ness to the end. For that (p. 443)
jealousies and alienations of confidence, fostered by the malevolence
of others,[330] had taken place between them in the course of the
preceding year, the very mention of the "ridings of gentils and huge
people with the Prince," twice recurring in the Chronicle of London,
seems of itself to force upon us. The accounts, at all events, such as
they are, which chroniclers give of their reconciliation, fix the date
of that happy issue of their estrangement to a period antecedent to
the last parliament of Henry IV. February 3.--Cras. Purif. 1413.

[Footnote 329: It cannot, however, be supposed that
this anonymous writer fabricated the story; he must
have copied it from some other writer, or put down
what he had learned by hearsay.]

[Footnote 330: The Author confesses his own opinion
to be that a party was formed at court (headed
probably by the Queen), jealous of the Prince's
influence, and determined to destroy his power with
his father. That, to oppose this party, the Prince
summoned his friends, and made a demonstration of
his power; (it is possible that he might have
expressed his readiness to act again in the
government for his father, as he had undoubtedly
done before:) and that, after much coldness and
alienation, father and son were fully reconciled.]

Although the life and reign of Henry IV. continued more than a year
and four months after the passing of the ordinance respecting the
coin, with an account of which this MS. abruptly closes, yet
(excepting what is involved in the extract above cited) not one single
word is said of the foreign and domestic affairs of the kingdom, or of
the life of the King, or of his death; though much of interesting
matter was at hand, and though a parliament was summoned, and actually
met fourteen months after the alteration of the coin. And such is the
close of a document, not like a yearly chronicle, or general register
of events, satisfied with giving a summary of the most remarkable
casualties in the briefest form; but a narrative which transcribes,
with unusual minuteness, the very words (at full, and with all their
technicalities,) of some of the most unimpor