192 HISTORY OE KING HENRY VII. 



partly by the good taste that the king had given his 

 people of his government, joined with the reputation 

 of his felicity ; and partly for that it was an odious 

 thing to the people of England to have a king 

 brought in to them upon the shoulders of Irish and 

 Dutch, of which their army was in substance com 

 pounded. Neither was it a thing done with any 

 great judgement on the party of the rebels, for them 

 to take their way towards York : considering that 

 howsoever those parts had formerly been a nursery of 

 their friends, yet it was there where the Lord Lovel 

 had so lately disbanded, and where the king s pre 

 sence had a little before qualified discontents. The 

 Earl of Lincoln, deceived of his hopes of the coun 

 try s concourse unto him, in which case he would 

 have temporised, and seeing the business past retract, 

 resolved to make on where the king was and to give 

 him battle; and thereupon marched towards Newark, 

 thinking to have surprised the town. But the king 

 was somewhat before this time come to Nottingham, 

 where he called a council of war, at which was con 

 sulted whether it were best to protract time, or 

 speedily to set upon the rebels. In which council 

 the king himself, whose continual vigilancy did suck 

 in sometimes causeless suspicions which few else 

 knew, inclined to the accelerating a battle, but this 

 was presently put out of doubt by the great aids that 

 came in to him in the instant of this consultation, 

 partly upon missives and partly voluntaries, from 

 many parts of the kingdom. 



The principal persons that came then to the 



