conciliation,
he had not mentioned Henry's name when he took arms against Edward;
and he rather endeavored to prevail by means of his own adherents, than
revive a party which he sincerely hated. But his present distresses and
the entreaties of Lewis made him hearken to terms of accommodation;
and Margaret being sent for from Angers, where she then resided, an
agreement was, from common interest, soon concluded between them. It was
stipulated, that Warwick should espouse the cause of Henry, and endeavor
to restore him to liberty, and to reestablish him on the throne; that
the administration of the government, during the minority of young
Edward, Henry's son, should be intrusted conjointly to the earl of
Warwick and the duke of Clarence; that Prince Edward should marry the
Lady Anne, second daughter of that nobleman; and that the crown, in case
of the failure of male issue in that prince, should descend to the duke
of Clarence, to the entire exclusion of King Edward and his posterity.
Never was confederacy, on all sides, less natural, or more evidently the
work of necessity: but Warwick hoped, that all former passions of the
Lancastrians might be lost in present political views; and that, at
worst, the independent power of his family, and the affections of the
people, would suffice to give him security, and enable him to exact the
full performance of all the conditions agreed on. The marriage of Prince
Edward with the Lady Anne was immediately celebrated in France.

Edward foresaw that it would be easy to dissolve an alliance composed
of such discordant parts. For this purpose, he sent over a lady of
great sagacity and address, who belonged to the train of the duchess of
Clarence, and who, under color of attending her mistress, was empowered
to negotiate with the duke, and to renew the connections of that
prince with his own family.[*] She represented to Clarence, that he had
unwarily, to his own ruin, become the instrument of Warwick's vengeance,
and had thrown himself entirely in the power of his most inveterate
enemies; that the mortal injuries which the one royal family had
suffered from the other, were now past all forgiveness, and no imaginary
union of interests could ever suffice to obliterate them; that even if
the leaders were willing to forget past offences, the animosity of their
adherents would prevent a sincere coalition of parties, and would,
in spite of all temporary and verbal agreements, preserve an eterna