The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ed. Soon after, the second sou ofEdward IV fell into his hands, and then the gates of theTower closed forever upon the two cliildren. Meanwhile,from the pulpit, and in the market-place, the gossipabout Edward IVs false marriage was repeated. Soon apetition came to Richard to assume tlie crown, and onJune 25, the day that Edward Vs Parliament Avas toluive met, there assembled a self-constituted body, whichassumed to speak for the clergy, nobles, and commons ofthe realm, and asked Richard to become king. After ashow of hesitation he accepted. On
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ed. Soon after, the second sou ofEdward IV fell into his hands, and then the gates of theTower closed forever upon the two cliildren. Meanwhile,from the pulpit, and in the market-place, the gossipabout Edward IVs false marriage was repeated. Soon apetition came to Richard to assume tlie crown, and onJune 25, the day that Edward Vs Parliament Avas toluive met, there assembled a self-constituted body, whichassumed to speak for the clergy, nobles, and commons ofthe realm, and asked Richard to become king. After ashow of hesitation he accepted. On that same day, in thenorth, the tragic side of these events was seen; thequeens brother, Anthony, Earl Rivers, the gallant knight,the patron of Caxton, the poet who spent his last hoursin writing a ballad that shows no fear of death and novain carpings at fortune, died upon the scallold at Ponte- A CENTURY OP CIVIL AND FOREIGN WAR 231 fract, and Lord Richard Grey, half brother of Edward V,and two lesser persons, perished at the hands of the same. Earl presenting his Book to Edward IV. The child at the kings left is Edward V. The figure at the earls right has been thought to V)e Caxton, the first English printer. Murder ofEdward V. executioner. On June 26, Richard III was publicly pro-claimed king, and Edward V ceased to rule even in kings are invariably centres of disaffection. Theyoung prince and his brother were a menaceto the usurper, and they died a month or twoafter his accession, murdered it was believed,though it was never known when or by whom. But in1674 workmen found the skeletons of two boys at the footof the staircase in the White Tower, and there is littledoubt that the grave had at last given up the secret ofthe guilty burial two hundred years earlier. Richard had secured the throne, but his usurpationand murders turned the nation against him. For many 232 THE BRITISH NATION months he called no Parliament. The Duke of Bucking-ham, who had -don
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