CHAPTER XXII

THE QUARREL The great party hostile to Rochester received in November of that year 1612 a shattering blow in the comparatively sudden death of its most powerful, influential, and active member, the Prince of Wales. On the 5th of the month, whilst bonfires blazed and fireworks crackled and exploded in London streets to commemorate--as commanded by the King--his majesty's miraculous preservation from the gunpowder barrels of Guy Fawkes and his associates, Prince Henry lay dying in Saint James's Palace. Never had the …