HENRY. 
raifing the fiege of Orleans by Jo 
gave a new turn to affairs, and the Englifh intereft 
dechned. e was made with France, 
Wakefield, and the duke of York was flain. He left a fon, 
Edward, who reflored the caufe of the family, and by his fuc- 
cefs obtained the crown by popular acclamation. The peop. 
ing affembled in St. John’s Fields, the ear wicl 
demanded if they would have Edward or Henry for their 
King? The general cry was, for “ A York ;” the young 
duke being prefent they elééted him king, by .the name of 
Edward WV. and conduéted him with great ceremony to 
; en within the walls 
Floren as ae an 
in Cambridge owes its original foundation. “ 
_ Hexrx VIE, firft of the race of Tudors, born in 1457, 
was fon of Edmond, earl of Richmond, and — 
Owen Tudor and Catharine of France, the widow of Henry 
V. His mother w : the only child of John, duke of Somer- 
fet, grandfon of Johm of Gaunt. | He was thus the reprefent- 
ative branch of the royal houfe of Lan 
ation and tyranny of Richard LIL. the 
; Richmond, as a young price 
vernment:in England, and amatch 
Edward LV., which thould unite the two houfes of York 
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two thoufand troops, and was immediately -joined by many 
perfons of rank and confequence in that part of the country, 
by whofe influence and example he foon found himfelf at the 
head of fix thoufand men. Richard met him in Bofworth 
field, with an army of double that number, but victory des 
cided for the earl, the king was flaix, and the conqueror was 
ailed on the field of battle with the title of Henry VII. 
Parliament was foon affembled, who recognized 
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Morton and Fox, two clergymen, from whom he probably 
more obfequioufnels, than from the nobility of the 
Difcontents foon arofe, and while he was on. a. 
journey into the north, an infurrectioa took place, which was- 
foon fuppreffed; but a more ferious di‘turbance, almoft 
immediately fucceeding the other, was exci 
fon of a baker, t 
of the duke of Clarence, whom Henry 
Tower. Semnel was fent to aét his part in Ireland, and was 
actually proclaimed king at Dublin. He then ventured over 
to England, where he was led to expect fupport from the 
adherents to the duke of York, but the king having caufed 
the true earlof Warwick to be publicly: fhewn in the itreets 
London, few were difpofed to joi the impottor. A battle 
however enfued, in which the leaders of the rebels were flain, 
and all who had given the fmalleft countenance to the confpis 
racy were feverely fined ; avarice, rather than revenge, being. 
the ruling paffion of Heary. Young Semnel he treated with, 
contempt, by giving him freely his life, and making him the 
feullion of i Feecien, Semnel had been encouraged in his. 
projects by the lifter of Edward IV., the duchefs dowager of 
Burgundy, governefs of the Low Countries, who_ never 
ceafed to purfue Henry. Her court had been the refuge of 
the mal-tontents ; and fhe now brought forward anew ad-. 
venturer on the ttage. She propagated a report that 
Richard, the younger of the fons of Edward: IV., fuppofed. 
to have been murdered in the Tower, had efcaped 
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high treafon, among the reft Stanley, lord chamberlain, the 
brother 
preven aa ted, for the prefen 
caufe he had undertaken to.advocate, he was glad, after # 
 ftand, to feek the protection of a fanétuary. His wife, 
Tee ner into. the king’s. pen 
about the perfon of the queen, with a liberal penfion. — 
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