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Title: Young people's history of England
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893
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Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shephard New York, C.T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ime, wasburned at the stake. The death of the Duke of Bedford,soon after that of Joan of Arc, was a fatal blow to theEnglish arms in France. The rivalries of the French prin-ces died out, and they united in defence of the kingdom.Meanwhile, rivalries had arisen among the great Englishlords, so that the war was not carried on by the invaderswith its former energy. The result was that, after a seriesof lano^uid hostilities, the EnMish lost one by Victories ^ ^ ■ by the one all the provinces which they had taken fromFrench. fi-ance, the seaport town of Calais alone remain-ing in their possession. The same fierce discords which had long rent Francebroke out, soon after Bedfords death, in En-gland. Hum-phrey Duke of Gloucester was protector in the kingsminoritv; but he was bitterly opposed bv a party Gloucester ^ \ \ ^ / V,- and Beau- headed by the powerful Cardmal Beaufort, Bish-^°^^ op of Winchester. Beaufort was half-great-uncle of the king; and his two brothers, the Earl of Somerset
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JOAN OF ARC IN BATTLE.-Page i 64. THE WARS OF THE ROSES. 165 and the Duke of F^xeter, supported him in his oppositionto Gloucester. The main issue between the rival partiesconcerned the war with France. Beaufort wished to makepeace, and finally succeeded in that end. It was he, too,who brought about the marriage of King Henry with Mar-garet of Anjou, who was destined to play a bold and stir-ring part in the events to come. To this marriage Glou-cester and his faction were bitterly hostile. It happenedthat Beaufort and Gloucester died within a very brief pe-riod of each other (1447). But they only left the held toother fierce contestants for power. A claimant to the throne appeared in the person ofRichard Duke of York. He based his claim on his de-scent from Mortimer, w^ho had been the rightful Richardheir by inheritance of Richard the Second. o^York.York was also the heir of Edward the Thirds fifth son,Edmund; so that in him was united the blood of two ofEdward the Thirds sons. The yo

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