THE PARLIAMENTARY OR CONSTITUTIONAL History of England; From the earlieft TIMES, TO THE Restoration of King CHARLES II. COLLECTED From the RECORDS, the ROLLS of PARLIAMENT, the JOUR- By SEVERAL HANDS.. The SECOND EDITION. VOL. II. From the Acceffion of King Henry IV. to the Death of King Henry VII. LONDON, Printed for J. and R. TONSON, and A. MILLAR, in the Strand; and THE Parliamentary History O F ENGLAND. T may well be faid that Henry IV. be- The Acceffion of Tower; for we do not find that he ever The new-elected King did not claim the Crown by that Right only, as judging it too precarious; but trumped up a much worse Title to it, by drawing his Pedigree from Edmund, furnamed Grouchback, as eldest Son of King Henry III. when it was then, and is now, notorious, that the faid Edmund was only fecond Son to Henry III. On the Day of his Coronation, however, he took more Strings to his Bow; and by Proclamation, then made, he claimed the Crown of England, Firft, By Conqueft; Secondly, Becaufe King Richard had refigned that Dignity, and defigned him VOL. II. for A a The last that we find, in the Public Acts, is dated at Westminster, September 20, the Day before he was fent to the Tower. |