. Historical portraits ... igned for him the Tower as his residence; hethen summoned a Parliament by means of which he hoped to furtherhis designs: whether these were at first merely for the Protectorate orwhether they were for the Crown itself, it is impossible to say. Butwhen he had got into his hands the little Kings only brother,Richard, Duke of York, and sent him to keep his brother companyin the Tower, and when he had cleared the way by executing LordHastings, the Duke deferred the Parliament, trumped up a chargeof bastardy against the two boys, and, overawing the capital bybodies of his
. Historical portraits ... igned for him the Tower as his residence; hethen summoned a Parliament by means of which he hoped to furtherhis designs: whether these were at first merely for the Protectorate orwhether they were for the Crown itself, it is impossible to say. Butwhen he had got into his hands the little Kings only brother,Richard, Duke of York, and sent him to keep his brother companyin the Tower, and when he had cleared the way by executing LordHastings, the Duke deferred the Parliament, trumped up a chargeof bastardy against the two boys, and, overawing the capital bybodies of his own adherents, proceeded to claim the crown as KingRichard III. The two princes were shortly afterwards murdered inthe Tower, smothered, it has always been believed, by two assassinsin the pay of King Richard. Two skeletons of the stature of boysof thirteen and eleven were discovered at the foot of a staircase inthe White Tower in the reign of King Charles II, and this discoveryleft little doubt of the truth of the ,-2iV<<t/c It to <i«c^c tf -v^iivxi tM?lU\ tn^c« ^i-rttiM-bl C^ Aid tH-icVCi tU<. ^Jitnttt EDWARD V STANDING AT THE LEFT OF EDWARD IV From the MS. of Dictes and Sajings of the Philosophersat Lambeth Palace Face p. 22 23 RICHARD III (1452-1485) the youngest son of Richard, Duke of York, and Cecily Neville,was born at Fotheringhay and was only nine years old when thecrown fell to his eldest brother, Edward IV, who at his coronationcreated him Duke of Gloucester. During Edwards reign theyoung prince, in spite of being severely tempted by Warwick and hissecond brother, Clarence, remained steadily loyal. He probablyfirst saw service in 1469, when Edward was fighting against Clarenceand Warwick : he accompanied Edward into exile in 1470 andhelped him to recover the Crown in 1471. There is some evidencethat he murdered the young Prince Edward of Lancaster atTewkesbury, and much better evidence that he murdered Henry VIin the Tower—both of these bloo
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