[42] [Mons. Licquet is paraphrastically warm in his version, here. He
renders it thus: "les atteintes effroyables du vandalisme
revolutionaire," vol. i. p. 64.]

[43] Sandford, after telling us that he thinks there "never was any
portraiture" of the Duke, thus sums up his character. "He was justly
accounted one of the best generals that ever blossomed out of the
royal stem of PLANTAGENET. His valour was not more terrible to his
enemies than his memory honourable; for (doubtful whether with more
glory to him, or to the speaker) King Lewis the Eleventh being
counselled by certain envious persons to deface his tomb (wherein with
him, saith one, was buried all English men's good fortune in France)
used these indeed princely words: 'What honour shall it be to us, or
you, to break this monument, and to pull out of the ground the bones
of HIM, whom, in his life time, neither my father nor your
progenitors, with all their puissance, were once able to make flie a
foot backwarde? who, by his strength, policy and wit kept them all out
of the principal dominions of France, and out of this noble duchy of
Normandy? Wherefore, I say first, GOD SAVE HIS SOUL; and let his body
now lie in rest, which when he was alive, would have disquieted the
proudest of us all. And for THIS TOMB, I assure you it is not so
worthy or convenient as his honour and acts have deserved.'" p. 314-5,
Ed. 1707[A] The famous MISSAL, once in the possession of this
celebrated nobleman, and containing the only authenticated portrait of
him (which is engraved in the _Bibliog. Decameron_, vol. i. p.
cxxxvii.) is now the property of John Milner, Esq. of York Place,
Portman Square, who purchased it of the Duke of Marlborough. The Duke
had purchased it at the sale of the library of the late James Edwards,
Esq. for 687l. 15s.

[A] [Upon this, Mons. Licquet, with supposed shrewdness and
success, remarks,--"All very well: but we must not forget that the
innocent Joan of Arc was burnt alive--thanks to this said Duke of
Bedford, as every one knows!"]

[44] [A different tale may be told of ONE of his Successors in the same
Anglo-Norman pursuit. The expenses attending the graphic
embellishments alone of the previous edition of this work, somewhat
exceeded the sum of _four thousand seven hundred pounds._ The risk was
entir