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A new unused book.

About the book >.>.> Henry VII came to Bristol in the spring of 1486 as part of the first great progress through his kingdom which he made after gaining the throne at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485. The whole progress is described by an anonymous chronicler under the title A Short and Brief Memory of the First Progresse of our Soveraigne King Henry VII. Following the meeting of Parliament and his marriage to Elizabeth of York in January 1486 Henry left London in March and rode through Waltham Cambridge Huntingdon and Stamford to Lincoln where he kept Holy Week and the feast of Easter. From there he went to Nottingham avoiding Newark because of an outbreak of plague and on to Doncaster and Pontefract where he was accompanied by an armed escort ‘In defencable array for that in that tyme ther were certeyne Rebells about Rypon’ and to York where he was received with great ceremony. At York the King turned southwards through the Midlands to Worcester from thence to Hereford and on to Gloucester where he was welcomed by the mayor and burgesses and stayed at the Benedictine abbey of St Peter. He left Glouces- ter for Bristol staying overnight at the Cistercian abbey of Kingswood and dining the next day with Sir Robert Poyntz sheriff of Gloucestershire at Iron Acton before riding on to Bristol. (LL)