Yorkists Sentence Examples

To the west on the borders of Shropshire is Blore Heath, the scene of a defeat of the Lancastrians by the Yorkists in 1459.

The Yorkists had many adherents in Ireland, and thither Lambert Simnel was taken by Symonds early in 1487; and, gaining the support of the earl of Kildare, the archbishop of Dublin, the lord chancellor and a powerful following, who were, or pretended to be, convinced that the boy was the earl of Warwick escaped from the Tower, Simnel was crowned as King Edward VI.

In the 14th century the castle was held by the Mortimers, from whom it passed to the Yorkists.

When France went over to the Yorkists, Kennedy, accepting an English pension, made a long truce between Scotland and England (October 1464).

Her fierce partisanship embittered her enemies, and the Yorkists did not hesitate to allege that her son was a bastard.

While Lord Bonville supported the queen, the house of Courtenay were staunch Yorkists, and the earl of Devon joined in the armed demonstration of Duke Richard in 1452.

Her partisans doubted his sincerity, while many of the Yorkists who had hitherto followed Warwick in blind admiration found it impossible to reconcile themselves to the new rgime.

The Yorkists courted the approval of public opinion by their careful avoidance of pillage and requisitions; and the Lancastrians, though less scrupulous, only once launched out into general raiding and devastation, during the advance of the queens army to St Albans in the early months of 1461.

All that can be said in favor of the Yorkists is that they restored a certain measure of national prosperity, and that their leaders had one redeeming virtue in their addiction to literature.

This promising scheme was to be supported by a rising of those Yorkists who rejected the usurpation of Richard III.,

This time it was successfully carried out, and the earl of Richmond landed at Milford Haven with many exiles, both Yorkists and Lancastrians, and 1000 mercenaries lent him by the princess regent of France.

He landed in Lancashire, and pushed forward, hoping to gather the English Yorkists to his aid.

Bamburgh was twice taken by the Yorkists in the Wars of the Roses and twice recovered by Queen Margaret.

During Richard III.'s short reign the earl of Kildare, head of the Irish Yorkists, was the strongest man in Ireland.

In vain did he get his dilatory friends, the English Yorkists, to cross the Channel; on the 29th of August 1475, at Picquigny, Louis XI.

He received a good deal of ecclesiastical preferment from the Lancastrian party, was present, if he did not fight on the losing side, at the battle of Towton in 1461, and was subsequently attainted by the victorious Yorkists.