This princess was only seven years of age; but the king agreed to so unequal a match, chiefly that he might fortify himself by this alliance against the enterprises of his uncles, and the incurable turbulence, as well as inconstancy, of his barons.
The administration of the king, though it was not in this interval sullied by any unpopular act, except the seizing of the charter of London,[******] which was soon after restored, tended not much to corroborate his authority; and his personal character brought him into contempt, even while his public government appeared in a good measure unexceptionable.
* Cotton, p.365.Walsing, p.

352.
** 15th August, 1388.
*** Froissard, liv.iii.chap.124, 125, 126.

Walsing, p.
355.
**** Rymer, vol.vii.p.

820.
***** Rymer, vol.vii.p.

811.
****** Rymer, vol.vii.