. The annals of England : an epitome of English history, from co[n]temporary writers, the rolls of Parliament, and other public records. havebsen received as archbishop immediately on his return, in Julyor August. 1 This and other great gifts bestowed by the new-made king onhis chief supporters occasioned the repeated remonstrances of theparliament, and statutes were passed to check the evil; thusit was enacted, that in any petition for grants of land, mentionshould be made of their value, [1 c. 6,] and of what the petitioner hadreceived before, [2 Hen. IV. c. 2,] but theserestrictions
. The annals of England : an epitome of English history, from co[n]temporary writers, the rolls of Parliament, and other public records. havebsen received as archbishop immediately on his return, in Julyor August. 1 This and other great gifts bestowed by the new-made king onhis chief supporters occasioned the repeated remonstrances of theparliament, and statutes were passed to check the evil; thusit was enacted, that in any petition for grants of land, mentionshould be made of their value, [1 c. 6,] and of what the petitioner hadreceived before, [2 Hen. IV. c. 2,] but theserestrictions were evidently disregarded, aswe meet with another statute soon afteragainst undue grants, [4 Hen IV. c. 4].The royal family was exempted from theoperation of these statutes, [6 Hen. 21. Henry created his eldest son princeof Wales ; of his other sons, one was madelord-lieutenant of Ireland, another con-stable of England, and all received largeportions of the estates which confiscationhad placed in his hands. u He was the son of Roger Mortimer,killed in Ireland in 1398, and presumptiveheir to the throne. His friends leagued. 13 Welsh marches; his brother and sister are imprisonedat Windsor. The kings of France and Scotland refuse to recogniseHenry as king, and prepare for an invasion of England,alleging the truces to have expired with the depositionof Richard. The threatened invasion never took place, but thesubjects of both crowns carried on for years a courseof depredations on the English coasts. In particular,Waleran, count of St. Polv, fitted out a strong fleet,which kept the southern and eastern shores in constantalarm, the Scots cruised in the northern seas, and theBretons and Spaniardsw ravaged the west. Henrysremonstrances being disregarded, for these freebooterswere not to be controlled by their feeble sovereigns1,private individuals and towns in England fitted outships, to retaliate on the enemy, and the narrow seassoon became one scene of piracy. The parliament
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