. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. ip. To this lastcondition it is said that he was long repugnant,on account of a passion he himself entertainedfor Alice, which was certainly unseemly at histime of life. He also stipulated to pay a sum ofmoney to the French king, and to grant a par-don to all Richards adherents. The mortifica-tion Henry received from these humiliatingterms was aggravated to despair on his dis-covering the name of his favourite son Jo
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. ip. To this lastcondition it is said that he was long repugnant,on account of a passion he himself entertainedfor Alice, which was certainly unseemly at histime of life. He also stipulated to pay a sum ofmoney to the French king, and to grant a par-don to all Richards adherents. The mortifica-tion Henry received from these humiliatingterms was aggravated to despair on his dis-covering the name of his favourite son Johnamong the delinquents. He cursed the day ofhis birth, and pronounced a malediction uponhis undutiful sons, which he would never after-wards retract. The anguish of his mind threwhim into a slow fever, which put an end to hislife at the castle of Chinon nsar Saumur, inJuly, 1189, in the fjfty-eighth year of his ageand thirty-fifth of his reign. He left onlytv/o legitimate sons, Richard and John, andthree daughters, married to the duke of Saxony,the king of Castille, and the king of Sicily. Henry IL ranks among the greatest princesof the English line, not only in extent of. I. Henricus \^lue^ex1D:A^: st ..dnJ^avue .D: J^iher: HEN ( 151 ) HEN dominion, but in all the qualities which givelustre to a throne, lie was equally fitted for\v.\r and peace, for the active scenes of , and the enjoyment of cultivated was manly in person, of an engaging coun-tenance, and possessed of a ready had warm affections, and seems little tohave deserved the ingratitude with which hewas treated. His wis^lom and love of justicewere recognised by foreign potentates, whomade him arbiter of their diiTerences. Am-bition was his ruling passion, and circumstancesfavoured him in indulging it with less violationof equity than usual amoifg ambitious princes;but the extent of his continental possessionswai the obvious cause of his principal misfor-tunes
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