The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London: With Memoirs of Royal and Distinguished Persons, Deduced from Records, State-Papers, and Manuscripts, and from Other Original and Authentic Sources
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...return to London, and the oft-tried expedient of exposing his corpse to the public view of the people, are also circumstances which have been advanced to support the belief that this unhappy prince came to a cruel and untimely end. Yet on the other hand, it is worthy of remembrance, that the battle of Tewkesbury was so ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...return to London, and the oft-tried expedient of exposing his corpse to the public view of the people, are also circumstances which have been advanced to support the belief that this unhappy prince came to a cruel and untimely end. Yet on the other hand, it is worthy of remembrance, that the battle of Tewkesbury was so far back as the 4th of May, and, as the king's return to London was not till the twenty-first, it may be asked whether, if Henry's death had been meditated, it be not more probable that the design would have been executed by Edward's orders during his own absence from the capital? Such a course would have been less liable to fix the stain of murder on his name, and at no time could it have been more easily or more securely effected; as lord Rivers, the king's brother-in-law, had then the custody of the Tower, and, of course, the charge of all the prisoners: his immediate death too might have been an effectual check to the rising in the north; it would have damped the ardor of the earl of Pembroke, who was then raising forces in Wales; and would it not at once have defeated the object of Falconbridge, who was at the same time vigorously besieging the capital, in hopes of obtaining the captive monarch's freedom? It is certain, moreover, that Henry was of a most weakly constitution, and had long suffered under an ill state of health; and, therefore, when we reflect on his melancholy change of fortune; the entire ruin of his house; the slaughter of his friends at Barnet and at Tewkesbury; the murder of his only child, and the captivity of his queen; can any thing appear to us more natural, than that the baneful effects of grief should, by course of nature, have terminated his unhappy life? Indeed, we have already seen, that some coeval writers di...
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