And STANLEY inwardly rejoiced to hear, And RICE AP THOMAS* seized his Cambrian spear. Last came BosSWORTH's warlike trial, First to the soldiery some words address, And HENRY on that well fought day, His worth and valour to repay, Received a crown upborne on Vict'ry's wings. * A Welch Chief, of great influence, who was one of the first to join Henry when he landed at Milford. Richard's body, after being exposed, was buried in the church of the Grey Friars, in Leicester. Henry VII. bestowed a monument on it, which was demolished at the dissolution of Abbies, under Henry VIII; and the monarch's stone coffin actually served for a horse-trough, at the White Horse Inn: Sic transit gloria mundi! Just Just at this scene young GLO'STER 'woke, And begg'd, not relishing the joke, His tutors would so civil be, But that which is decreed by fate, HOUSE HOUSE OF TUDOR, AND UNION OF THE FAMILIES OF YORK AND LANCASTER. SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF HENRY THE SEVENTH. Born in Wales, A. D. 1457. Crowned 1485, on the Field of Battle. Married Elizabeth, Daughter of Edward IV. Had issue, Arthur, Prince of Wales, who died, aged 17; Henry, who succeeded to the Throne; Edmund and Edward, both died young; as did Elizabeth and Catherine; Margaret, married to James IV. of Scotland; Mary, to Louis XII. of France, and subsequently to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Henry reigned near Twenty-three Years. Died April 22d, 1509, in the Fifty-second Year of his age; and was buried at Westminster. . PRINCIPAL EVENTS. Insurrections, and defeat, of Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck the first pretending to be the Earl of Warwick, the latter, Duke of York. Death of the Earl of Warwick. Prince Henry marries his deceased Brother's betrothed Wife. The Star Chamber Court established. America, and the Cape of Good Hope, discovered. The King built Chapels at Windsor and Westminster, and turned the Savoy Palace into an Hospital. The Sweating Sickness made great mortality. EMINENT PERSONS. John Morton, Henry Chicheley, Thomas Langton, Archbishops of Canterbury. Margaret, Countess of Richmond, Mother Mother of the King; (named in the Catalogue of Royal Authors). Cardinal Morton, Lord Chancellor. Fox, Bishop of Winchester. Sebastian Cabot, a great Navigator. Empsom and Dudley, extortionate Ministers of the King. COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS. Innocent VIII. 1484. 1503. Julius III. 1503. Popes. Alexander VI. 1492. Pius III. Emperors. Of Germany.-Frederic III. 1440. Maximilian I. 1493. Kings and Queen. Of France.-Charles VIII. 1483. Louis XII. 1498. Of Scotland.-James III. 1460. James IV. 1489. * Till this period Spain had been divided into three different Governments, viz. Leon, Castile, and Arragon, under distinct Sovereigns; but, by the marriage of Ferdinand with Isabella, Heiress of Castile and Arragon, the whole was united in one Kingdom. LOCKMAN. HENRY HENRY THE SEVENTH. "Proud, dark, suspicious, brooding o'er his gold.” THOMSON. "We will unite the White Rose with the Red." "There grows "In my most ill-composed affection, such SHAKESPEARE. "Of a noble race was Shenkin,” WELCH BALLADS. In metre most unpolished, Than which, not the times were ruder, My muse shall sing, We gained a King From the house of OWEN TUDOR. Who woo'd the beauteous widow, Of fighting fifth KING HARRY; Stepp'd kindly down A simple 'squire to marry. |