HENRY. 
proached to manhood, Henry difplayed a chee totally 
unqualified for his royal ftation. One of his firft falfe fteps 
was _ difcarding his ableft and moft faichfal eee Hu- 
-bert du Burgh, and giving his confidence to rapacious and 
sepsaeipied foreigners. He was foon obliged to relinquifh 
ndy and the other French provinces, after which a 
n England, and the king was taken 
The tide of affairs turning in his 
He cancelled the great char- 
ter, and fuffered the pope to appoint an archbifhop. of Can- 
terbury, and to collect the nee of the kingdom. He died 
at St. . Edmondfbury i in the 64th year of his age, and 56th of 
He was noted for his piety and devotion, and for 
He was incapable 
eibe a tyrant; yet t of oppreffion - 
his iain which “ inconfiftent w vith. “ll rules. of goo 
ea men O whole, it ma affirmed, oe 
eater bites, with good difpofitions, would have pre- 
ven im alling into his faults; or with worfe 
—? ould have enabled him to maintain and defend 
em. 
Henry IV. furnamed mags A the firft king of the 
houfe of a cafter, was born in 1367. He was the eldeit 
‘fon of John “of ane: duke a ‘Panciter; third fon of 
Edward III., by the heirefs of Edmond earl of a 4 
fon of Henry III. In the reign of Richard II. 
made earl of Derby, and then duke of Hereford. Under 
this ble he appeared in the parliament of 1398, and pre- 
erre ie acculation of high treafon againft Mowbray, duke 
of Norf enge enfued, but the king banifhed the 
pte ae from his kingdom. ereford, on the death of 
his father, in 1399, fucceeded to the dukedom of Lancatter, 
and laid claim to the eftates belonging to his title, which 
the king sefuted to grant. The duke therefore landed with 
a retinue to make good his title, and being jomed by feve 
of the difcontented nobles, he foon found himfelf at the 
head of 60,000 men. The feeble Richard refigned his 
ily removed 
ired againit the fovereign, whom th ad ju ore 
elevated to the throne. ‘Their plots ee gees and 
the authors configned to the hands executioner, 
Henry, to ingratiate himfelf with the geet profefied a 
high | regard for piety, and the bene a of the church; 
ay give pron of his » he ig art without fiefitadion 
» thofe caret of herefy to the flames. 
andi art et ota the reign was difguited by civil esos 
etween the soa of York and Lancaiter, on account of 
The c ceria contelts which a tated 
nted the monarch’s 
cares x. futurity ; andi in mippertca to the decay of ‘the king” :. 
he igth, 
before his death. He d to Senate 
his confcience by a se cage of slg the crofs and vifiting 
the Holy Land, but died i 1413, before he 
- gould execute his plans, in the 46th year of his age, and 
the 13th of his reign. was exceedingly popular when 
he came to the throne, but he foon loft the favour of the 
people, who were pr | at the means he ufed to 
get and to fecure the crown, firlt ie Agen and then 
ae ed his fub- 
jects. more by terror than affection,. more by his own. policy 
thas by their fenfe of duty or allegiance. His fituation,. if 
he retained any fenfe of virtue, was the moft unenviable that 
ean. well be conceived: and the inquietude with which he 
poflefled his greatnefs, and the remorfes by which, it is 
faid, he was continually haunted, render him an objeat of 
our pity. is pr udence, vigilance, and’ forelight, in main- 
taining his power, were admirable ;, his gommand of temper 
temarkable; his courage, Shoth military and political,. Mia 
‘out a blemifh ; ; and he “pofleffed many qui aves which 
him for his high flation.. His reign, upon the whole, ‘te 
been regarded as Roache to the nation, and peter 
favourable to the nen of the Commons. 
Henry V.. was. wee at Wokatnkh in 1383, and fuc- 
ceeded to the throne on. a ike father’s death in 1413. In his 
youth he was very wild, but on ¢oming to the crown he 
Giicarded. his Rocritions companions, and conducted eid 
He treated with high 
sched 
c 
fhould go to Henry a nat + Mee 
feparab y united to that of England. Henry, after efpoul- 
ing Catharine, took poffeffion of Paris, and made himfelf 
matter of fome nei n eighbouring places. 
Chis prince poffeffed many virtues, and his Me Auk a 
aivane | in the cabinet andthe field. ‘The boldn of i 
dite ‘was no lefs remarkable than his perfonal valont 
Friends be ae ability, and of gaining his enemies Dy. 
ant Englifh, dazzled b 
charaéter, flill more than by that of his vidtories, were 7 
coneiled to the’ defe&s i in his title : the French almoft forgot 
that he was th : 
in ui chal admi 
ties infeparable from Woks wars in 
almoft entir entirely occupied. 
