The plain Englishman's historian, or, A compendious chronicle of England from its first being inhabited to this present year 1679 but more especially containing the chief remarques of all our Kings and Queens since the conquest, their lives and reigns, policies, wars, laws, successes, and troubles : with the most notable accidents, as dearths, tempests, monstrous births, and other prodigies that happened in each of their times respectively / by H.C.

CHAP. XVIII. King Edward the Fifth.

THis Prince was eleven Years old at his Fathers Death, but was never Crown∣ed; for being left to the Care of his Uncle the Crookback'd Duke of Glocester, and coming up towards London from Ludlow, where he then resided, the crafty Duke first made use of means to have the Guard at∣tending his Nephew to be dismist, and then seizes on the Earl Rivers, his Uncle by the Mothers side, and other Kindred, whom soon after he beheaded.

Having thus got the sole Custody of the King, the Queen-Mother fearing the worst, takes Sanctuary with her young Son the Duke of York, and Daughters; but to get him from her, he pretends it necessary he should accompany the King to make him merry, and after much resistance prevails

with the Queen to deliver him; where∣upon they are both lodged in the Tower, and soon after by some vile Instrument al∣leadged Bastardy against the Princes, and by the Duke of Buckingham the said Duke of Glocester is proposed at Guild-Hall as rightful Heir to the Crown, which he is solemnly intreated to accept, and after some hypocritical refusals, does take upon him, on the eighteenth of June 1483. two months and a few days after the Death of King Edward the fourth; the right Heir being kept with his Brother as Prisoners in the Tower, where shortly after they were cruelly murdered by one Miles Forrest, and James Dighton, Horse-keeper to Sir James Tyrrel. who stifled them with their Bed∣ding, nor was it known where they were burled, though 'tis thought part of their Bones were not long since found in a Wall in the Tower. This Sir James Tyrrel was afterwards beheaded for Treason, Forrest routed away peicemeal at St. Martins le Grand, and Dighton detested of all men dy∣ed miserably at Calice.