The King's Daughter (Rose of York) by Worth Sandra

Author:Worth, Sandra [Worth, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2008-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

SOON AFTERWARD HENRY CALLED A COUNCIL AT Sheen and brought the real Warwick out of the Tower. Dear Edward was twelve years old now, never having known a day of liberty since Bosworth. Henry paraded him through the London streets to prove the falsehood of Lincoln’s claim, and ordered John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, to prepare for invasion. Then he left for a progress to secure the land, traveling quickly through Essex, Suffolk, and Norwich, and to Coventry with Morton. Along the way Morton read a papal bull of anathema and excommunication against the rebels, for which Henry had paid the pope a great sum of money. This had been yet another of Morton’s ideas, hatched in the solar as I played the harp and they conversed over a game of cards following my birthday banquet.

“What we need is a papal bull recognizing your right to the crown and cursing with bell, book, and candle all those who go against you.”

“Will the pope issue us such a bull?” Henry had inquired, laying down three knights.

“He will issue anything for a price,” Morton had replied, smiling as he presented three kings over them. “No matter how high the cost, it shall be worth paying. There can be no surer sign of God’s approval than the papal censure of all who threaten you,Your Grace.”

Henry commonly called Morton “a clever devil,” and it had occurred to me listening to them that truer words were never spoken. In Morton, the cloth was a disguise of the devil.

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