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Title: Essentials in English history (from the earliest records to the present day)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Albert Perry, 1862-1911 Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943
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Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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nd men ; published a manifesto charging upon Rebellionthe kings ministers excessive taxation, exclusion of the ^ ^ ^*^^lords of royal blood from a share in the government, j)romotionof upstarts, abuse of purveyance, or right to seize goods forthe royal household, false claims to land, treasonable loss ofFrance, extortion, and undue interference with elections, fromall of which the country was suffering; and demanded therestoration of the Duke of York to power. The rebels weretricked into dispersing, and Cade was killed, but the populardemand for reform could not be stilled. Edmund, Duke of Somerset, nephew of Cardinal Beaufort,succeeded Suffolk as the rival of Richard of York. He had EISTGI^AND During tlie Wars of The Roses SCALE OF MILES ■DisrrictB where lorgcBt laIl(lo^YnerBadhered to Lancaster districts where largest Umdovrnenadhered to York Districts where neither party predominated Dietrlcta held bj members of the rojaljamily, and-therefore trbnoferred with change pf rulers SEA
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I..L.roAT£8,.EHQ>R, (I.Y. 4 Lonintude s H c a Weet 2 from Greenwich 0 Eaat _^,,ER-tffTcd 232 DYNASTIC WARS OF YORK AND LANCASTER 233 the support of the queen, Margaret of Aujou, who believedthat York was plotting to secure the succession to the throne.A son, Edward, was born to her in 1453; but a few weeks 252. Ri-earlier Henry had been seized with an illness which valryofresulted in temporary idiocy, and rarliament, ignoring SomersetMargarets wishes, appointed the Duke of York Protector (1450-1455)and Defender of the Realm. On the kings recovery, a fewweeks later, he restored the Beaufort faction to power; andYork, claiming that Ids legal rights and even his personalsafety were endangered, rallied his followers at Leicester andmarched toward London. He was met by the royal army atSt. Albans, and in the battle that followed (May 1455) Edmundof Somerset was slain, the king was taken prisoner, and Yorkbecame head of the Kings Council. The battle of St. Albans marks the beginning of

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