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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40792	The history of the most unfortunate prince King Edward II with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites, Gaveston & Spencer, containing several rare passages of those times, not found in other historians / found among the papers of, and (supposed to be) writ by Henry Viscount Faulkland ...	Falkland, Henry Cary, Viscount, d. 1633.; Fannant, Edward.	1680 (1680)	Wing F314; ESTC R8909	44,640	88

the use of Church-Ornaments than how to handle his Weapons or manage an Army he is intercepted and sent to Prison where he dies before he had so much as muster'd his Congregation This Cloud dispersed the Queen believes it a fit time to take her leave of her assistant Strangers who mainly hasten their departure She was unwilling they should be witnesses to the unnatural succeeding Tragedy which was too much for her own Kingdom and unfit for the Strangers Climate which was filled with the belief of her Vertue and Honour She liberally and freely requites to each particular the minute of his Pains and Travel but Sir John of Henalt and the better sort are honoured with many rich Jewels and Gifts besides continuing Annuities and annual Revenues They hold themselves nobly contented and taking a solemn leave are honourably attended to Dover leaving the Kingdom with a merrier Eye than when they first beheld it Now is the Earl of Lancaster who though he had least cause was nobly disposed towards his old Master removed and delivers over his Charge by Indenture to Sir Morice Barkeley and Sir John Mattrevers who lead him back to his first place of Imprisonment where in the presence of his Keepers he one day in a melancholy Passion doth thus discourse his Sorrows Alas Is my Offence so great that it deserves nor pity nor assistance Is human Piety and Goodness so wholly lost that neither in Child Wife Servant or Subject appears the least expression of Love or Duty Admit my Errors unexcusable wherein I will not justifie my self nor accuse others though it hath taken from me the Glory of my former Being I am yet a Father and a Husband these titles are without the jurisdiction of Fortune If I be so where is the Affection and Duty that becomes the Child and Wedloc Sure my Misery hath not made me such a Basilisk or Monster that my sight should beget or Fear or Hatred can they believe a danger in the visitation of a poor distressed Captive I know their hardned Hearts are not so noble and apt for Compassion that they need suspect themselves or me in so poor a courtesie What then occasions this neglect or estrangement Are they not content to enjoy all that was mine as yet by the Laws of God Man and Nature but they must despise and forsake my withered Ruines Alas I know my poor Children are Innocent both they and my injurious Queen are betrayed by cunning wicked Mortimer whom if I had paid with his just desert when Heaven and his own Guilt had laid him at my Mercy I had not lived to endure this Affliction nor he to be the insulting Instrument of my Dishonour But Time and this sad Trial hath taught me Patience and learned me how to know the height of my Misfortunes which if my divining Spirit err not will not be long unseen and unrevenged Am I unworthy to be seen I am then unfit to live and will receive it as a well-becoming pity if my Death may send me hence from this so great a Sorrow When he had thus ended and with a few manly Tears smother'd in the depth of that heart-breaking sigh that enforc'd his silence he was by one of his Attendance made this ruff uncivil Answer My Lord your Wife and Children are jealous and fearful of your cruel furious Nature whereof both they and the Kingdom have too true a knowledge to trust you Besides they are informed your resolution is fixed to do them mischief if they approach your danger This keeps your Queen from you she once so truly loved My Queen quoth he hath she that remaining Title while I that made her so am less than nothing Alas poor wretched Woman Hath she nor could she sind no other more tolerable excuse than this so faint a pretended fear and danger Is there a possibility in her suspicion Or have I the means if I were so resolved to do it that am here a poor forsaken Man as far from Power as Comfort And fellow thou that takest so audacious and sawcy a Liberty to character thy Soveraign's Disposition which thou art bound to Honour and not to question Know Edward 's Heart is as free from thy base Aspersion as thine from Truth or Honesty When he had ended these words he retires himself to his Chamber sad and melancholy believing his case was hard and desperate when so base a Groom durst face to face affront him The Queen and Mortimer revelling now in the height of their Ambition and Felicity had yet a wary Eye to the main which they knew did principally rest on the safeguard and sure keeping of the deposed King Though they had all the marks and essential parts of an absolute Soveraignty the Name alone excepted yet they had unquiet and troubled thoughts in the fear and imagination of losing it They saw their plausible Incomes was dully continued and there was a beginning murmur against the manner of their Proceedings They knew there was no constancy in the People that would be as ready to take them off as they were to bring them on in any new stirring or Innovation The Lords that were their principal Supporters were content but not satisfied all things concurring to make them suspect their own condition Edward the Father's faults were extenuated his Vices ascribed to those that had betrayed him and his Estate infinitely pitied that had so dishonourable a usage far short of what in justice appertained to the honour of his first Calling These Reports made their Ears tingle and incites them in time to think upon some besitting Remedy Many ways and devices are thought upon but they all are subject to some manifest imperfection On this Mortimer falls to the matter roundly and tells the Queen plainly That there is no way left to make all sure but absolutely to take away the Cause and to leave the Party by Edward's death hopeless that by his life sought to make a new Combustion The Queen whose Heart was yet innocent of so deep a Transgression was deeply and inwardly troubled with this unhappy Proposition She believed his sufferings were already greater than his faults and was unwilling to stain the opinion of her worth and vertue with so foul an Act of injustice She was assured it could not be so done but it would be discovered if the Eyes of Men could be blinded yet that all-knowing power of Heaven would reveal and punish it Such deep Actions of crying Sins are seldom long unrevenged which made her most unwilling that her consent should pass or be assistant To kill a King her Husband that had once so dearly loved her was more than an Act of Blood nor could she expect but that the Son grown up would revenge the death of the Father Therefore quoth she sweet Mortimer let us resolve rather any other hazard than this which is waited on with so great Infamy and certain Ruin Mortimer replies Madam who hath the benefit of time

glorious that are thus unjustly wronged My blushing Cheek may give you knowledge I too much Honour the Cause of mine Affliction to let my Tongue discover it Yet this in Duty and Modesty I may ingenuously confess My Royal Husband is too far seduced his Ear is too open his Will too violent and his Heart too free to those bewitching Syrens that make his Errors their Profit and Glory All hope of his return is lost so long as they shall live and remain his Leaders How many of his noblest and bravest Subjects have attempted his freedom and by an unjust and inglorious Death miscarried Alass all expectations are vain and desperate if I had not known the impossibility to disinchant him I had not in so mean and miserable a case stoln to you for Succour You have a fair way to make known to the World the truth of your own Glory and Goodness Fortune leads you by the hand to an Action not more Just than Honourable if you would dispute it Can there be a more precious Motive to invite you than the view of these unhappy Ruins See here two Royal Branches of the Flower-de-luce withering sullied and depressed Would you truly consider how great and noble a Work it is to support those that are unworthily oppressed Heaven and Earth must witness the true value of your Worth and my Petition Let it not breed a Jealousie or Discouragement that I appear before you and seek your help with so poor a Train and mean Attendance Besides the Justice of my Cause I bring with me the Griefs and Hearts of a Kingdom that have both Sworn and Vow'd to defend it Nor may you with reason doubt their Integrity while you have my wretched self and the Heir apparent to be your Pawn and Warrant For God's sake Sir by your own Virtue and Goodness I desire it and in the challenge of that Royal Blood whereof by the Laws of God Men and Nature I have so large a Share and Interest Let not after Ages taint your Memory with such an Aspersion That you are the first of all the Kings of France that denied to relieve a Sister so deeply wronged and distressed She would have spoken more but here the big swoln Fountains of her watry Eyes discharge their heavy burthen Her Tears like Orient Pearls bedew her lovely Cheeks while she with a silent Rhetoric invites a noble pity Her sad Complaint won a general remorse and her liquid Tears a deep and strong compassion Her Brother vows Revenge and promiseth to make England and the World know she was his Sister The Lords and Peers of France tender their ready help and assistance the Service is so hotly pursu'd that the poor Queen with an abused confidence believes she shall be speedily and strongly righted 'T was not alone her Error it is a general Disease We easily credit that News we most desire and hope for The Spencers whose watchful eyes were soon informed of these Passages too late condemn their own Improvidence and Folly that gave the wronged Queen so fit and fair an advantage They fear not all the Power of France but suspect Intestine danger where they knew the Hearts of all were alien'd and estranged They well enough understood the vanity of Female Passion but suspect that the rising Son would be follow'd and admir'd whilst their declining Master would be left forsaken and dejected These Conceits work so deeply that they conclude they must fall if they could not stop the Foreign Danger The English were Cow'd there was in them no fear unless the strangers strength gave them new Life and Spirit In so weighty a Cause there was no time left for delay or dalliance They dispatch presently away their Agents to the French Court laden with the Treasure of the Kingdom and many glorious Promises They instruct them how to apply themselves to the Time and present Necessity and teach them the way to work and undermine the Queen's Proceedings These Messengers arriving at Paris find the French heat well qualified and cooled This gave them more time and hope to bring their Master's Will and their own Imployment to a speedy perfection They set upon the Pillars of State such as in their Master's Ear or in his Council had most sway and preheminence they give freely and promise more till they have won a firm and fair assurance No one had an Interest and was known to be a favourer of the adverse Party but his Tongue is tied with a golden Chain to a perpetual silence When thus this Practice was ripe the King is persuaded of the danger and peril of so great and weighty an Action His Sister's Reputation and intemperate Carriage though tenderly is often touched A Woman's Passion is believed too weak a Reason to engage two so Warlike Nations in a War wherein themselves had formerly so often suffered The King for all his first great and high Expression had much rather have to do with the English in their own Kingdom than in France yet was well enough content not to try their Arms in either Yet still he feeds his sorrowing Sister with good words pretending many vain Excuses which made her suspect and doubt his meaning She arms her self with a noble patience hopeful at least that she and her son might there remain in peace and safety By the intercourse of Messages that had so often pass'd and repass'd the Spencers are assured that their Affairs in France went fairly on by which they were well onward in their Journey There could be yet no certain or assured confidence until they had again gotten the Queen and her Son into Possession No Promise or Persuasion is left to win her to return but her Ears were stopt she too well knew the sweet Enticements of such alluring Serpents This Project falling short a solemn Letter is fram'd from King Edward to the Pope and a Messenger after their own hearts appointed to carry it The Contents were full of Humility and Bitterness complaining to his Holiness That his Wife had without just Cause forsaken both Him and his Kingdom carrying away his Son the stay of his Age without his leave or license a Traytor to Him and his Crown that had publickly acted a Rebellion and was taken and Imprison'd for it had made an escape and was now her sole Companion and though he was not hasty to report or credit ye he had just cause to fear he was the abuser of his Wedlock The King of France with whom he had sworn so solemn and firm a League being Summon'd had denied to restore her These goodly Glosses and Pretexts find a ready passage and an easie belief where there was none to contradict or justifie If these Aspersions had been as they were pretended just and true the Fact had been odious and justly deserved a fair and speedy reformation The greater Cardinals that were at that time most great and eminent had tasted deeply of the King's bounty which gave the