The earl of Warwick returned from France in the next year, 1470, and as he was a great favourite in the nation, the people resorted to him without ceasing, until his army amounted to 60,000 men. King Edward was in great perplexity how to act, and he hastened into the country to consult his friends. But while he was in Lincolnshire, news was brought him that the realm was in uproar, and that the people made fires, and sung songs, crying King Henry,—King Henry,-a Warwick,-a Warwick! and that proclamation of war was issued against him. This being the state of the nation, Edward was advised by his friends to fly over sea, and with all possible haste he passed the Washes, and came to Lynn in Norfolk, where he found an English ship ready to sail for Holland, and he went on ship-board, without his baggage, and without money to pay for his passage.

When king Edward fled, king Henry was brought out of the tower by the earl of Warwick, and was led through the streets of London in a large blue velvet gown, and the people cried, God save the King! King Edward was declared a traitor, and the earl of Warwick was made governor of the kingdom.

But Edward did not despair of recovering the crown in a short time, and he daily received invi

tations from England, to return with all speed. On the 11th March, 1471, Edward sailed from Flushing, in Zealand, with four large ships and fourteen other ships, having on board about 2000 able men of war, besides mariners, and he directed his course towards the coast of Norfolk. On the next day, the ships were in the road before Cromer; but he found upon inquiry that there would be no safety in landing in that part of the country, and he caused his ships to sail northwards. The same night a great storm arose, which continued till the 14th of that month, on which day," he arrived at the head of the Humber," where the ships were driven on shore in sundry places. The king with lord Hastings and others, to the number of five hundred men, being in one ship landed "within Humber on Holdernesse side, at a place called Ravenspurgh, even in the same place where Henry earle of Derbie, after called king Henry IV, landed."

Richard duke of Gloucester with 300 men, took land in another place, about four miles from the place where his brother king Edward landed. The earl Rivers with 200 men, "landed at a place called Pole, fourteen miles from the haven where the king came on land."

"The residue of his people landed some here, some there;" and on the 15th March, the tempest

having ceased, they drew " towards the king, who for the first night was lodged in a poor village, two miles from the place where he first set foot on land."

"Touching the folks of the country, there came few or none to him," but "they suffered him to pass, not seeking to annoie him." And afterwards when they thought he claimed only that which was his right, they began to like his cause, and six or seven thousand men who had been gathered in diverse places, chiefly under the command of a priest, and of a gentleman called Martine de la Mare,* on purpose to have stopt his passage, took occasion to assist him. He then marched forward till he came to Beverleie, which stood in his direct way to York. He sent to Kingston-upon-Hull, distant from thence six miles, but the inhabitants would not receive him.†

Shakspeare, in his play of the Third part of King Henry VI, gives the following language as that of king Edward IV, at the gates of York,

* Sir Martine de la Mare, died in the year 1494, and was buried at Barmston, in Holderness, where his monument may be seen.

+ Holinshed's Chronicle, Anno 1471.