constitutional method of opposing the measures of the Crown, the
refusal of the supplies for the current year. Henry's predecessors
were too rich to depend on the aid of their vassals: to resist
their will with any hope of success it was necessary to have
recourse to the sword. But his poverty compelled him annually to
solicit relief, and to purchase it by concessions to his
parliament.

61. The Earl of Gloucester also massacred the Jews in Canterbury; and
the Earl of Derby destroyed their houses at Worcester and
compelled them to receive baptism. As a justification, it was
pretended that they were attached to the King, had Greek fire in
their possession, kept false keys to the gates, and had made
subterraneous passages from their houses leading under the walls.

62. Grandfather of King Robert Bruce, of Scotland.

63. The military tenants were ordered under the penalty of felony to
bring into the field not only the force specified by their
tenures, but all the horsemen and infantry in their power: every
township was compelled to send eight, six, or four footmen well
armed with lances, bows and arrows, swords, crossbows, and
hatchets, who should serve forty days at the expense of the
township; and the cities and burghs received orders to furnish as
many horsemen and footmen as the sheriff might appoint. No excuse
was to be allowed on account of the shortness of the time, the
approach of the harvest, or any other private inconvenience.

64. It is amusing to compare the opposite writers of this period.
Wikes and the letter-writer in Westminster are royalists, and
severely censure the ambition and treason of Leicester, but, in
the estimation of the chroniclers of Dunstable and of Waverly, he
lived a saint and died a martyr.

65. By these we are to understand Northern and Southern China,
separated by the great Hoang-ho on the eastern, and by the
southern limits of Shen-si on the western side.

66. This conduct toward the professors of the several systems of faith
is perfectly consistent with the character of Kublai, in which
policy was the leading feature. It was his object to keep in good
humor all classes of his subjects, and especially those of the
capital or about the court, by indulging them in the liberty of
following unmolested their own religious tenets, and by flattering
each with t