n throughthe fighting, that the King was absolute masterof England, and, for some long time, neitherthe lords nor the common people could resisthis will. In thisway he made himself far richer than anyEnglish king had been before, and. 91 CHAPTER V TO SHAKESPEARE AND ELIZABETH After Edward IV, who belonged to theHouse of York, the party of the White Rose,had defeated the army of the House of Lan-caster, the party of the Red Rose, at the battleof Towton, he took away from the great lordswho had belonged to the party of his enemiesall their land and all their money.
