. The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales : with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects . EicbatH tbe ICHARD, among all the English monarchs,has been more than any other, the subjectof popular ballad and romance. He hadall the useless qualities of a legendary hero,being brave to rashness, of strength sur-passing that of common men, and as profusein giving as he was rapacious in opening of his reign was welcomed by the nation atlarge, and certainly it held out fair prospects, though it was farfrom realizing them in the end. Like Henry V., at a laterperiod, h
. The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales : with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects . EicbatH tbe ICHARD, among all the English monarchs,has been more than any other, the subjectof popular ballad and romance. He hadall the useless qualities of a legendary hero,being brave to rashness, of strength sur-passing that of common men, and as profusein giving as he was rapacious in opening of his reign was welcomed by the nation atlarge, and certainly it held out fair prospects, though it was farfrom realizing them in the end. Like Henry V., at a laterperiod, he dismissed his own councillors, who as they hadprompted his rebellion against his father, were probably not themost to be relied upon, and took for his advisers the very menwho had been faithful in their loyalty against him. Yet at thesame time he did not neglect to free his mother. Queen Eleanor,from the confinement in which she had been held bv the latemonarch. In consequence of the general feeling thus excitedin his favour, and by the stabiHty the throne had now acquired,he was crowned without opposition, a rather r
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