IV
TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES
AS TO HENRY'S PERSONALITY AND
CHARACTER
IT is important to understand how those who were the contemporaries of King Henry VI, or who come immediately afterwards, regarded his personality. John Ross, the Warwickshire antiquary, who was a contemporary of King Henry and remembered him, as has been already pointed out, when a student at Oxford, thus writes about him:[1]
"King Henry VI as he grew in age increased also in virtue. He was most; devout to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary from his earliest years; but he was little given to the world and the things of the world; leaving those things always to the Council. He founded the new college of Cambridge and that of Eton near Windsor. Moreover, he increased the pos-
- ↑ Joannis Rossi, Hist. Regum Angliae, ed. Hearne, p. 210.
