Excerpt from Sir John Fortescue's Commendation of the Laws of England: The Translation Into English of "De Laudibus Legum Angliae" During that impious and unnatural Civil War between the Houses of York and Lancaster, which not long since raged in England, and by means whereof their Sovereign King Henry VI. With his Consort Queen Margaret, who was daughter of the King of jerusalem and Sicily, and their only 5011 Edward Prince of Wales, were obliged to quit the kingdom: and at last, the King, being taken prisoner by his subjects, suffered a very long and terrible imprisonment. But the Queen, with her son, being thus banished, made her abode in the dutchy of Berry, which at that time belonged to her father, the King of Jerusalem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."