. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . , p. 3?0. EVIDENCE OF THE MURDER OF THE PRINCES. 18.» young man in tlie next reign to be the identical duke of York wlio hadescaped from hia unnatural uncle.* These pretensions, which so 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 anticipat
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . , p. 3?0. EVIDENCE OF THE MURDER OF THE PRINCES. 18.» young man in tlie next reign to be the identical duke of York wlio hadescaped from hia unnatural uncle.* These pretensions, which so 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 the general courseof the narrative, we must state what Henry VII. really did, in , eightyears after he took the crown in Boswortli field, to prove tlie allegedimposture of the pretended duke in establishing the fact of the murder of thetwo princes. Bacon, who in his History of the reign of Henry VII.,relates the career of the youth called Perkiu Warbeck with an absoluteconviction of the imposture, thus describes the course which Henry adopted to make it manifest to the world that the duke of Tork was indeed ^MsM. Anne, Queen of Richard III, murdered. He says, that of four persons supposed to be impkeated, onlytwo were alive, sir James Tyrrel and John Dighton ; that these two the kingcommitted to the Tower, and examined touching the manner of the deathof the two princes ; and that they agreed in a tale to this effect: ThatEichard having directed a warrant to Brackenbury, the lieutenant of theTower, to put them to death, was by him refused; that Eichard thenilirected a warrant to sir James Tyrrel to receive the jjeys of the Tower * So termed in a proclamation of Perkin Warbeck. 190 EVIDENCE OF THE MUKDER OF THE PRINCES. [14SS. 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 mtheir beds; that
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