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Henry The Fifth
From a drawing by G. P. Harding after an original Picture inKensington Palace.

HENRY OF MONMOUTH:

OR,

MEMOIRS

OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF

HENRY THE FIFTH,

AS

PRINCE OF WALES AND KING OF ENGLAND.

BY J. ENDELL TYLER, B.D.

RECTOR OF ST. GILES IN THE FIELDS.

"Go, call up Cheshire and Lancashire,
And Derby hills, that are so free;
But neither married man, nor widow's son;
No widow's curse shall go with me."

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,

Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1838.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

(p. iii)

TO HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTYTHE QUEEN.

Madam,

The gracious intimation of your Royal pleasure that these Memoirs ofyour renowned Predecessor should be dedicated to your Majesty, whileit increases my solicitude, suggests at the same time new and cheeringanticipations. I cannot but hope that, appearing in the world underthe auspices of your great name, the religious and moral purposeswhich this work is designed to serve will be more widely andeffectually realised.

Under a lively sense of the literary defects which render thesevolumes unworthy of so august a patronage, to one point I may revertwith feelings of satisfaction and encouragement. I have gone(p. iv)only where Truth seemed to lead me on the way: and this, in yourMajesty's judgment, I am assured will compensate for manyimperfections.

That your Majesty may ever abundantly enjoy the riches of HIS favourwho is the Spirit of Truth, and having long worn your diadem here inhonour and peace, in the midst of an affectionate and happy people,may resign it in exchange for an eternal crown in heaven, is theprayer of one who rejoices in the privilege of numbering himself,

PREFACE.

(p. v)

Memoirs such as these of Henry of Monmouth might doubtless be mademore attractive and entertaining were their Author to supply thedeficiencies of authentic records by the inventions of his fancy, andadorn the result of careful inquiry into matters of fact by thedescriptive imagery and colourings of fiction. To a writer, also, whocould at once handle the pen of the biographer and of the poet, fewnames would offer a more ample field for the excursive range ofhistorical romance than the life of Henry of Monmouth. From the day ofhis first compulsory visit to Ireland, abounding as that time doeswith deeply interesting incidents, to his last hour in the now-ruin

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