The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . a Excerpta, p. 380. 148S.] EVIDENCE OF THE MURDER OF THE PRINCES. 189 young man in the next reign to be the identical duke of York who hadescaped from his unnatural imcle.* These pretensions, which bo longdisturbed the tranquillity of Henry VII., would have been dissipated beyondall possibility of success, had that crafty king brought forward distinct andabsolute proof of the circumstances which preceded the disappearance ofEdward V. and his brother. Without unduly antic
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . a Excerpta, p. 380. 148S.] EVIDENCE OF THE MURDER OF THE PRINCES. 189 young man in the next reign to be the identical duke of York who hadescaped from his unnatural imcle.* These pretensions, which bo longdisturbed the tranquillity of Henry VII., would have been dissipated beyondall possibility of success, had that crafty king brought forward distinct andabsolute proof of the circumstances which preceded the disappearance ofEdward V. and his brother. Without unduly anticipating tlie general courseof the narrative, we must state what Henry VII. really did, in 1493, eightyears after he took the crown in Bosworth field, to prove the allegedimposture of the pretended duke in establishing the fact of the murder of thetw^o princes. Bacon, who in his History of the reign of Henry VII.,relates the career of the youth called Perkin AVarbeck with an absoluteconviction of the imposture, thus describes the course which Henry adoptedto make it manifest to the world that the duke of York was indeed. Anne, Queen of Richard III, murdered He says, that of four persons supposed to be iii.|iliealed, onlytw7were alive, sir Janes Tyrrel and John Bighton; that those two he :L. to ke ;n*^ -nnned touehin, je oMhe death ltd7aJn7SeU:f;tlt/ty^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ m 4. ? fi,^m tn death was by hmi refused; that iticliard iiicd Tower, to put them to deatn, ^^« > . , j f t,,^. jower directed a warrant to sir James Tyrrel to recenc ? So termed in a proclamation of Perkin Warbeck. 190 EVIDENCE OP THE MURDER OF THE PRINCES. [1483. for one night, for the kings special service ; that Tyrrel, with his two servants,Miles Forest and John Dighton, repaired to the Tower, and he stood at thestair-foot, whilst these villains executed the murder, by smothering them intheir beds; that Tyrrel saw their dead bodies, which were buried under thestairs; and that Bichard, t
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