HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 191 



went, in a manner of pilgrimage, to Walsingham, 

 where he visited our lady s church, famous for mira 

 cles, and made his prayers and vows for help and 

 deliverance : and from thence he returned by Cam 

 bridge to London. Not long after the rebels, with 

 their king, under the leading of the Earl of Lincoln, 

 the Earl of Kildare, the Lord Lovel, and Colonel 

 Swart, landed at Fouldrey, in Lancashire ; whither 

 there repaired to them Sir Thomas Broughton, with 

 some small company of English. The king by that 

 time, knowing now the storm would not divide, but 

 fall in one place, had levied forces in good number ; 

 and in person, taking with him his two designed 

 generals, the Duke of Bedford, and the Earl of 

 Oxford, was come on his way towards them as far as 

 Coventry, whence he sent forth a troop of light horse 

 men for discovery, and to intercept some stragglers 

 of the enemies, by whom he might the better under 

 stand the particulars of their progress and purposes, 

 which was accordingly done ; though the king other 

 wise was not without intelligence from espials in the 

 camp. 



The rebels took their way toward York, without 

 spoiling the country, or any act of hostility, the better 

 to put themselves into favour of the people and to 

 personate their king ; who, no doubt, out of a 

 princely feeling, was sparing and compassionate 

 towards his subjects : but their snow-ball did not 

 gather as it went, for the people came not in to them; 

 neither did any rise or declare themselves in other 

 parts of the kingdom for them ; which was caused 



