us, amiable, and obsequious to the last degree, she never
met with a proper return of affection, or even of complaisance, from her
husband; and the malignant ideas of faction still, in his sullen mind,
prevailed over all the sentiments of conjugal tenderness.

The king had been carried along with such a tide of success ever since
his arrival in England, that he thought nothing could withstand the
fortune and authority which attended him.

He now resolved to make a progress into the north, where the friends of
the house of York, and even the partisans of Richard, were numerous, in
hopes of curing, by his presence and conversation, the prejudices of
the malecontents. When he arrived at Nottingham, he heard that Viscount
Lovel, with Sir Humphrey Stafford, and Thomas his brother, had secretly
withdrawn themselves from their sanctuary at Colchester: but this news
appeared not to him of such importance as to stop his journey; and he
proceeded forward to York. He there heard that the Staffords had levied
an army, and were marching to besiege the city of Worcester; and that
Lovel, at the head of three or four thousand men, was approaching to
attack him in York. Henry was not dismayed with this intelligence. His
active courage, full of resources, immediately prompted him to find
the proper remedy. Though surrounded with enemies in these disaffected
counties, he assembled a small body of troops, in whom he could confide;
and he put them under the command of the duke of Bedford. He joined to
them all his own attendants; but he found that this hasty armament was
more formidable by their spirit and their zealous attachment to him,
than by the arms or military stores with which they were provided. He
therefore gave Bedford orders not to approach the enemy; but previously
to try every proper expedient to disperse them. Bedford published a
general promise of pardon to the rebels, which had a greater effect
on their leader than on his followers. Lovel, who had undertaken an
enterprise that exceeded his courage and capacity, was so terrified
with the fear of desertion among his troops, that he suddenly withdrew
himself; and after lurking some time in Lancashire, he made his escape
into Flanders, where he was protected by the duchess of Burgundy. His
army submitted to the king's clemency; and the other rebels, hearing of
this success, raised the siege of Worcester, and dispersed themselves.
The Staffords took sanctuary in the church of Co