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ROUEN 176

VIEW OF BORDEAUX 180

THE TEMPLE GARDEN 192

THE LITTLE PRINCE AND HIS SWANS 220

MURDER OF RICHARD'S CHILD 235

LOUIS XI., MARGARET'S COUSIN 251

MAP OF THE BORDER 255

MARGARET AT THE CAVE 263

DEATH OF WARWICK 289

TEWKESBURY 297

THE MURDER OF PRINCE HENRY 302

VIEW OF CHERTSEY 308

[Illustration: Map, Illustrating the History of Margaret of Anjou.]

MARGARET OF ANJOU.

CHAPTER I.

THE HOUSES OF YORK AND LANCASTER.

[Sidenote: A real heroine.]

Margaret of Anjou was a heroine; not a heroine of romance and fiction,
but of stern and terrible reality. Her life was a series of military
exploits, attended with dangers, privations, sufferings, and wonderful
vicissitudes of fortune, scarcely to be paralleled in the whole
history of mankind.

[Sidenote: Two great quarrels.]

She was born and lived in a period during which there prevailed in the
western part of Europe two great and dreadful quarrels, which lasted
for more than a hundred years, and which kept France and England, and
all the countries contiguous to them, in a state of continual
commotion during all that time.

[Sidenote: Contest between the houses of York and Lancaster.]

The first of these quarrels grew out of a dispute which arose among
the various branches of the royal family of England in respect to the
succession to the crown. The two principal branches of the family
were the descendants respectively of the Dukes of York and Lancaster,
and the wars which they waged against each other are called in history
the wars of the houses of York and Lancaster. These wars continued for
several successive generations, and Margaret of Anjou was the queen of
one of the most prominent representatives of the Lancaster line. Thus
she became most intimately involved in the quarrel.

[Sidenote: Wars in France.]

The second great contention which prevailed duri