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Against Hen. 2. Hugh de Mortimer stufft his Ca∣stles of Glocester, Wigmore and Bridgnorth, with Rebellious Garrisons, for no other reason, but be∣cause he would not be under his Soveraigns Con∣troul, but he was soon tamed by the King, who suddenly reduced all his Castles to Obedience with very little labour or expence.
As for the Troubles which he had from his Son, after he had caused him to be Crowned King with himself, and given him a share of his Royal Sove∣raign
Authority, they might be called an unnatu∣ral and ingrateful Retaliation of Paternal Kindness, yet it could not be said to be a Rebellion of one Crowned Head against another. Nevertheless they who advanced the unjust Pret••ntions and Animosi∣ties of the Son were no way to be excused: They who blew the Coles of Dissention, and were the chief Incendiaries of the Divisions between the Crown'd Son, and Diademn'd Father; I mean those that were no less the Subjects of the one then the other were equal Traitors to both. Therefore did Providence, meaning only to Chastize the King, and not to deliver him up into his Enemies Hands, destroy those hopes that mov'd the Son to his un∣natural Attempts: So that the Earl of Leicester, one of the most violent Fire brands in that Disunion, one who was not contented to have affronted King Henry the Father, in the behalf of his young Lord and Master, but is Recorded to have laid his daring Hand upon His Sword to have struck the King, had he not been withheld, was encountred by several of the Loyal Nobility stedfast to the Old King, and with the loss of five Thousand of his Flemings, Himself and His Amazonian Countess taken Priso∣ners and carryed over ito Normandy, where at that time the Old King was, to be at his disposal.
And it is observable, that His Son Richard the First, though he had a deep Hand in these Conten∣tions against his Father, yet when he came to the Crown, he banished from his Familiarity, and hat∣ed all those who had forsaken his Father, and both retained and enriched those other, who had Loy∣ally
stood for the Elder King at all times, both against his Brother and Himself.