A History of the Life of Edward the Black Prince Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. III. THE FIRST INDUCEMENTS WHICH LED EDWARD III. TO INVADE FRANCE. THE CHARACTER AND LIFE OF ROBERT OF ARTOI8. ? HE AIDS PHILIP OF VALOIS TO ASCEND THE THRONE. RENEWS HIS CLAIM TO THE COUNTY OF ARTOIS. IS BANISHED AND PERSECUTED BY THE KING. TAKES REFUGE IN ENGLAND. HIS HONOURABLE RECEPTION BY EDWARD III., THEN ENGAGED IN THE SCOTTISH WAR. THE CONDUCT OF BALIOL.? PHILIP OF VALOIS PRIVATELY SUPPORTS THE SCOTS. ? A NEW CRUSADE PREACHED BY POPE BENEDICT XII.? PHILIP VISITS AVIGNON, TAKES THE CROSS, AND MAKES GREAT PREPARATIONS FOR A HOLY WAR. HIS MOTIVES EXAMINED.? HE SENDS AN EMBASSY TO EDWARD DEMANDING HIS CO-OPERATION. EDWARD'S REPLY AND SUBSEQUENT PROPOSALS.?PHILIP REFUSES TO BIND HIMSELF TO GIVE NO ASSISTANCE TO THE SCOTS DURING EDWARD'S ABSENCE.?WAR DETERMINED ON. ? ROBERT OF ARTOIS SEIZES THE MOMENT TO URGE AN INVASION OF FRANCE.?EDWARD RESOLVES TO FOLLOW HIS SUGGESTION. ? PREPARATION FOR CONFEDERATION AGAINST PHILIP.? EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE CREATED DUKE OF CORNWALL. Perhaps no period in the range of history affords a more striking example of what infinite evils may follow many nations, through many centuries; from the follies or vices of a single private individual, than the space comprised in the reigns of Philip of Valois and Edward III. Desolation and bloodshed were now about to spread over the face of the world; and though it is more than probable, that a war of a minor extent between England and France would soon have ensued from other causes, yet there can be no doubt that the persecution of one of his subjects by the King of France hurried the commencement of hostilities, and gave them a peculiar, an extensive, and a pertinacious character. The man, whose suggestions, more than any other motive, tended to incite Edward ...