. Historical portraits ... or, and in thenext year Bishop of Winchester, attached himself particularly toHenry, Prince of Wales, and went out of office when that young manquarrelled with his father in 1411. On the Princes accession, asHenry V, Beaufort was restored to the Chancellorship, but resignedit in 1417, in order to attend the Council of Constance, where hecast his weight into the scale of the Pope as against the he now hoped for the Papal tiara for himself, but he wasdisappointed, and his King even forbade him to accept the cardinalshat which Pope Martin V pressed up
. Historical portraits ... or, and in thenext year Bishop of Winchester, attached himself particularly toHenry, Prince of Wales, and went out of office when that young manquarrelled with his father in 1411. On the Princes accession, asHenry V, Beaufort was restored to the Chancellorship, but resignedit in 1417, in order to attend the Council of Constance, where hecast his weight into the scale of the Pope as against the he now hoped for the Papal tiara for himself, but he wasdisappointed, and his King even forbade him to accept the cardinalshat which Pope Martin V pressed upon him. On the accession of theinfant Henry VI, his godson, the Bishop at once became one of theleading members of the Council, and also at once found himself inopen opposition to the Kings youngest uncle, Humphry, Duke ofGloucester: he was again Chancellor for a short time, but his realoffice, then and always, was that of moneylender-in-chief to the crownof England. It is a standing puzzle whence Beaufort could have drawn. CARDINAL BEAUFORT From an engraving of his tomb in Winchester Cathedral(From Veittsia Momtnicnta) Face p. lo HENRY BEAUFORT ii the enormous sums of money which for over thirty years he wascontinually lending to the Crown ; and the only intelligible solutionis that he thoroughly understood how to deal with money—in otherwords, was an accomplished and successful usurer. The quarrelsbetween Beaufort and Gloucester, which only ended with theirdeaths within a few weeks of each other in 1447, are wearisome totrace in detail, and are mainly of interest for their after effects; forthey led to the formation at the court of Henry VI ot the peaceparty and the war party , which a little later became the Lancastrianand the Yorkist parties. From the year 1435 at least Beaufort steadilylaboured to bring about a peace with France, and thereby increasedhis unpopularity, which was already great on account of hisreputation as an avaricious Churchman of un-English views, who
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