134 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 



obsequious bearing and dissembling of his pleasures, 

 to the very end. She was much affectionate to her 

 own kindred, even unto faction ; which did stir 

 great envy in the lords of the king s side, who 

 counted her blood a disparagement to be mingled 

 with the king s. With which lords of the king s 

 blood joined also the king s favourite, the Lord 

 Hastings ; who, notwithstanding the king s great 

 affection to him, was thought at times, through her 

 malice and spleen, not to be out of danger of falling. 

 After her husband s death she was matter of tragedy, 

 having lived to see her brother beheaded, and her 

 two sons deposed from the crown, bastarded in their 

 blood, and cruelly murdered. All this while never 

 theless she enjoyed her liberty, state, and fortunes : 

 but afterwards again, upon the rise of the wheel, 

 when she had a king to her son-in-law, and was 

 made grandmother to a grandchild of the best sex ; 

 yet was she, upon dark and unknown reasons, and 

 no less strange pretences, precipitated and banished 

 the world into a nunnery; where it was almost 

 thought dangerous to visit her, or see her; and 

 where not long after she ended her life : but was 

 by the king s commandment buried with the king 

 her husband, at Windsor. She was foundress of 

 Queen s College, in Cambridge. For this act the 

 king sustained great obloquy, which nevertheless* 

 besides the reason of state, was somewhat sweetened 

 to him by a great confiscation. 



About this time also, Edward Plantagenet was 

 upon a Sunday brought throughout all the principal 



