. 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. f ^ '1 ii • 11 80 MATILDA OF FLANDERS. i: I I; and to conciliate the favour of the queen-duchess, whose par- tial fondness for her eldest son was well known. The supphes thus obtained Robert improvidently lavished among his dissolute companions, both male and female. In consequence of this extr
. 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. f ^ '1 ii • 11 80 MATILDA OF FLANDERS. i: I I; and to conciliate the favour of the queen-duchess, whose par- tial fondness for her eldest son was well known. The supphes thus obtained Robert improvidently lavished among his dissolute companions, both male and female. In consequence of this extravagance, he was occasionally reduced to the greatest inconvenience. When under the pressm-e of those pecuniary embarrassments, which could not fail to expose him to the contempt of the foreign princes who espoused his quarrel against his father, he was wont to apply to his too indulgent mother, Matilda, by whom he was so passionately beloved that she coidd refuse him nothing; from her private coffers she secretly supphed him with large sums of silver and gold, and when these resources were exhausted by the increasing demands of her prodigal son, Matilda had the weakness to strip herself of her jewels and rich garments for the same purpose.* This system continued even when Robert had taken up arms against his father and sovereign. Roger de Beaimiont,—^that faithful minister whom WiUiam had, previous to his first embarkation on the memorable expedition from St. Vallery, appointed as the premier of Normandy, and who had ever since assisted his royal mis- tress, not only with his counsels in the administration of affairs of state, but even in the education of her children,— felt it his duty to inform his sovereign of the underhand pro- ceedings of Matilda m favour of her rebel son.* Wilham was in England when the startling inteUigence reached him of the unnatural rebeUion of his first-bom, and the treachery of his beloved consort, in whom he had ever reposed the most imbound
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