Miscellanies, antiquarian and historical / By F. Sayers.

  • Frank Sayers
Date:
1805
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    Southampton, the traiterous defigns of the Ear! of Gambridge,* and inthe lift of illuftrious. men * The particulars of this affair are thus recorded by Stowe: (p. 346) ** The chiefeft of them (the confpirators) was Henry Scroope Lord Treafurer, the fecond Richard Earle of Cambridge, and Sir Thomas Gray, a knight of the North; thefe had made Edmond Earle of March to fwear upona booke, not to difclofe their counfell, and then told ‘him that they thought to flay the King, and to make the faid Edmond King; the which af, he refufed to take upon him they would flay him: whereupon the Earle prayed them to give him one hour’s {pace to take advifement what wwas belt to doe ; which being granted, the Earle went fe- cretly and told the King thereof, who caufed them forth- with to be apprehended.” Holinfhed (vol. 111. p. 549) agrees with Stowe in ftat- ing the objeét of the Earl of Cambridge, in this con{piracy to have been the exaltation of the Earl of March to the Crown; ‘after the death of which Earle,” fays he, for diverfe {ecret impediments not able to have iffue, the Earle of Cambridge was fure that the crowne fhould come to him by his wife, and to his children of her begotten.” Mortimer appears to have very wifely fufpefted ithat the bloody means which the Earl of Cambridge was fo willing to have employed in promoting his am- bitious views on this occafion, would in all probability have been as .readily adopted by that nobleman in removing any other impediment which might have ftood between him and the throne. | who
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