at the hearts
of the people were with him; and the parliament that he hastened to
summon confirmed by law the revolution achieved by a bloodless sword.
[Lingard, Hume, etc.]

Nor was there aught abroad which menaced disturbance to the peace at
home. Letters from the Countess of Warwick and Lady Anne announced their
triumphant entry at Paris, where Margaret of Anjou was received with
honours never before rendered but to a queen of France.

A solemn embassy, meanwhile, was preparing to proceed from Paris to
London to congratulate Henry, and establish a permanent treaty of peace
and commerce, [Rymer, xi., 682-690] while Charles of Burgundy himself
(the only ally left to Edward) supplicated for the continuance of
amicable relations with England, stating that they were formed with the
country, not with any special person who might wear the crown; [Hume,
Comines] and forbade his subjects by proclamation to join any enterprise
for the recovery of his throne which Edward might attempt.

The conduct of Warwick, whom the parliament had declared, conjointly
with Clarence, protector of the realm during the minority of the Prince
of Wales, was worthy of the triumph he had obtained. He exhibited now
a greater genius for government than he had yet displayed; for all
his passions were nerved to the utmost, to consummate his victory and
sharpen his faculties. He united mildness towards the defeated faction
with a firmness which repelled all attempt at insurrection. [Habington.]

In contrast to the splendour that surrounded his daughter Anne, all
accounts spoke of the humiliation to which Charles subjected the exiled
king; and in the Sanctuary, amidst homicides and felons, the wife of the
earl's defeated foe gave birth to a male child, baptized and christened
(says the chronicler) "as the son of a common man." For the Avenger and
his children were regal authority and gorgeous pomp, for the fugitive
and his offspring were the bread of the exile, or the refuge of the
outlaw.

But still the earl's prosperity was hollow, the statue of brass stood on
limbs of clay. The position of a man with the name of subject, but the
authority of king, was an unpopular anomaly in England. In the principal
trading-towns had been long growing up that animosity towards the
aristocracy of which Henry VII. availed himself to raise a despotism
(and which, even in our day, causes the main disputes of faction); but
the recent revolution was one in which the t