Henry VII

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It was at the urgent request of his mother, the
Countess of Richmond, that Henry was thus
conveyed abroad. She stayed in England. Edward IV
made pretty persistent efforts to induce the Duke
of Britanny to give up her son to him, urging
that he intended not to treat him as a prisoner,
but to marry him to one of his own daughters so
that at last Duke Francis delivered him up to an
English embassy, which carried him as far as St.
Malo, where they were about to have taken ship
for England. Henry believed that he was going to
his death, and, in the words of the old
chronicler, "for very pensiveness and inward
thought fell into a fervent and sore ague." But
Jean du Quelenec, Admiral of Britanny, an old and
faithful councillor of the duke, took alarm at
what seemed to him like a stain upon his master's
honour, and persuaded him at the last moment not
to allow it. The admiral then got the earl
conveyed into a sanctuary within the town away
from the English and the embassy were obliged to
return to England without their prize. All that
was conceded to them, in answer to their
remonstrances, was a promise that since matters
had taken this turn the earl should be safely
kept in sanctuary, or be again placed in
confinement. Lara E. Eakins 1995
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