Miscellanies, antiquarian and historical / By F. Sayers.

  • Frank Sayers
Date:
1805
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    16) brought forward by Scroope;* but neither on this occafion again does Edmund ‘himfelf appear to have been a¢tive, and the injudicious and hatfty at- tempt of his friends was as haftily defeated. — While the uncle of the Earl of March was liv-— ing, he attracted the notice of Henry much more ftrongly than the nephew; but foon after the de- ceafe of that nobleman, either the defign of Scroope, or fome imprudent conduét, with which we are unacquainted, of Edmund Mortimer him- felf, awakened the fears of the king, and he be- gan to difcover much anxiety to fecure the perfon of a youth whofe right to the throne of England was fo clearly fuperior to his own: the wifhes of Henry were foon gratified; and the Earl of March a3 well as his brother, were feized, and confined in Windfor Caftle about the year 1406. | pig | After * Rapin, vol 1. p. 496. + «In the fame year, (7th Henry IV.) the king fo *°>much confided in this Sir John Pelham, that till the meeting
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