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    18 MARGARET BEAUFORT.

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    movement made in his favor . She afterwards sent Hugh Conw . ay with letters and money for his _journeybidding him use all speed

    and come to England , with wise foresig , ht desiring him to land in _AjValeswhere he would find lenty of aid and stanch friends ;

    Henry , , as may be supposed , was p overjoyed . He communicated the whole plan to the Duke of Brittany , who of late had seemed

    favorably disposed towards him . The duke promised to help him , and faithfullkept his word . \ . * . \

    Meanwhile y , Henry's answer was no sooner known in England than it reached the ears of Richard , who sent for the Duke of

    Buckingham . But the latter returned for answer that he _^ owed no allegiance to such an innuman butcher of Ms own fiesh . and

    blood . " From this time preparations for war were made on both sides . Buckingham liad a good force of "Welshmen ; Dorset , the

    Queen ' s brother , was raising men in Yorkshire ; Guildford and-. Ramme were busy in Kent ; whilst the Courtnays labored in Corn wall

    and Devon . Buckingham was a doomed man . In attempting to cross tiie Severn he found it unfordable from the recent liea _^ y rains , and

    the Welshmen taking ife as an ill omen . deserted him . He was forced to hide himself at the house ; of a servant on whom ne had

    lavished much kindness . The price set by Richard on the duke ' s head induced this man to betray his benefactorand Buckingham

    , was conveyed to Richard at Salisbury . But that prince , no longer remembering his former services and friendship , refused to -hear

    or see himand ordered that he should be beheaded in the public market-lace , without any trial .

    and On five the p thousand 12 th of Britons October from , 1484 France , Henry ; but sailed adverse with winds , fort dispersed y ships

    the fleet that same evening , and Henry himself was driven upon the Cornish coast . He ' attempted to land , but an armed force

    All opposed this tim him e , it so was he matter returned of wonder and landed that the on Lord the Norman Stanley shores should ;

    escape suspicion since the Lady Margaret was laboring in her son ' s cause . But though he convinced Richard of his own loyalty , a bill of

    Stanley attainder pleaded was passed for her again with st the the King Countess , promising of Richmond 1 to watch . over Lord , her

    and prevent her communicating with her son . The chronicler relates that " she was kept in a secret place at homewithout having any

    servant or company . " The King also deprive , d her of her estates in favor of her husband , decreeing that they should descend to his

    heirs , or , in the event of his leaving no issue , revert to the crown . Margaret was now virtually a prisoner in her own h . ome , and her

    ailor was her husband . It must have been an unpleasant and painful position for both ; but her sweetjiess of character , and

    earnest piety , made her an example of patience and submission . There is not in this brief sketch to trace the yarious

    ... vicissitudes throug space h which . Henry of Richmond passed ere the day

    came when the Red Rose was to . triumph on Bosworth field . The

    18 Margaret Beaufort.

    18 _MARGARET BEAUFORT .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/18/