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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B.

CHAPTER XVIII
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560.
*** Chron.

Otterborne, p.

225.
**** Rymer, vol.viii.p.

353.
{1405.} But Northumberland, though he had been pardoned, knew that he never should be trusted, and that he was too powerful to be cordially forgiven by a prince whose situation gave him such reasonable grounds of jealousy.

It was the effect either of Henry's vigilance or good fortune, or of the narrow genius of his enemies, that no proper concert was ever formed among them: they rose in rebellion one after another; and thereby afforded him an opportunity of suppressing singly those insurrections which, had they been united, might have proved fatal to his authority.


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