230 fa aucen'* afe. 



Margaret's church-yard. That lone mother is the beau- 

 tiful Queen of England, she has fled to sanctuary on the 

 approach of Warwick's army, for the ship, whose white 

 sails glisten in the clear cold moonbeams, conveys her 

 husband abroad in quest of succour. Stern men are 

 prowling round the gloomy building, but no one dares 

 to go within, for the queen has registered herself and her 

 three children, Elizabeth, Mary, and Cicely, and the 

 Lady Scrope, as inmates of sanctuary. That gloomy 

 place has sheltered murderers and robbers, men, too, 

 who were in peril of their lives, for treason against their 

 king ; but in the present evil times, ladies and young 

 children often find a home within its walls, when all 

 other homes are broken up. And thus, all comfortless 

 and forlorn, is waiting the Queen of England, for the 

 birth of that fair child, who first saw light within the sanc- 

 tuary of Westminster.* No distinction is therebetween 

 the kindred of a prince or peasant, when the crown is put 

 aside, no royal spell with which to chace away either 

 want or sorrow. The Queen of England soon began to 

 be in need, and must have been constrained to surrender 

 to the army of Queen Margaret, had not provisions been 

 secretly conveyed to her by a kind-hearted butcher of 

 the name of Gould, who could not bear, he said, to think 

 that the lady and her children should be distressed for 

 lack of food. 



* It is conjectured that the prince was born in the Jerusalem 

 Chamber, which the kind abbot relinquished to the queen. 



