{"id":195,"date":"2020-03-28T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=195"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:32:55","slug":"charles-dickens-a-childs-history-or-england-615","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/household-words-2\/charles-dickens-a-childs-history-or-england-615\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. 615"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Charles Dickens.] A CHILD\u2019S HISTORY OR ENGLAND. 615<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Duke of York accused the Duke\nof Somerset, and the Duke of Somerset ac\u00adcused the Duke of York; and, both in\nand out of Parliament the followers of each party were full of violence and\nhatred towards the other. At length, the Duke of York put himself at the head\nof a large force of his. tenants, and, in arms. demanded the reforma\u00adtion of\nthe Government. Being shut out of London, he encamped at Dartford, and the\nroyal army encamped at Blackheath. Accord\u00ading as either side triumphed, the\nDuke of York was arrested, or the Duke of Somerset was arrested. The trouble\nended, for the moment, in the Duke of York renewing his oath of allegiance, and\ngoing, in peace to one of his own castles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half a year afterwards the Queen\ngave birth to a son, who was very ill received by the people, and not believed\nto be the son of the King. It shows the Duke of York to have been a moderate\nman, unwilling to in\u00advolve England in new troubles, that he did not take\nadvantage of the general discontent at this time, but really acted for the\npublic good. He was made a member of the cabinet, and the King being now so\nmuch worse that he could not be carried about and shown to the people with any\ndecency, the duke was made Lord Protector of the kingdom, until he should\nrecover, or the Prince should come of age. At the same time the Duke of\nSomerset was committed to the Tower. So, now the Duke of Somerset was. down,\nand the Duke of York was up. By the end of the year, however, the King\nrecovered his memory and some spark of sense; upon which the Queen used her\npower\u2014which recovered with him\u2014to get the Protector disgraced, and her\nfavourite released. So, now the Duke of York was down, and the Duke of Somerset\nwas up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These ducal ups and downs\ngradually sepa\u00adrated the whole nation into the two parties of York and\nLancaster, and led to those terrible civil wars long known as the Wars of the\nRed and White Roses, because the red rose was the badge of the House of\nLancaster, and the white rose was the badge of the House of York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Duke of York, joined by some\nother powerful noblemen of the White Rose party, and leading a small army, met\nthe King with another small army at St. Alban\u2019s, and de\u00admanded that the Duke of\nSomerset should be given up. The poor King, being made to say in answer that he\nwould sooner die, was in\u00adstantly attacked. The Duke of Somerset was killed, and\nthe King himself was wounded in the neck, and took refuge in the house of a\npoor tanner. Whereupon, the Duke of York went to him, led him with great\nsubmission to the Abbey, and said he was very sorry for what had happened.\nHaving now the King in his possession, he got a Parliament summoned and himself\nonce more made Protector, but, only for a few months; for, on the King getting\na little better again, the Queen and her party got him into their possession,\nand disgraced the Duke once more. So, now the Duke of York was down again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the best men in power,\nseeing the danger of these constant changes, tried even then to prevent the Red\nand White Rose Wars. They brought about a great council in. London between the\ntwo parties; The White Roses assembled in Blackfriars, the Red Roses in\nWhitefriars; and some good priests communicated between them, and made the\nproceedings known at evening to. the King and the judges. They ended in a\npeaceful agreement that there should be no more quarrelling; and there was a\ngreat royal procession to St. Paul\u2019s, in which the Queen walked arm-in-arm with\nher old enemy, the Duke of York, to show the people how comfortable they all\nwere. This state of peace lasted half a year, when a dispute Between the Earl\nof Warwick (one of the Duke’s powerful friends): and some of the King\u2019s\nservants at Court, led to an attack upon that Earl\u2014who was a White Rose\u2014and to\na sudden breaking out of all the old animosities. So, here were greater ups and\ndowns than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were even greater ups and\ndowns than these, soon after. After various battles, the Duke of York fled to\nIreland, and his son the Earl of March to Calais, with their friends the Earls\nof Salisbury and Warwick; and a Parliament was held declaring them all\ntraitors. Little the worse for this, the Earl of Warwick presently came back,\nlanded in Kent, was joined by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other powerful\nnoblemen and gentlemen, engaged the King\u2019s forces at Northampton, signally\ndefeated them, and took the King himself prisoner, who was found in his tent.\nWarwick would have been glad, I dare say, to have taken the Queen and Prince\ntoo, but they escaped into Wales and thence into Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The King was carried by the\nvictorious force straight to London, and made to call a new Parliament, which\nimmediately declared that the Duke of York and those other noblemen were not\ntraitors, but excellent subjects. Then, back comes the Duke from Ireland at the\nhead of five hundred horsemen, rides from London to Westminster, and enters the\nHouse of Lords. There, he laid his hand upon the cloth of gold which covered\nthe empty throne, as if he had half mind to sit down in it\u2014but he did not. On\nthe Arch\u00adbishop of Canterbury asking him if he would visit the King, who was in\nthe palace close by, he replied \u201cI know no one in this country my lord, who\nought not to visit me.” None of the lords present, spoke a single word;\nso, the duke went out as he had come in, esta\u00adblished himself royally in the\nKing\u2019s palace, and, six days afterwards, sent in to the Lords a formal\nstatement of his claim to the throne. The lords went to the King on this\nmomentous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Dickens.] A CHILD\u2019S HISTORY OR ENGLAND. 615 the Duke of York accused the Duke of Somerset, and the Duke of Somerset ac\u00adcused the Duke of York; and, both in and out of Parliament the followers of each party were full of violence and hatred towards the other. At length, the Duke of York put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":664,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-195","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195\/revisions\/741"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}