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would not neglect any thing for his safety, thinking 

 nevertheless to perform all things now rather as an 

 exercise than as a labour. So he being truly in 

 formed that the northern parts were not only affec 

 tionate to the house of York, but particularly had 

 been devoted to King Richard the Third, thought it 

 would be a summer well spent to visit those parts, 

 and by his presence and application of himself to re 

 claim and rectify those humours. But the king, in 

 his account of peace and calms, did much overcast 

 his fortunes, which proved for many years together 

 full of broken seas, tides, and tempests. For he was 

 no sooner come to Lincoln, where he kept his Easter, 

 but he received news that the Lord Lovel, Hum 

 phrey Stafford, and Thomas Stafford, who had for 

 merly taken sanctuary at Colchester, were departed 

 out of sanctuary, but to what place no man could 

 tell : which advertisement the king despised, and 

 continued his journey to York. At York there came 

 fresh and more certain advertisement, that the Lord 

 Lovel was at hand with a great power of men, and 

 that the Staffords were in arms in Worcestershire, 

 and had made their approaches to the city of Wor 

 cester to assail it. The king, as a prince of great 

 and profound judgement, was not much moved with 

 it ; for that he thought it was but a rag or remnant 

 of Bosworth-field, and had nothing in it of the main 

 party of the house of York. But he was more 

 doubtful of the raising of forces to resist the rebels, 

 than of the resistance itself; for that he was in a 

 core of people whose affections he suspected. But 



