Charles Dickens

Name: A Child's History of England — Chapter 15
Author: Charles Dickens

A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

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“A Child's History of England — Chapter 15”, published in 1900, is a work by Charles Dickens. It explores elements such as Barons, the Black Band and Hubert.

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ When the Smith (I wish I knew his name!) was brought, all dark and swarthy with the smoke of his forge, and panting with the speed he had made; and the Black Band, falling aside to show him the Prisoner, cried with a loud uproar, "Make the fetters heavy! make them strong!" the Smith dropped upon his knee—but not to the Black Band—and said, "This is the brave Earl Hubert de Burgh, who fought at Dover Castle, and destroyed the French fleet, and has done his country much good service. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ Then, the Barons began to quarrel among themselves; especially the proud Earl of Gloucester with the Earl of Leicester, who went abroad in disgust. Then, the people began to be dissatisfied with the Barons, because they did not do enough for them. The King's chances seemed so good again at length, that he took heart enough—or caught it from his brother—to tell the Committee of Government that he abolished them—as to his oath, never mind that, the Pope said!—and to seize all the money in the Mint, and to shut himself up in the Tower of London. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ But ten years is a long time to hold the favor of a King. This King, too, as he grew up, showed a strong resemblance to his father, in feebleness, inconsistency, and irresolution. The best that can be said of him is that he was not cruel. De Roches coming home again, after ten years, and being a novelty, the King began to favor him and to look coldly on Hubert. Wanting money besides, and having made Hubert rich, he began to dislike Hubert. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ The good-humor of the Parliament was not restored by this. They reproached the King with wasting the public money to make greedy foreigners rich, and were so stern with him, and so determined not to let him have more of it to waste if they could help it, that he was at his wits' end for some, and tried so shamelessly to get all he could from his subjects, by excuses and by force, that the people used to say the King was the sturdiest beggar in England. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ White-crossed accordingly, they rushed into the fight. They would have lost the day—the King having on his side all the foreigners in England: and from Scotland, John Comyn, John Baliol, and Robert Bruce, with all their men—but for the impatience of Prince Edward, who, in his hot desire to have vengeance on the people of London, threw the whole of his father's army into confusion. He was taken prisoner; so was the King; so was the King's brother the King of the Romans; and five thousand Englishmen were left dead upon the bloody grass. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ Now, the sun was setting, and they were all going slowly up a hill, the Prince's horse very fresh, and all the other horses very weary, when a strange rider mounted on a gray steed appeared at the top of the hill, and waved his hat. ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ You may kill me, if you like, but I will never make a chain for Earl Hubert de Burgh!"
The Black Band never blushed, or they might have blushed at this. They knocked the Smith about from one to another, and swore at him, and tied the Earl on horseback, undressed as he was, and carried him oft to the Tower of London. The Bishops, however, were so indignant at the violation of the Sanctuary of the Church, that the frightened King soon ordered the Black Band to take him back again; at the same time commanding the Sheriff of Essex to prevent his escaping out of Brentwood church. Well! ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ While he was thus engaged, word was brought to him that Lord Pembroke, with four hundred knights, two hundred and fifty men with cross-bows, and a stout force both of horse and foot, was marching towards him. "What care I?" said the French Count. "The Englishman is not so mad as to attack me and my great army in a walled town!" But the Englishman did it for all that, and did it—not so madly but so wisely, that he decoyed the great army into the narrow ill-paved lanes and by-ways of Lincoln, where its horse-soldiers could not ride in any strong body ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ The dead Usurper's eldest boy, Henry by name, was taken by the Earl of Pembroke, the Marshal of England, to the city of Gloucester, and there crowned in great haste when he was only ten years old. As the Crown itself had been lost with the King's treasure, in the raging water, and as there was no time to make another, they put a circle of plain gold upon his head instead. "We have been the enemies of this child's father," said Lord Pembroke, a good and true gentleman, to the few Lords who were present, "and he merited our ill-will ”

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Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England — Chapter 15 (1900)

“ Of this, and of his even publicly declaring that the Barons of England were inferior to those of France, the English Lords complained with such bitterness, that the King, finding them well supported by the clergy, became frightened for his throne, and sent away the Bishop and all his foreign associates. On his marriage, however, with Eleanor, a French lady, the daughter of the Count of Provence, he openly favored the foreigners again ”

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