Charles Dickens             Read All Book KING HENRY THE SEVENTH did not turn out to be as fine a fellow as the nobility and people hoped, in the first joy of their deliverance from Richard the Third. He was very cold, crafty, and calculating, and would do almost anything for money. He possessed considerable ability, but […]

Charles Dickens             Read All Book KING RICHARD THE THIRD was up betimes in the morning, and went to Westminster Hall. In the Hall was a marble seat, upon which he sat himself down between two great noblemen, and told the people that he began the new reign in that place, because the first duty of […]

Charles Dickens             Read All Book THE late King`s eldest son, the Prince of Wales, called EDWARD after him, was only thirteen years of age at his father`s death. He was at Ludlow Castle with his uncle, the Earl of Rivers. The prince`s brother, the Duke of York, only eleven years of age, was in London […]

Charles Dickens             Read All Book KING EDWARD THE FOURTH was not quite twenty-one years of age when he took that unquiet seat upon the throne of England. The Lancaster party, the Red Roses, were then assembling in great numbers near York, and it was necessary to give them battle instantly. But, the stout Earl of […]

Charles Dickens             Read All Book PART THE FIRSTIT had been the wish of the late King, that while his infant son KING HENRY THE SIXTH, at this time only nine months old, was under age, the Duke of Gloucester should be appointed Regent. The English Parliament, however, preferred to appoint a Council of Regency, with […]

Charles Dickens             Read All Book FIRST PARTTHE Prince of Wales began his reign like a generous and honest man. He set the young Earl of March free; he restored their estates and their honours to the Percy family, who had lost them by their rebellion against his father; he ordered the imbecile and unfortunate Richard […]

Charles Dickens             Read All Book DURING the last reign, the preaching of Wickliffe against the pride and cunning of the Pope and all his men, had made a great noise in England. Whether the new King wished to be in favour with the priests, or whether he hoped, by pretending to be very religious, to […]

Charles Dickens             Read All Book RICHARD, son of the Black Prince, a boy eleven years of age, succeeded to the Crown under the title of King Richard the Second. The whole English nation were ready to admire him for the sake of his brave father. As to the lords and ladies about the Court, they […]

Charles Dickens             Read All Book ROGER MORTIMER, the Queen`s lover (who escaped to France in the last chapter), was far from profiting by the examples he had had of the fate of favourites. Having, through the Queen`s influence, come into possession of the estates of the two Despensers, he became extremely proud and ambitious, and […]

Charles Dickens             Read All Book KING Edward the Second, the first Prince of Wales, was twenty-three years old when his father died. There was a certain favourite of his, a young man from Gascony, named PIERS GAVESTON, of whom his father had so much disapproved that he had ordered him out of England, and had […]