III to Richard III David Hume THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND Volume One of Three FROM THE INVASION OF JULIUS CÆSAR TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF JAMES THE SECOND, BY DAVID HUME, ESQ. 1688 In Three Volumes: VOLUME ONE: The History Of England From The Invasion Of Julius Cæsar To The End Of The Reign Of James The Second by David Hume, Esq. VOLUME TWO: Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II by Tobias Smollett. VOLUME THREE: From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty- Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria by E. Farr and E.H. Nolan. VOLUME ONE Part II. From Henry III. to Richard III. CONTENTS CHAPTER XII. HENRY III. CHAPTER XIII. EDWARD I. CHAPTER XIV. EDWARD II. CHAPTER XV. EDWARD III. CHAPTER XVI. EDWARD III. CHAPTER XVII. RICHARD II. CHAPTER XVIII. HENRY IV CHAPTER XIX. HENRY V. CHAPTER XX. HENRY VI. CHAPTER XXI. HENRY VI. CHAPTER XXII. EDWARD IV. CHAPTER XXIII. EDWARD V. AND RICHARD III. CHAPTER XXIII. RICHARD III. NOTES. [...]...List of Illustrations Henry III Edward I Carnarvon Castle Edward II Edward III Surrender of Calais Richard II Wat Tyler Richard II Entry Into London Henry IV Henry V Henry VI Joan D‘Arc St Albans Abbey Edward IV Edward V Richard III The History of England, Volume I, Part II CHAPTER XII 1 The History of England, Volume I, Part II HENRY III 1216 Most sciences, in proportion as they increase... 79 6 The History of England, Volume I, Part II Pembroke was so much strengthened by these accessions, that he ventured to invest Mount Sorel; though, upon the approach of the count of Perche with the French army, he desisted from his enterprise, and raised the siege.[*] The count, elated with this success, marched to Lincoln; and being admitted into the town, he began to attack the castle, which he soon... defence, they desisted from their enterprise When summoned to court in order to answer for their conduct, they scrupled not to appear, and to confess the design: but they told the king that they had no bad intentions against his person, but only against Hubert de Burgh, whom they were determined to remove from his office.[**] They appeared too formidable to be 12 The History of England, Volume I, Part II... was obliged to carry on war in France; and he employed to that purpose the fifteenth which 13 The History of England, Volume I, Part II had been granted him by parliament Lewis VIII., who had succeeded to his father Philip, instead of complying with Henry s claim, who demanded the restitution of Normandy and the other provinces wrested from England, made an irruption into Poictou, took Rochelle[*] after... nobles Edmond, the primate, 18 The History of England, Volume I, Part II came to court, attended by many of the other prelates, and represented to the king the pernicious measures embraced by Peter des Roches, the discontents of his people, the ruin of his affairs; and after requiring the dismission of the minister and his associates, threatened him with excommunication in case of his refusal Henry, who... shared among them those favors which the king ought in policy to have conferred on the English nobility, by whom his government could have been supported and defended His mother Isabella, who had been unjustly taken by the late king from the count de la Marche, to whom she was betrothed, was no mistress 20 The History of England, Volume I, Part II of herself by the death of her husband, than she married... determined to expel the English from the few provinces which still remained to them Henry sent over his uncle, the earl of Salisbury, together with his brother, Prince Richard, to whom he had granted the earldom of Cornwall, which had escheated to the crown Salisbury stopped the progress of Lewis‘s arms, and retained the Poictevin and Gascon vassals in their allegiance: but no military action of any moment... king should dismiss his foreigners, otherwise they would drive both him and them out of the kingdom, and put the crown on another head, more worthy to wear it: [****] such was the style they used to their sovereign They at last came to parliament, but so well attended, that 17 The History of England, Volume I, Part II they seemed in a condition to prescribe laws to the king and ministry * M Paris, p 263... the occupation of the nobility, and when the king comprehended so considerable a part of the kingdom within his forests, which he 4 The History of England, Volume I, Part II governed by peculiar and arbitrary laws All the forests, which had been enclosed since the reign of Henry II., were disafforested, and new perambulations were appointed for that purpose; offences in the forests were declared to. .. were invited over to Provence, and married to the chief noblemen of England, who were the king‘s wards [*] And, as the source of Henry s bounty 19 The History of England, Volume I, Part II began to fail, his Savoyard ministry applied to Rome, and obtained a bull, permitting him to resume all past grants; absolving him from the oath which he had taken to maintain them; even enjoining him to make such a . The History of England, Volume I, Part II: From Henry III to Richard III David Hume THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND Volume. Edward V. Richard III. The History of England, Volume I, Part II 1 CHAPTER XII. The History of England, Volume I, Part II 2 HENRY III. 1216.