. The life and times of Margaret of Anjou, queen of England and France : and of her father René "the Good," king of Sicily, Naples, and Jerusalem ; with memoirs of the houses of Anjou . escapedthe effects of their resentment had they dared to pro-ceed against him, but they feared the opposition andhatred of the people, which had already often beenmanifested, and they knew the Duke was too popularto be unrevenged. Two other reasons also contributedto preserve him; first, a report that the Earl of March,the eldest son of the Duke of York, was advancing atthe head of a powerful army to effect his
. The life and times of Margaret of Anjou, queen of England and France : and of her father René "the Good," king of Sicily, Naples, and Jerusalem ; with memoirs of the houses of Anjou . escapedthe effects of their resentment had they dared to pro-ceed against him, but they feared the opposition andhatred of the people, which had already often beenmanifested, and they knew the Duke was too popularto be unrevenged. Two other reasons also contributedto preserve him; first, a report that the Earl of March,the eldest son of the Duke of York, was advancing atthe head of a powerful army to effect his release, andit seemed probable that the troops lately disbandedwould unite with them. In addition to this, the deputiesof Guienne had sought succours of the King, promisingto reduce that province to his authority. The forces,however, designed by King Henry for this war mustnecessarily be employed at home, in the event of sucha civil contest as was likely to result upon the punish-ment of the Duke of York, and thus would a fairopportunity be lost for the recovery of Guienne. * Hall; Holinshed ; Baker; Sandford ; Stow ; Pol. Vergil; Fabian ;Daniel; Rapin ; Hume ; Lingard ; CHURCH OF ST. MAURICE, ANGERS. (To face page 378, vol. ii. MAEGAEET OF ANJOU. 379 A treaty of peace had been lately signed between and Scotland, to which both kingdoms hadbeen inclined, through the rebellions of the Douglasfamily in the latter, besides the agitated state of theBorderers, and the dissensions amongst the Englishpeople. The ambassadors of the two kings met in thechurch of St. Nicholas, in Newcastle, on the 14th ofAugust, 1451, when the peace was concluded.* Queen Margaret, alarmed at the report of the ap-proach of the Earl of March towards London, in heranxiety to secure friends, visited Norwich and otherplaces, accompanied by Edmund of Hadham, andJasper of Hatfield, the Kings half-brothers. TheQueens familiarity and obliging address pleased thegentry, and indeed she well kn
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