It was the rising of Kent, the great manufacturing district of the realm, which brought about the victory of Northampton.

Throughout the struggle which followed London and the great merchant towns were steady for the House of York.

Zeal for the Lancastrian cause was found only in Wales, in northern England, and in the south-western shires.

It is absurd to suppose that the shrewd traders of Cheapside were moved by an abstract question of hereditary right, or that the wild Welshmen believed themselves to be supporting the right of Parliament to regulate the succession.

But it marks the power which Parliament had gained that, directly as his claims ran in the teeth of a succession established by it, the Duke of York felt himself compelled to convene the two Houses in October and to lay his claim before the Lords as a petition of right.