ChapXVJI.

from the Conquest, to the Death of ft Mary 1,

T 47i* and Henry put into the Tower a-SjiJW gam. (6-)

To We s The Earl of Warwick being fain,l he Earl of three Days afterwards, at the Battle of£*** (d) Barnet, fighting for his new Master,ste n . obr* Edward was again set on the Throne.

i ' ea The Death of Warwick, tho’ it plac’dEdward on the Throne, did not, how-ever, put an End to the War. Marga-ret, Henry's Queen, arrived in Aprilfrom France and landed, with her Son ;at Wey month, from whence they went toBath. Her Friends resorting to her ip

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France. Numbers, she soon got a constderableArmy together; But Edward pursuingher, with a superiour Force, she in-trenched her Army in the Park of Tewks-bury. Edward, coming up, resolved toattack the Intrenchments immediately ;Hence ensued, on the fourth of May ,theBattle of Tewksbury, the last and deci-sive Battle in Favour of Edward. TheQueen’s Army was totally routed, she,herself, with Prince Edward, and thechief of her Adherents, either killed orntuf] Pr ince taken Prisoners, and the Prince killed,ered ’ after the Battle, in cool Blood. (<?) Inthe mean Time, the Earl of Kent, War-wick's natural Son, who espoused hisCause, on whichever Side of the Questi-on it was, did not lie still. Having gottogether a considerables!umber of Ships,he failed to Calais, where he took onBoard Part of the Garrison, which waswholly devoted to the Interest of theEarl his Father. With these Forces hereturned to the 'Thames , and making his

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Ships fail up the River to London, he 1471,marched thither in Person, (having con- The Earl ofsiderably encreased his Troops at Do- m akesr oef) with a Body of seventeen Thou- “on LondwCsand Men, little thinking the Citizens ln Favour 'ofwould have dared to withstand so con- Heni 7;siderable a Force. He was, neverthe^less, deceived, and they made so gal-lant a Resistance, as obliged him to re- Rut ^ ^treat with a great Loss of Men. He f ea tefendeavoured to secure himself by retir-ing to Sandwich j But being closelypursued by Edward, his Adherents for-sook him, and, on a Promise of Par-don, surrendered themselves and theirShips. The Earl himself surrendered The Lancwlikewise, and was not only pardoned, strians sur-but taken into Favour, and employed. render "

He enjoyed these Favours, however,but a short Time, Edward causing him The Earlsoon after to be beheaded. (/) Henry ieheadeclVI. died about the same Time, in the The ^ eathTower, not without a Suspicion of being 0 f Hen.vi,murdered, (g)

In the Year 1475. Edward resolved 1475.upon a War with France , and made con- Rapm.siderable Preparations for it, both ofLand and Sea Forces. Every Thing Frajncetbeing ready, the King embarked withhis Army, in five Hundred fiat bottom-ed Vessels at Sandwich, the latter End ofJune, or theBeginning of July, and pastfed over to Calais. {F) Upon his Arri-val there, he sent a Herald to the Kingof to demand the wholeKingdom,and, in Case of Refusal, to declare KingdomWar. This War came however to no-thing,

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0 c ) Philip de Commines fays, that theReadiness of the Citizens to re-a dm it Edwardproceeded from their Interest, on Account of theDebts he owed them, and from the Importunityof their Wives, whose Hearts he had won by hisGallantry and Gaiety.

(d) Mr. Secretary Burchett calls it the Battleof St. Alb ans.

(e) He was brought into King Edward’s Pre-sence by Sir Richard Crofts , upon Assurance gi-ven that no Violence should be offered his Per-fon : But upon his justifying his Conduct, and as-serting his Father's Right, the King struck himWith his Gantlet, upon which the Dukes of Cla-rence and. Gloucester, the Marquess of Dorset, andLord Hastings immediately murdered him withtheir Poniards.

if) Rapin relates this fame Action, with asmall Variation of Circumstances, of Thomas'Ne-ttill, natural Son to the Lord Falconbridge ; and,Eichard of t-he Lord Falconbridge himself, as anatural Son os the Earl of Kent. Habington,with the Notes to his History, lay • Thomas He-vil, K base Son of William Nevill, Earl ofKent, Bastard Son to the brave Lord Falcon-^ridge, commonly known by the Name of theBastard Falconbridge, having been employed by*he Earl of Warwick, during the late Combusti-

ons of the Kingdom, to hinder all Succours whichmight come from the Low Countries to King Ed-ward’s Aid, as soon as he understood the Earl'sDeath, set up for himself, and fell to trade inopen Piracy. Between Dover and Calis he rob-bed most, and had now got under his Commanda Navy great enough to work Mischief; &c. Ho- Holinp..linpead gives a very particular Account of thisAction, and of the Valour and Conduct of seve-ral Aldermen in the Defense of the City.

(g) The Body of King Henry VI. was found Chron. Croy-,dead in the Tower of London. May God spare land.and give Time of Repentance to him, who hathdared to lay sacrilegious Hands upon the Lord's Ed. Hall.Anointed, Istc. Richard, Duke of Gloucester , asthe constant Fame ran, murdered KmZ Henrywith a Dagger.

He (the Duke of Gloucester) flew, with his Sir Thomasown Hand, King Henry VI. being Prisoner in More,the Tower, as was constantly said, without Com,mandment or Knowledge of the King.

(Speaking of the Ignominy offered Richard III. Lord$ aeon'sCorps at Leicester) No Man thought it unwor- Reign ofthy him, who kad been the Executioner of King Henry VILHenry VJ. that innocent Prince, with his ownHand.

(k) The Notes to Habington fay, the Kinglanded at Calais, on the fourth of June,