History of the Reign of Henry VII

...weakness, he showed himself rather devoted to a party than mindful of royal dignity.

As for his bride Elizabeth, he sent letters to her, that she should repair to London as soon as possible, and there remain with the Queen Dowager, her mother. This she performed shortly after, accompanied by many of the nobility and ladies of higher rank. Meanwhile, the King proceeded toward London by easy journeys, the applause and acclamations of the people following him everywhere, which without doubt were sincere and in no way feigned; as was to be seen in this, that they were poured forth with such alacrity and force. For they received him as a Prince sent down from heaven, who might put an end to the long-standing discords between those two families; which, although in the times of Henry IV, Henry V, and for some years of Henry VI on the one part, and of Edward IV on the other, they had enjoyed lucid intervals and happy cessations, nevertheless they perpetually hung over the kingdom like stormy clouds, threatening new commotions and calamities. And just as by his victory, the knees of men were bent,