This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...The King quitted the Border immediately after the battle of Shrewsbury, in order to secure the northern counties. Early in the spring he had appointed Prince Henry his lieutenant in Wales,4 and now on quitting the Marches, on the 25th of July, the King then at Stafford, gave him authority to pursue the rebels, as well ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...The King quitted the Border immediately after the battle of Shrewsbury, in order to secure the northern counties. Early in the spring he had appointed Prince Henry his lieutenant in Wales,4 and now on quitting the Marches, on the 25th of July, the King then at Stafford, gave him authority to pursue the rebels, as well as to pardon and receive into favour those that would turn to their allegiance.' Although Glyndwr did not succeed in joining the Percies before their engagement with the King's army, he nevertheless invaded the neighbouring English counties with a formidable army. On one occasion the rival armies encamped within a short distance of each other, in the neighbourhood of Leominster, but no engagement took place. It appears that the English merely drove the Welsh over the Border. After the King had repressed the presumption of his northern barons, he returned to direct the operations of his army in the Borders, in person. We find him at Worcester on the 8th of September, giving orders for strengthening the Welsh castles, the neglect of which he says had been the cause of Glyndwr's success.6 From Worcester he proceeded to Hereford, where we find him on the 14th, giving power to William Beauchamp to take into his grace the rebels about Abergavenny, and Ewyas Harold. From Hereford the King marched directly into Wales. On the 15th of September he was at Devynork, in the neighbourhood of Brecknock, granting a commission similar to the one just mentioned, to Sir John Oldeastle, John ap Henry, and John Fairford, clerk, to pardon and disarm the inhabitants of the districts of Brecknock, Buelth, "Cancresselly," Hay, "Glynbeng," and Dynas.' On the 27th of September the King proclaimed a general pardon to such of the people of Cheshire, wi...
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