. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. si -:...|. sister-in-law secretly at Guildford. Thither she brought the young prince, her son/ to assist her in moving his powerful uncle to lend his aid in replacing her husband on the tlu'one. Henry, de Blois, touched by the tears and entreaties of these interesting supphcants, and biu*ning w
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. si -:...|. sister-in-law secretly at Guildford. Thither she brought the young prince, her son/ to assist her in moving his powerful uncle to lend his aid in replacing her husband on the tlu'one. Henry, de Blois, touched by the tears and entreaties of these interesting supphcants, and biu*ning with rage at the insolent treatment he had received from the imperial virago, whom Camden quaintly styles ' a niggish old wife,' solemnly promised the queen to forsake the cause of her rival. Immediately ou his return to Winchester the prelate fortified his castle, and having prepared all things for declaring liimself in favoiu' of his brother, he sent messengers to the queen, begging her to put herself at the head of the Kentishmen and Londoners, and march with her son, prince Eustace, to ' Tlie empress Matilda and the earl of Gloucester having some intelligence of Henry de Blois* proceedings, advaiicec from Oxford, accompanied by David king of Scotland, at tlie head of an array, to overawe him. When they approached the walls of Winchester, the empress sent a herald to the legate, requesting a conference, as she had something of im- portance to communicate; but to this requisition Henry de Blois only rephed, " Parabo me"^ that is, " I will prepare myself;" and finding that the Norman party in Winchester was at present too strong for him, he left the city, and retired to his strong castle in the subiu-bs, causing, at the same time, so imexpected an attack to be made on the empress, that she had a hard race to gain the shelter of the royal citadel " To comprise," says Wilham of Malmesbury, " a long scries of events within narrow limi
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