rsons, among whom were the archbishop of Canterbury and the young earl
of Arundel, nephew to that prelate, landed at Ravenspur, in Yorkshire;
and was immediately joined by the earls of Northumberland and
Westmoreland, two of the most potent barons in England. He here took
a solemn oath, that he had no other purpose hi this invasion than to
recover the duchy of Lancaster, unjustly detained from him; and he
invited all his friends in England, and all lovers of their country, to
second him in this reasonable and moderate pretension. Every place was
in commotion: the malecontents in all quarters flew to arms: London
discovered the strongest symptoms of its disposition to mutiny and
rebellion: and Henry's army, increasing on every day's march, soon
amounted to the number of sixty thousand combatants.

The duke of York was left guardian of the realm; a place to which
his birth entitled him, but which both his slender abilities, and his
natural connections with the duke of Lancaster, rendered him utterly
incapable of filling in such a dangerous emergency. Such of the chief
nobility as were attached to the crown, and could either have seconded
the guardian's good intentions, or have overawed his infidelity, had
attended the king into Ireland; and the efforts of Richard's friends
were every where more feeble than those of his enemies. The duke of
York, however, appointed the rendezvous of his forces at St. Albans, and
soon assembled an army of forty thousand men; but found them entirely
destitute of zeal and attachment to the royal cause, and more inclined
to join the party of the rebels. He hearkened therefore very readily to
a message from Henry, who entreated him not to oppose a loyal and humble
supplicant in the recovery of his legal patrimony; and the guardian even
declared publicly that he would second his nephew in so reasonable a
request. His army embraced with acclamations the same measures; and the
duke of Lancaster, reenforced by them, was now entirely master of the
kingdom. He hastened to Bristol, into which some of the king's ministers
had thrown themselves; and soon obliging that place to surrender, he
yielded to the popular wishes, and without giving them a trial, ordered
the earl of Wiltshire, Sir John Bussy, and Sir Henry Green, whom he
there took prisoners, to be led to immediate execution.

The king, receiving intelligence of this invasion and insurrection,
hastened over from Ireland, and landed in Milford Hav