The Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads Volume 1; P. [301]-328 "Dissertation on the Ancient English Morris Dance, by Francis Douce" V. 1, P. 329-365 Biographical Notice of Joseph Ritson [With Portrait] V. 2, P. [I]-XXII Tunes to the Robin Hood Ballads, Ed. B (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...J of the lands of all the persons who had been, or were then, engaged in the rebellion, and the gift of them to the king, was one of the first measures on which the parliament determined. 'It was not to be supposed/ says Mr. Hunter, 'that a parliament thus assembled, before the excitement had time to subside, would proceed in the spirit of moderation in respect of the measures which the king might be advised to take; or that the king himself, who had just escaped from a restraint of fourteen months' duration, would be unwilling to avail himself of the advantageous position in which he was placed, to break for ever a power which he had found so dangerous.' True, but all Henry's dangerous enemies perished at Evesham; and, with Henry's known character before our view, we cannot attribute his motives thus, but rather, as Sir James Mackintosh expresses it, 'to the unmanly insolence of a feeble mind intoxicated by undeserved success.' Would any regard to his own power, for it could not have been a care for the safety of his According to the Red Book of the Exchequer, the time of war lasted from April 4th, 1264, to September 16th, 1265. t Mackintosh's "History of England," vol. i. p. 244. Cf. Chron. Wykes. "Post haec Eduardus de Londinensibus et pluribus aliis triumphans, nee fidem nee spem datam pluribus observavit; sed crudelitatibus inserviens, quosdam in prisione vitam finire fecit, et alios exhaeredans, terras eorum suis fautoribus pro parte distribuit"--W. de Nangis, Spicil. Luc. Dacher. torn. iii. p. 41. "Rex ergo, mortuo domino Symone de Monteforti, ad suos et priorem statum suum reversus est"--MS. Cotton, Cleop. A. i. fol. 191. r. a. Cf. MS. Harl. 6359; MS. Cart. Antiq. Cotton, xi. 18. Most of Leicester's own possessions...