8.
** Polyd.Virg.Hall, fol.240.Holingshed, p.

703.
Habington p.474.Grafton, p.

742.
But the match was rejected with disdain;[*] and Edward, resenting this treatment of his brother-in-law, permitted France to proceed without interruption in her conquests over his defenceless ally.

Any pretence sufficed him for abandoning himself entirely to indolence and pleasure, which were now become his ruling passions.

The only object which divided his attention was the improving of the public revenue, which had been dilapidated by the necessities or negligence of his predecessors; and some of his expedients for that purpose, though unknown to us, were deemed, during the time, oppressive to the people.[**] The detail of private wrongs naturally escapes the notice of history; but an act of tyranny of which Edward was guilty in his own family, has been taken notice of by all writers, and has met with general and deserved censure.
* Hall, fol.