(also noticed by Shakspeare, but not as killed), Sir John Cockayne,* Sir John Calverley, Sir John Massie, Sir Hugh Mortimer, Sir Thomas Wendesley. These names are found in Otterbourne.† The prince had said previously— "The spirits Of Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms." I know that it is said somewhere that the Scots, naturally taking little interest in the contest, did not put forth their strength; but I have no disposition whatever to deny to Mr. Campbell, that it was not until the field was lost that the Douglas fled. It is for dramatic effect that the liberation of Douglas is made the act of the Prince of Wales. The play ends with the disposition of force made by the king; Westmoreland was to march against Northumberland, and the king himself, with his eldest son, against Glendower. This is correct, except that the king himself also went northward. * Ancestor, I suppose, of the late Viscount Cullen. 119 HENRY IV.-PART II. THE Second Part of "Henry the Fourth" commences with a scene which was in my time familiar to play-goers, though not as part of this play; Colley Cibber adopted parts of it into his irreverent alteration of Shakspeare's "Richard the Third,” where the doubts and lamentations of Northumberland, on hearing the various accounts of the battle of Shrewsbury, are transferred to Henry the Sixth, and the battle of Tewksbury. One passage of this interesting scene is given to Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set According to Shakspeare, Northumberland, who had been crafty-sick,* while his heroic son was fighting, is now persuaded by his friends† to renew the rebellious war, and he is encouraged by the information, that "The gentle Archbishop of York is up With well-appointed powers." The epithet here applied to the warlike prelate might perhaps remind one of the way in which the "Gradus ad Parnassum" was sometimes used at school, when a boy, finding magnanimus among the epithets of dux, or timida among those of puella, would think himself justified in thus illustrating the names of his hero and heroine, though the one might be a coward and the other an Amazon. "The archbishop, coming forth among them clad in armour, encouraged, exhorted, and, by all means he could, pricked them forth to undertake the enterprize in hand, and manfully to continue in their begun purpose, promising forgiveness of sins to all them whose hap it was to die in the quarrel." ‡ But Shakspeare had nevertheless better grounds * Induction to the Second Part of "Henry the Fourth." + Principally Lord Bardolph William Phelip, who married the heiress of the ancient Bardolphs, and got the title. Banks, ii. 29. He was Lieutenant of Calais. Hol., iii. 36, from Wals., 373. À Thomas L. Bordolph, the last in the make line; attainted 1406, died of his wounds at Bramham Moor 1408. for his epithet, in the passage which Holinshed adds: 'Indeed the respect that men had to the archbishop caused them to like the better of the cause, since the gravity of his age, his integrity of life, and incomparable learning, with the reverend aspect of his amiable personage, moved all men to have him in no small estimation." This prelate was Richard Scrope, "who bore hard His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop," who had been put to death by King Henry.* But Northumberland did not at this time rise against the king. Shakspeare might have learned from his usual authorities that the earl, whether summoned or "of his own free will," came to the king; some say that Henry "gave him fair words," others that he committed him to safe custody; but all agree that Northumberland was quiet for a time; and in the parliament of 1404 he was restored to most of his dignities. No one of the *See p. 54; and Bosw., xvi. 229, xvii. 149. Sir H. Nicolas (Scrope and Grosvenor Roll ii. 59, 121, 135) says, that the archbishop was not the brother of Wiltshire, but was a Scrope of Masham. Shakspeare copies Hall; neither Walsingham, nor Hardyng, nor Holinshed, nor Stow, agrees with Hall. + Hol., 26, 27. It is not stated how he was deprived of Chroniclers describes what took place in parlia ment. On the 18th of February, the Earl of Northumberland came before the king and lords, and there, by his petition to the king, acknowledged to have acted against his allegiance, namely, for gathering of forces and giving liberties, for which he craved pardon; and the rather, for that on the king's letters he yielded himself, and came to the king at York, whereas he might have kept himself away. The king delivered this petition to the judges, to be by them considered; but the lords made protestation against it, and that the ordering thereof belonged to themselves. Accordingly they, as peers of parliament, to whom only such judgment belonged, in considering well the statute of the 25 Edw. III., touching treasons, and the statute of liveries made in this king's time,* adjudged the earl's crime to be no treason nor felony, but only a trespass finable to the king. For which judgment the said earl gave great thanks to the king and lords, and at his own request he was sworn to be a true liegeman to the king, to the prince, and to the heirs of his body begotten, and to every of the king's sons and to their issue succeeding to the crown of them. See also Hall, 32; and Stow, 329; Tyler, i. 181; Wals., 369; Hard., 362. * There were two, 1 Hen. IV. c. 7; and 2 Hen. IV. c. 21; which, for the maintenance of peace, restrained noblemen from giving liveries or badges to knights, esquires, or others. |