. 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. fl I' i I. 480 ISABELLA OF FRANCE. In the year 1313, to the great displeasure of the queen and her party, Edward recalled Gaveston, and made him his principal secretary of state/ placing all the affairs of the realm under his control. This unpopulai* minister was accused of leading the king int
. 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. fl I' i I. 480 ISABELLA OF FRANCE. In the year 1313, to the great displeasure of the queen and her party, Edward recalled Gaveston, and made him his principal secretary of state/ placing all the affairs of the realm under his control. This unpopulai* minister was accused of leading the king into a reckless coiu-se of dissipation, veiy offensive and injurious to the queen. Isabella, not being of a temper to bear her wrongs in silence, angrily remonstrated with Gaveston; on which he so far forgot the respect due to her high rank, as to make a contemptuous reply; and when she passionately complained to the king of the affront she had received from his insolent favourite, Edward treated it as a matter of little importance. It appears evident that, at this period, IsabeUa was only considered by him as a petulant child.'"^ Less perilous, however, would it have been to ofPer slights and provocations to a princess of more advanced age and mature judgment, for Isabella vented her indignant feel- ings by sending an eloquent detail of her wrongs to her father the king of France, to whom she wrote bitter complaints of Ler royal husband's coldness and neglect, describing herself " as the most wretched of wives, and accusing Gaveston of being the cause of aU her troubles, by ahenating king Edw ard's affection from her, and leading liim mto improper companj\" King Edward's letters, at the same period, to the father of his queen, are written in the most slavish style of prostration/ and he constantly apphes to him for counsel and assistance in his internal troubles, apparently unconscious that his " dearest lord and father," as he calls the treacherous Phili
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