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Invafion of JULIUS CESAR, to the
Death of King GEORGE I

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The Reigns of the three Kings of the House of
York, EDWARD IV, EDWARD V, and
RICHARD III. Containing the pace of
24 years and a half.

16. EDWARD IV.

KING Edward IV. begins his Reign, being about 18 Ann. C.

Queen Margaret having raifed, in the North, an army Mar. 4. of 60,000 men, King Edward puts himfelf at the head Reg. 1. of his army, and marches from London in queft of the Mar. 12. Queen, with a refolution to fight her.

He detaches Sir John Ratcliffe to fecure the pafs of Ferribridge upon the Are, but Sir John is beat from thence by the Lord Clifford, and flain.

Richard Nevil, Earl of Warwick, is alarmed at this accident, but the King fhowing great fteadiness and refolutiVOL. II.

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Ann. C. on, detaches William Nevil Lord Fauconbridge to recover that paffage, which he accordingly does; the Lord Clifford, and others, being flain. Whereupon King Edward paffes his army over the Are, and immediately marches in quest of the enemy.

Mar. 29.

The two armies meet between Saxton and Towton, Henry's confifting of 60,000 men, and King Edward's of 48,660; and, there coming to an engagement, King Henry's is defeated, with the lofs on both fides of 36,776 perfons: And, among the reft, Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland, John Nevil Earl of Westmoreland, &c.

Thomas Courtney, Earl of Devonshire, being taken, is beheaded.

King Edward having caufed his Father's head, and the Earl of Salisbury's, to be taken down from the walls of York, and put others in their room, returns to London, June 8.

He endeavours to raife commotions in Scotland, in order to prevent King Henry's getting any affiftance from thence: And, on the other hand, proposes to conclude a truce with that Kingdom; but Queen Margaret breaks his measures, Apr. 25. by furrendering Berwick to the Scots, and concluding a marriage between Prince Edward her fon, and Margaret, fifter of King James,

June 29.
July 22.

Νου. 4.

1462. Reg. 2.

King Edward is crowned at Westminster.

Charles VII, King of France, dies, and is fucceeded by Lewis XI.

Queen Margaret, leaving the late King her husband, and the Prince her fon, in Scotland, goes to France, to defire fuccours.

A Parliament meets at Westminster, in which the late King Henry VI, Queen Margaret, and their chief Adherents, to the number of 140, are attainted.

John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and Aubrey his fon are beheaded.

King Edward makes a treaty with the Earl of Rofs, in order to raise difturbances in Scotland.

William Nevil Lord Fauconbridge, is made High-Admiral of England.

Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and Ralph Percy, come and fubmit to King Edward, and are pardoned.

King Edward grants the Clergy this remarkable privilege, That for the future all Ecclefiaftical perfons, indicted for any crime, fhould be tried in the Ecclefiaftical Courts, without the interpofition of the King's Judges; and also,

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