OM, "THY DESTINY BE MINE, AMEN."

The Chronicles inform us, that two or three days after the entrance
of Warwick and Clarence,--namely, on the 6th of October,--those two
leaders, accompanied by the Lords Shrewsbury, Stanley, and a numerous
and noble train, visited the Tower in formal state, and escorted
the king, robed in blue velvet, the crown on his head, to public
thanksgivings at St. Paul's, and thence to the Bishop's Palace, [not to
the Palace at Westminster, as some historians, preferring the French to
the English authorities, have asserted,--that palace was out of repair]
where he continued chiefly to reside.

The proclamation that announced the change of dynasty was received with
apparent acquiescence through the length and breadth of the kingdom,
and the restoration of the Lancastrian line seemed yet the more firm and
solid by the magnanimous forbearance of Warwick and his councils. Not
one execution that could be termed the act of a private revenge stained
with blood the second reign of the peaceful Henry. One only head fell on
the scaffold,--that of the Earl of Worcester. [Lord Warwick himself did
not sit in judgment on Worcester. He was tried and condemned by Lord
Oxford. Though some old offences in his Irish government were alleged
against him, the cruelties which rendered him so odious were of recent
date. He had (as we before took occasion to relate) impaled twenty
persons after Warwick's flight into France. The "Warkworth Chronicle"
says, "He was ever afterwardes greatly behated among the people for this
disordynate dethe that he used, contrary to the laws of the lande."]
This solitary execution, which was regarded by all classes as a due
concession to justice, only yet more illustrated the general mildness of
the new rule.

It was in the earliest days of this sudden restoration that Alwyn found
the occasion to serve his friends in the Tower. Warwick was eager to
conciliate all the citizens, who, whether frankly or grudgingly, had
supported his cause; and, amongst these, he was soon informed of the
part taken in the Guildhall by the rising goldsmith. He sent for Alwyn
to his house in Warwick-lane, and after complimenting him on his advance
in life and repute, since Nicholas had waited on him with baubles for
his embassy to France, he offered him the special rank of goldsmith to
the king.

The wary, yet honest, trader paused a moment in some embarrassment
before he answered,--

"My good lord, you ar