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MORE SANGUINARY TRIUMPHS.
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The provinces of Maine and Anjou were given by the king in return for Margaret. Henry continued to show more and more signs of fatty

JOAN OF ARC INDUCES THE KING TO BELIEVE THE TRUTH OF HER MISSION.

degeneration of the cerebrator, and Gloucester, who had opposed the marriage, was found dead in his prison bed, whither he had been sent at Margaret's request. The Duke of York, the queen's favorite, succeeded him, and Somerset,