The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . a papal dispensation, would have agreed in pronouncingthe princes illegitimate. On the 24th of June, two days after the Paul 8Cross Sermon, the duke of Buckin^rham harangued the citizens at theGuddhall, rehearsing the right and title whicli the protector had to be pre- Jlemoirs, book v. chap, xviii. f Wisdom, chap. iv. v. 3. Chronicle, p. 6G9. 186 ILLEGITIMACY OF EDWARDS CHILDREN DECLARED. [1483 ferred to the crown of England. Faljyan commends the sugared words of theduk
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . a papal dispensation, would have agreed in pronouncingthe princes illegitimate. On the 24th of June, two days after the Paul 8Cross Sermon, the duke of Buckin^rham harangued the citizens at theGuddhall, rehearsing the right and title whicli the protector had to be pre- Jlemoirs, book v. chap, xviii. f Wisdom, chap. iv. v. 3. Chronicle, p. 6G9. 186 ILLEGITIMACY OF EDWARDS CHILDREN DECLARED. [1483 ferred to the crown of England. Faljyan commends the sugared words of theduke, with a curious appreciation of his fluent oratory, which he says waa without any impediment of spitting. It is recorded by More that Buck-ingham, attended by the mayor of London and many others, went on the24th of June to Eichard, at Baynards Castle, and there solicited him tobecome their king. On the 25th the parliament had been summoned ; but asupersedeas had been received on the 21st of June, by the sheriffs of Torlc,*which renders it clear tliat the choice of Eichard to be king was not an open ^5^i/i I ^s~3///A. The HaU. Gmldhall. act of the legislature. There was some assembly on that 25th of Jime, for inthe next parliament a statute was passed, reciting that in a Bill presented bymany lords, spiritual and temporal, and others of the commons, in greatmultitude, the crown was claimed for Eichard, as his fathers heir, in con-sequence of a pre-contract of matrimony having been made by Edward dame Eleanor Butler, daughter of the earl of Shrewsbury, by which his • York Records. GLOUCESTER TAKES THE CROWN. 197 children became ilJegitimate, and that the line of the duke of Clarence hadbeen attainted. On the 26th of June Eichard duke of Gloucester sat downin the marble chair of Westminster Hall as king of England. There is aremarkable document, being instructions from Eichard to lord Mountjov, andothers, to expiain to the garrison of Calais, who had taken the o
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