. 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. Â¥ II i -â If ;\ H ?.'â "' ~, â , ., ; 1 ( wm. 150 MATILDA OF SCOTLAND. been a measure of political expediency for her to remain with her splendid court at Westminster or London, endeariug herself daily more and more to the people by her works of princely charity and the pubUc benefits
. 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. Â¥ II i -â If ;\ H ?.'â "' ~, â , ., ; 1 ( wm. 150 MATILDA OF SCOTLAND. been a measure of political expediency for her to remain with her splendid court at Westminster or London, endeariug herself daily more and more to the people by her works of princely charity and the pubUc benefits which she woo constantly labouring to promote. Thus we see, on nccurate examination, that, contrary to the assertions of one or two paradoxical wi-itei-s, who have assumed that Matilda was not treated with the affection and respect that were her due in wedded life, she enjoyed a degree of power and influence in the state perfectly unknown to the Saxon queens. She was so nobly dowered, withal, that in after reigns the liighest demand ever made on the pai-t of a queen-consort was, that she should be endowed with a dower equal to that of Matilda of Scotland.' By close examination of the earliest authorities, we find, that the first parhaments held by the Anglo-Norman dynasty were the fruits of the virtuous influence of this excellent queen over the mind of her husband. But as the fact, whether parliaments were ever held before the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. has been a point of great contest among modem historians, we take leave to quote the following lines from Robert of Gloucester in support of the assertion,âfirst, that parliaments were held; and next, that they were held througli the influence of Matilda :- " When his daughter was ten years old, to council there he drew, On a Whit-Sunday, a great parliament he name [held] At Westminster, nohle enow, that much i'o)\ ;^ Piers of Langtoft distinctly points out the classes of whom Matilda advised Henry
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