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proceeds to Calais. -- Thence to London. -- Reception by his Subjects. -- His modest and pious Demeanour. -- Superstitious proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Authorities. -- Reflections. -- Songs of Agincourt. Page 156
CHAPTER XXIV.
1415-1417.
Reasons for delaying a Second Campaign. -- Sigismund undertakes to mediate. -- Reception of Sigismund. -- French Ships scour the seas, and lay siege to Harfleur. -- Henry's vigorous measures thereupon. -- The Emperor declares for "Henry and his Just Rights." -- Joins with him in Canterbury Cathedral on a Day of Thanksgiving for Victory over the French. -- With him meets the Duke of Burgundy at Calais. (p. vi) -- The Duke also declares for Henry. -- Second Invasion of France. -- Siege of Caen. -- Henry's Bulletin to the Mayor of London. -- Hostile Movement of the Scots. Page 203
CHAPTER XXV.
1418-1419.
Henry's progress in his Second Campaign. -- Siege of Rouen. -- Cardinal des Ursins. -- Supplies from London. -- Correspondence between Henry and the Citizens. -- Negociation with the Dauphin and with the French King. -- Henry's Irish Auxiliaries. -- Reflections on Ireland. -- Its miserable condition. -- Wise and strong measures adopted by Henry for its Tranquillity. -- Divisions and struggles, not between Romanists and Protestants, but between English and Irish. -- Henry and the See of Rome. -- Thraldom of Christendom. -- The Duke of Brittany declares for Henry. -- Spaniards join the Dauphin. -- Exhausted State of England. Page 221
CHAPTER XXVI.
1419-1420.
Bad faith of the Dauphin. -- The Duke of Burgundy brings about an Interview between Henry and the French Authorities. -- Henry's first Interview with the Princess Katharine of Valois. -- Her Conquest. -- The Queen's over-anxiety and indiscretion. -- Double-dealing of the Duke of Burgundy; he joins the Dauphin; is murdered on the Bridge of Montereau. -- The Dauphin disinherited. -- Henry's anxiety to prevent the Escape of his Prisoners. Page 249
CHAPTER XXVII.
(p. vii)
1419-1420.
Henry's extraordinary attention to the Civil and Private duties of his station, in the midst of his career of Conquest, instanced in various cases. -- Provost and Fellows of Oriel College. -- The Queen Dowager is accused of Treason. -- Treaty between Henry, the French King, and the young Duke of Burgundy. -- Henry affianced to Katharine. -- The Dauphin is reinforced from Scotland. -- Henry, accompanied by his Queen, returns through Normandy to England. Page 262
CHAPTER XXVIII.
1421-1422.
Katharine crowned. -- Henry and his Queen make a progress through a great part of his Dominions. -- Arrival of the disastrous news of his Brother's Death (the Duke of Clarence). -- Henry meets his Parliament. -- Hastens to the Seat of War. -- Birth of his Son, Henry of Windsor. -- Joins his Queen at Bois de Vincennes. -- Their magnificent Reception at Paris. -- Henry hastens in person to succour the Duke of Burgundy. -- Is seized by a fatal Malady. -- Returns to Vincennes. -- His Last Hour. -- HIS DEATH. Page 286
CHAPTER XXIX.
Was Henry of Monmouth a Persecutor? -- Just principles of conducting the Inquiry, and forming the Judgment. -- Modern charge against Henry. -- Review of the prevalent opinions on Religious Liberty. -- True principles of Christian Freedom. -- Duty of the State and of Individuals to promote the prevalence of True Religion. -- Charge against Henry, as Prince of Wales, for presenting a Petition against the Lollards. -- The merciful intention of that Petition. -- His Conduct at the Death of Badby. Page 319
CHAPTER XXX.
(p. viii)
1413.
The Case of Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham. -- Reference to his former Life and Character. -- Fox's Book of Martyrs. -- The Archbishop's Statement. -- Milner. -- Hall. -- Lingard. Cobham offers the Wager of Battle. -- Appeals peremptorily to the Pope. -- Henry's anxiety to save him. -- He is condemned, but no Writ of Execution is issued by the King. -- Cobham escapes from the Tower. Page 348
CHAPTER XXXI.
Change in Henry's behaviour towards the Lollards after the affair of St. Giles' Field. -- Examination of that affair often conducted with great Partiality and Prejudice. -- Hume and the Old Chroniclers. -- Fox, Milner, Le Bas. -- Public Documents. -- Lord Cobham, taken in Wales, is brought to London in a Whirlicole; condemned to be hanged as a Traitor, and burned as a Heretic. -- Henry, then in France, ignorant, probably, of Cobham's Capture till after his Execution. -- Concluding Reflections. Page 376
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Case of John Clayton, Richard Gurmyn, and William Taylor, burnt for Heresy, examined. -- Result of the Investigation. -- Henry not a Persecutor. -- Reflections. Page 393
APPENDIX.
No. I. Ballad of Agincourt. 417 No. II. Siege of Rouen. 422 No. III. Authenticity of the Manuscripts--Sloane 1776, and Reg. 13, c. 1. 425

MEMOIRS OF HENRY OF MONMOUTH (p. 001)
CHAPTER XVII.
HENRY OF MONMOUTH'S ACCESSION. -- NATIONAL REJOICINGS. -- HIS PROFOUND SENSE OF THE AWFULNESS OF THE CHARGE