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. 1894 Excerpt: ... 'treason' was raised in the adjoining chamber; and Gloucester hastily rising, and going to the door, a body of armed men rushed in. A violent scuffle ensued; one of them, with a pollaxe, gave the Lord Stanley a serious wound on the head. Hastings was seized. 'I arrest thee, traitor!' said the Duke of Gloucester. 'Me, ...
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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. 1894 Excerpt: ... 'treason' was raised in the adjoining chamber; and Gloucester hastily rising, and going to the door, a body of armed men rushed in. A violent scuffle ensued; one of them, with a pollaxe, gave the Lord Stanley a serious wound on the head. Hastings was seized. 'I arrest thee, traitor!' said the Duke of Gloucester. 'Me, my lord?' 'Yea, thee, ' replied the Duke, 'and I would have thee shrive; for, by St. Paul, I will not dine till I have seen thy head off!' And so was the Lord Hastings brought forth into tha green beside the chapel, within the Tower, and there, without time for confession or repentance, his head was stricken off upon a log of timber." At the same time Lord Stanley and two prelates, the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Ely, were arrested and imprisoned in the Tower, but they were subsequently released by Richard III on his coronation. The grandson of Lord Hastings was created Earl of Huntingdon in 1529, and married Anne Stafford, daughter of Henry, Duke of Buckingham, beheaded 2nd November, 1483, and sister of Edward, Duke of Buckingham (see above, p. 59), beheaded 1521. HENRY VI. Henry VI was conducted a prisoner to the Tower after the Yorkist victory in 1465, and remained there unmolested" till November, 1470, when Warwick the " King-maker" drev hiTti from his prison and recrowned him. On April 14th 1471, at Barnet, his partisans were defeated, and he was with great ignominy conducted through London to the Tower. In May, Edward IV returned triumphant from a second victory, that of Tewkesbury, and on the 26th Henry was found dead in his lodging, of "pare displeasure and melancholy," according to the Yorkist view; but according to others of poison. In Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part III (Act V, Scene 6), Gloucester...
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