defeated and ldlled at ]Barnet on April 14th. The ex-king was

imprisoned in the Tower; and ILu'g;trct, who, ahnost at the very hour when the battle of ]B:trnct xv;;s being fought, had ltmded at Weymouth, was on IIay 4th defeated and taken at Tcwkesbury, her son, Irince Edward, being afterwards disgq'acefully murdered in cold blood. 5Iargaret was ransomed by the King of France, but was not suffered to depart until she had formally renounced all her claims to the English throne.

Edward had regained his crown but not his navy, the greater prt of which, upon the death of Varwick, had fallen into the hands of the king-makcr's lieutenant, Thomas, an illegitimate son of Villi;un Neville, Earl of Kent. This adventurer, known as the Bastard of Fauconbcrg, went to Calais, embarked part of the 2,'rrison, and, anticipating that the capital would espouse the cause of Henry 'I., who was still in the Tower, sailed to the me, uth of the Thames, after having touched at Dover and reinforced himself there, and landed with seventeen thousand men. He was deceived. Far from joifing him, the citizens opposed him, in spite of the large body of troops at his disposal, and, closely pursued, he retired to Sandwich, where, upon a promise of pardon, he stu'rcndcrcd himself and his ships. lie was spared, and even employed, until, being detected in fresh intrigues, he was beheaded. - At about the time of the Bastard's desccitt, in 5Iay, 1471, the ex-king, /-Icm'y I., died in the Toner. It is difficult to resist the conclusion that Edward realised that so long as lienry lived, civil strife was almost inevitable; and that, directly or indirectly, he was responsible for his rival's death, although the circumstances of the tragedy have never been explained.

Freed at length from domestic troubles, and master of his kingdom, Edward detenined on a war with ]'rance, which hd so often assisted his enemies, and against which he had many old gTounds of quarrel. His preparations occupied him for some time, and not until about June, 1475, were they completed. By that time he had collected five hundred craft of various descriptions at andwich; and at the end of the month, or the beginning of Juls-, he crossed to Calais with a large army? ]Louis XI. and Charles, 1)uke of ]Burgundy, were at war, and Edward, in pursuance of his

}h.,lingshed, ii. 688; Habington, 453; Speed, 684. Hall, f. 33; Speed, 685; Stowe, 424.

P,,lyd. Vcrgil, xxiv.; Fab"an, 5C8; lraft-n, 71!; Coopcr's Chron. 267b.