in. See Stowe. Polyd. Verg.
Elmham.]

[Footnote 3: Elmham.]

But he never seems for a day to have been drawn aside by his private
devotions from the full discharge of the practical duties of his new
station. On the Wednesday he issued summonses for a parliament to meet
within three weeks of Easter. On Friday the 7th of April, he was
conducted to the Tower by a large body of men of London, who (p. 005)
went on horseback to attend him. The next day he was accompanied back
to Westminster, with every demonstration of loyalty and devotedness to
his person, by a great concourse of lords and knights, many of whom he
had created on the preceding evening. On the following morning, being
Passion Sunday, April 9th,[4] he was crowned with much[5] magnificence
in Westminster Abbey.[6]

[Footnote 4: Not Palm Sunday, but the fifth Sunday
in Lent, was called Passion Sunday.]

[Footnote 5: "With mickle royalty."--Chron. Lond.]

[Footnote 6: Chroniclers record that the day of his
coronation was a day of storm and tempest, frost
and snow, and that various omens of ill portent
arose from the circumstance.]

One of the first acts of a sovereign in England at that time was to
re-appoint the judges who were in office at the demise of his
predecessor, or to constitute new ones in their stead. Among other
changes, we find Hankford appointed as Chief Justice in the room of
Gascoyne, at least within ten days of the King's accession. For any
observation which this fact may suggest, so contrary to those
histories which repeat tales instead of seeking for the truth in
ancient records, we must refer to the chapter in which we have already
examined the credibility of the alleged insult offered by Prince Henry
to a Judge on the bench of justice.[7]

[Footnote 7: Henry had excited feelings of
confidence and admiration in the minds of foreign
potentates, as well as in his subjects at home.
Among the embassies, with offers and pledges of
friendship and amity, which hastened to his court
on his accession, are numbered those of John of
Portugal, Robert Duke of Albany, Regent of
Scotland, John King of Castile, John Duke of