THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 149.] NOVEMBER l, IB06. [4 of Vol. 2-2. 



ORIGESiAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, making any acquifitinn of power or ter- 



ritury, or reaping any folic! lutvaJiCa^'a 



sii*> uliatovcr from this idle and fxpeniive 



UPON the attentive pcrufal of Dr expedition. On leaving Ireland,^ be ap- 



Leland's excellent HiCtory of Ire- pointed Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, 



land, it will appear that this accun^.te his vicercgent. But fcarcely was the kins; 



and judicious writer has faileji into feveral departed, tiian the Irilh chieftains agaili. 



inachertencies refpectiii;; the perfons and rofe in arms; and in the courfo of the 



actions of the princes of the blood royal defidtory warfare which cnfucd, the Earl 



defccnded fro.n the reno^vn«;l Edward of i\Iarch, engaging the rebels with more 



III. The eriticifms I have to oiitr on braveiy than circumfpeition, was fur- 



ihefe points, and the remarks I propofe priiisd, defeated, and llain by them, 



occafionally to introduce, will be anau^ This happened in the year 1398. Earl 



ged, as tVu-as circuniftances will allow, in lloger was fon of Philij)pu, only daugh- 



a regular and chronological order. ' ter and fole heirefs of Lionel Duke of 



I." In tb.e month of'October 1394, as Clarence, fecond fon of King Edward 

 we^re told by Dr. I,oland (vol. i. p. •SAO), HI. : that princcfs having intcnaarricJ, 

 Ireland having long been in a Ihite of "itli Edmund Mortimer Earl of March, 

 leirible difoider, it was finally determin- and the king having no ill'uc, Earl Roger 

 ed hy the king (Richard il.) to repair in ^ad been recently declared in parlianielk 

 perfon to that kingdom ; and Sir Thomas prelumptive heir of the crown. He left 

 Scroophavingbeenfent before to prepare two fon s, Edmund and Roger, not pait 

 for his reception, he landed, in the the years of childhood, and a dauL;htei-, 

 courfe (jf that month, at Vv'aterford, Anne, afterwards married to the Earl of 

 " with a royal army, confiding of 4000 Cambridge, fecond fon of Edmund of 

 men at arms and 30,000 archers, aiid Langley, Duke of York, who was fourth 

 attended by the Duke of Gloccllcr, the fon of King Edward III. The Duke of 

 Earls of Nottingiiam and Rutland, Tho- Albemarle, or Anmerle (as he is com- 

 mas Lord Piercy, and other diftinguiflied monly iiyled), cldeft fon of the Duke of 

 peifonages." York, arid who fucceecied to that illulln- 



The Duke of Glocefter here mentioned ons title on the death of his tuther, A. D. 



was undoubtedly Thomas of "vVoedltoek, llOl, falling without iflue at tlie battle 



youniica fon of Edward III., created of Aginconrt, A. D. 1415, Richard, foa 



hukc of Glocefter by his nephew Richai d of the Earl of Cambridge, became head 



II. The great military force which ac- of that branch of the royal houfe. 



ccjinpanied tlie fovereign upon this expe- King Richard IL, who was much at- 



dition, induced the Lilh chieftains to taehcd to the houfe of iMarch, formed a 



■mtike tlicir fubmilhons, and formally to refolution to undertake a fecoud expedi- 



acknowlediie themlelves liegemen of the tion to Ireland, in order to avenge" tha 



Kinu;, whofe vanity beine thus gratified, death of his kinfman. And conftituting 



he 'dlfplaved during his retidence'^in Dub- his uncle, the Duke cf York, regent of 



lin all that pomp and magnificoice which the kingdom, he embarked once more in 



fiiitcd his temper and underftandlng; ai.d the fpring of the year 1S99, at Briftol, 



the four -jrtat native princes, O'N al of with a gi eat force for that country, at- 



UKter, 0*'ConnorufConnauElit, O'Brien tended, as Dr. Leiand informs us, "by 



of iAIuiiRer, and M'Murcl'.ad ofLeiiilier, feveial nobles, ainon;r whom were the 



who all repaired in perfon to the metro- Duke of Er.cter, the Earl of Saiiibury, 



polls, were treated by the lawlilh mo- Ibme prelates, the fon of the Dfike of 



iiarch with great courtefyand condrfcen- Gloccfler, and the young Lord Henry of 



fioii, and were feutcd in their njbes of Laucaiter, fon to the Ear! (if Hereford." 



Itate at the king's taUe. In CDnfequcnce of a feries of impru- 



After remaining nine months in this dcncie.s, the king loon found himfelf in- 



comitry, he returned, with, the greater voivcd in extreme embarrairments ; and 



part <jf his army, into England, witliout the chieftain M'Mujciwd, u\ a confcr- 



MoMHiY M.iQ., No. 149. Jir wiea 



