. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . ything worth. To add to theadventurers difficulties, the Flemings, suffering from an interdictionof commerce between England and Flanders, by which Henry triedto compel Philip of Burgundy to use his authority for expellingthe White Rose from the dominions of his grandmother, the DuchessDowager, began to murmur, and threaten the cause of their dis-tress, who, thus harassed on every side, rashly resolved to risk allon one bold cast, and invade England. But Henry had prepared*for such despe
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . ything worth. To add to theadventurers difficulties, the Flemings, suffering from an interdictionof commerce between England and Flanders, by which Henry triedto compel Philip of Burgundy to use his authority for expellingthe White Rose from the dominions of his grandmother, the DuchessDowager, began to murmur, and threaten the cause of their dis-tress, who, thus harassed on every side, rashly resolved to risk allon one bold cast, and invade England. But Henry had prepared*for such desperate attempts. A few hundred foreigners andEnglish exiles landed near Deal, in 1495, and tried to raise thecountry for the invader, who waited the result at sea, with sailsbent. A remnant only of these daring adherents were driven backto the sea-shore, after a sharp fight, and returned with their leader,under press of sail, to Flanders. One hundred and sixty-nine pri-soners taken in the struggle were driven to London, tied togetherlike a great team of cattle, and every man put to a miserable deaths B 2.
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