Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAP. I RICHARD'S CAREER AS DUKE OF GLOUCESTER UNTIL THE DEATH OF EDWARD IV
- CHAP. II ACTS OF RICHARD AS PROTECTOR
- CHAP. III TERMINATION OF THE PROTECTORSHIP
- CHAP. IV MURDER OF THE PRINCES AND REBELLION OF THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
- CHAP. V RICHARD'S GOVERNMENT, HIS PARLIAMENT AND HIS RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN POWERS
- CHAP. VI INVASION OF RICHMOND:—DEFEAT AND DEATH OF RICHARD
- THE STORY OF PERKIN WARBECK
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAP. III - TERMINATION OF THE PROTECTORSHIP
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAP. I RICHARD'S CAREER AS DUKE OF GLOUCESTER UNTIL THE DEATH OF EDWARD IV
- CHAP. II ACTS OF RICHARD AS PROTECTOR
- CHAP. III TERMINATION OF THE PROTECTORSHIP
- CHAP. IV MURDER OF THE PRINCES AND REBELLION OF THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
- CHAP. V RICHARD'S GOVERNMENT, HIS PARLIAMENT AND HIS RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN POWERS
- CHAP. VI INVASION OF RICHMOND:—DEFEAT AND DEATH OF RICHARD
- THE STORY OF PERKIN WARBECK
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The Duke of York delivered to Richard
The death of Hastings was scarcely calculated to remove those suspicions which had caused Queen Elizabeth to seek refuge in the sanctuary at Westminster. But there was now no Woodville party in the council. The queen's friends were either dead or imprisoned. Westminster was full of armed men, and the forces for which Richard had written to his friends at York would be in London before many days. Yet in all probability the protector carried his way by persuasion quite as much as by force, and he received active support from prelates like Cardinal Bourchier, whose position rendered them less apprehensive of personal violence than mere lay lords like Hastings. He was supported with a cordiality that seems altogether wonderful, when, at the meeting of the council on the following Monday, it was proposed that the young Duke of York should be sent for out of sanctuary to keep company with the king, his brother, in the Tower. It was unanimously resolved that the queen should be desired to deliver him up, and there was even some discussion, according to More, whether, in the event of her refusal, he should not be taken by force. The council apparently considered that there was no fear for his safety in the Tower, but that there was a danger of renewed intrigues and factions so long as he remained in sanctuary. In the end it was agreed by all the lay lords, and even by a good portion of the spiritual, that if force was necessary it should be employed; but it was determined that gentle means should be essayed in the first place.
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- History of the Life and Reign of Richard the ThirdTo which is Added the Story of Perkin Warbeck from Original Documents, pp. 76 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1898