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Title: Historical portraits ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon press
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ester above mentioned,both imbued him with a love of learning which remained hisconsolation during his long and miserable reign. His first tutor inmartial exercises was Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, whoperhaps ill-treated him and gave him a disgust for such matters ; forhe seems to have been a tender and delicate boy. He was crownedat Westminster in 1429 and at Paris in 1430. But, with the appear-ance of Joan of Arc in 1429, the French possessions began to slipfrom the English grasp, and the disappointed Lancastrian princesthereupon began to quarrel among themselves at home. Henry wascontinually obliged to make peace between his uncles, and the deathof the Duke of Bedford, the ablest and perhaps the best of them, in1435, was a severe loss to his nephew. Beaufort and Gloucesterwere perpetually quarrelling, and their quarrels disgusted the piousand unworldly boy, who, at the age of eighteen, turned to the solidwork of his life, the establishment of his great foundations for learn-
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Face i \-i HENRY VIFrom the portrait at Eton College HENRY VI 13 ing at Eton and Cambridge. These he pursued with a resoluteness,an attention and an insight which are worthy of all praise, and whichentirely dispose of all stories to the effect that he was of weakintellect. The only other matter in which the King showed anyinterest was the possibility of a peace with France, and this, whichreally redounded so much to his honour, was the very thing that madehis contemporaries despise him. A marriage with a French princess(several were suggested) would probably form an important part ofany treaty, and at last Henry obtained a step towards such a treatyby consenting to marry Margaret of Anjou in 1445; the FrenchKing, Charles VII, who was rapidly reconquering his northernprovinces, took no notice of the match, but was not ill pleased at it;and soon after its arrangement he concluded a truce for two years.But every disappointed English plunderer of France, noble andyeoman alike, exclaimed a

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