Excerpt from The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in Which He Lived, in Five Books, Vol. 6: To Which Is Prefixed, a History of the Revolutions of England From the Death of Edward the Confessor to the Birth of Henry the Second While a contrary wind, which lafied feverel days, detained them at Portfmouth, their bro thers; Richard and Geoffry, landed at South: ampton, on Good P1iday, 1n the year eleven Hundred and {enemy-fix, and went the next day to the palace of Winchefter, where their Father was preparing to celebrate, with his no bles, the fiafler feftival. Young Henry, leav ing Portfmouth, came alfo thither, to meet them, and to attend the great council, in which foreign afifairs, particularly thofe relating to the te1r1tor1es they held in France, were the principal {ubjee't of deliberation, and fee'med to require his prefe'nce. 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.