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London, and that with greater appearance of uni- 

 versal joy, than either his first entry or his corona- 

 tion. Henry remarked with much displeasure this 

 general favour borne to the house of York. The 

 suspicions which arose from it, not only disturbed 

 his tranquillity during his whole reign, but bred 

 disgust towards his consort herself; and poisoned 

 all his domestic enjoyments. Though she was 

 virtuous, amiable, and obsequious to the last degree, 

 she never met with a proper return of his affection, 

 or even of complaisance, from her husband ; and 

 the malignant ideas of faction still in his sullen 

 mind, prevailed over all the feelings of love. 

 This amiable but ill-treated queen bore to Henry 

 several sons and daughters ; the most celebrated of 

 her sons was Henry, who succeeded his father in 

 the throne, by the title of Henry VIII. ; and her 

 daughter Margaret, who married James IV.,* king 



with all due form and ceremony for some weeks prior 

 to their marriage. The curious may also find in this 

 scarce volume, amusing accounts of Henry Vll's progress 

 towards the north, his princely entertainment and recep- 

 tion at York ; and of the procession and coronation of 

 that amiable young prince Edward VI. 



* James IV., king of Scotland, was in his 16 year 

 when he had the misfortune to stand in battle against 

 his father James III : whose murder raised him to the 

 crown in 1488. Remorse for his unfilial conduct was 

 one of the first feelings which attended his elevation, 

 and he condemned himself to wear an iron chain round 

 his body, to which he added one link for every succeed- 

 ing year. In 1503 he married Margaret, daughter of 

 Henry VII., but in the disastrous battle ef Flodclen- 

 field, so fatal to the Scottish nobility, he fell mortally 

 wounded, while bravely fighting in the centre of his 

 troops, and around him fell the flower of the Scottish 



