. An English history with illustrations and maps/ by Symes ; adapted for use in Canadian elementary schools by George M. Wrong. and unto King 126 AN ENGLISH HISTORY Henry then went he, and delivered it as to the most worthyto wear that ciown and he their kinjf. With Richards death on Bosworth Field ended the WarsSocial changes of the Roses. He was the last of the fightingof the time. kings,—of the rulers whose chief task was tocurb the fighting barons. While the barons, with hosts ofretainers, had been exhausting their resources in the long civilwar, the ti-aders in the towns, taking litt
. An English history with illustrations and maps/ by Symes ; adapted for use in Canadian elementary schools by George M. Wrong. and unto King 126 AN ENGLISH HISTORY Henry then went he, and delivered it as to the most worthyto wear that ciown and he their kinjf. With Richards death on Bosworth Field ended the WarsSocial changes of the Roses. He was the last of the fightingof the time. kings,—of the rulers whose chief task was tocurb the fighting barons. While the barons, with hosts ofretainers, had been exhausting their resources in the long civilwar, the ti-aders in the towns, taking little part in thestruggle, had been growing rich. In the ravages of war agood many of the great families were almost killed off, andbetween this and their poverty it had come to pass, whenRichard III fell, that the barons counted for much less inEngland than they had ever done before. Henceforth, if aking were popular with the merchant classes, he had little tofear from any group of barons. Over England, and overEurope too, other changes were coming, with the result thatthe classes engaged in commerce were growing powerful. The. The Known World in thk Time of Richard the Third. recent invention of printing had made easy the circulation ofideas. Mens minds were aroused. Literary and artisticinterests, that had died out during the middle ages, now beganto revive. Men studied art; they read, and a good manywrote, books. They travelled, and a spirit of adventure was THE HOUSE OF YORK 127 soon to lead to the discovery of America, and of a sea route toIndia by the Cape of Good Hope. A great upheaval in the
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