On a following morning, having heard an early mass and drank some wine, their majesties em- barked for England, landed at Dover, and passed to the palace at Eltham.

Fifteen days afterwards she went to the Tower, and made a grand entry into the metropolis, where a tournament was proclaimed, for forty knights, at the ensuing Candlemas.

THE reign of Henry IY was short arid disturbed.

He had gained the sceptre from the unpopularity of the preceding sovereign; not from his own pre- tensions, plottings, ambition, or peculiar desert.

The majority of the nation wished the removal of Richard, and they gratulated Henry with warm ac- clamations, because he presented himself as the sub- stitute; because his reputation was fair; and because, from his affinity to the royal blood, he was, tho not the next entitled yet so near in right, that his elevation made the smallest legal breach that on such a dislocation of the sovereign power by vio- lence, and under the pressing exigencies of the nation, could occur in the succession.