HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 115 



air, gathered by the predispositions of seasons ; and 

 the speedy cessation declared as much. 



On Simon and Jude s even the king dined with 

 Thomas Bourchier, archbishop of Canterbury and 

 cardinal : and from Lambeth went by land over the 

 bridge to the Tower, where the morrow after he made 

 twelve knights bannerets. But for creations he dis 

 pensed them with a sparing hand. For notwith 

 standing a field so lately fought, and a coronation so 

 near at hand, he only created three : Jasper, earl of 

 Pembroke, the king s uncle, was created Duke of 

 Bedford ; Thomas, the Lord Stanley, the king s 

 father-in-law, Earl of Derby ; and Ed ward Courtney, 

 Earl of Devon ; though the king had then never 

 theless a purpose in himself to make more in time of 

 parliament; bearing a wise and decent respect to 

 distribute his creations, some to honour his corona 

 tion, and some his parliament. 



The coronation followed two days after, upon 

 the thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord 

 1485 ; at which time Innocent the Eighth was Pope 

 of Rome; Frederick the Third, Emperor of Almain; 

 and Maximilian his son newly chosen King of the 

 Romans ; Charles the Eighth, King of France ; Fer- 

 dinando and Isabella, Kings of Spain ; and James 

 the Third, King of Scotland : with all which kings 

 and states the king was at that time in good peace and 

 amity. At which day also, as if the crown upon his 

 head had put perils into his thoughts, he did insti 

 tute, for the better security of his person, a band of 

 fifty archers, under a captain, to attend him, by the 

 name of yeomen of his guard : and yet that it might 



