they saluted, and took possession of young Edward of the Sanctuary.

From this moment to that of his death he was a prisoner. The last gleam of seeming life and liberty allowed him was at Hornsey, where he was entertained at a banquet, given in his honour by the City of London, and where, for the first time, his health was drunk in public, as King Edward V. Further, therefore, it is not my province to accompany him. How the brief life, commenced in captivity in the Sanctuary, ended by murder in the Tower, need not here be recapitulated.

I will only add a word of his brothers and sisters. Of these young Edward was most associated, after the establishment of his household, with his elder sister Elizabeth, whose love for him and his unhappy brother, the little Duke of York, is well known. The family of Edward IV. and Elizabeth Woodville consisted of ten children. Of this family three were boys, Edward, Richard of Shrewsbury (Duke of York), and George. The last named died in his infancy. Of the seven daughters, Elizabeth became the wife of Henry VII.; Mary died unmarried, in her twenty-sixth year. Cicely had a peculiar destiny; affianced to a King (of Scotland), the downfall of her father's house prevented the marriage; she subsequently espoused a lord-Viscount Willes-and on his death united herself with a Lincolnshire esquire, one Thomas Kyme. The period of her death is unknown, but it is said to have occurred in the Isle of Wight. Anne, the next daughter, was engaged to the Emperor Maximilian, but she was ultimately content to marry Thomas Lord Howard, who was allowed by Henry VII. to draw 1207. per annum for her diet.

She died before her husband, and left no children surviving. The next daughter, Katharine, like her sisters, was affianced to crowned princes, but subsequently married in a much lower degree, namely, to Lord William Courtney, afterwards Earl of Devon. Like her sisters, too, she was almost entirely supported by the court. She was left a widow, in 1511, when thirty-three years of age, and to keep off all suitors, she made a vow before the Bishop of London never to change her widowed condition. The youngest daughter of this remarkable family, Bridget, enjoyed perhaps the most enviable, certainly the most tranquil, fortune of them all. In early youth she took the veil at Dartford, her sister, the Queen, paying 137. 6s. 8d. per annum for her support in the nunnery, in which she remained till the period of her death, in the thirty-seventh year of her age.

CHAPTER XI.

EDWARD OF MIDDLEHAM (YORK).

BORN 1474. DIED 1484.

On the south bank of the Yore-that pleasant stream which runs like a line of light through Wensleydale, in Yorkshire-stands the neat and quiet little town of Middleham, once the capital of the Dale district. Above the town, frown the grim ruins of a castle, which was commenced by the Fitz-Randolphs, was completed by the Nevilles, and was destroyed, so far as it is now seen, by time and of course-Oliver Cromwell!

Middleham was the property of the Earl of Warwick, the father of the Lady Anne who was the first Princess of Wales who became a Queen-Consort, and who brought with her hand this castle and territory of Middleham to her second husband, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. There is a tradition-or supposition rather-that, in their childish days, Richard and Anne passed some time together under the old roof of the castle, whose masters were the "Peacocks of the North." That they met in their youth is well known, and that Richard, who was altogether a precocious individual, loved the little Lady Anne in his boyhood, and met with small return of affection, is also a portion of the Middleham legend.

We come to facts concerning this ill-matched pair, as soon as we have passed away from the bloody field of

Tewkesbury, where Gloucester made no secret of his purpose to marry the widow of the Prince of Wales, Edward of Westminster. She was under attainder, and Middleham is said to have been a forfeited estate, already conferred by the King, on Gloucester. But Richard, at all events, coveted the lady as well as the land; and the lady, having no heart for such a wooer, concealed herself in London, and even passed, in the disguise of a servant, for a menial in a citizen's family, the better to hide from her high-shouldered and cruel-minded suitor.

In her purpose she was abetted and aided by Gloucester's brother Clarence, who had married Anne's sister and great co-heiress, Isabella, and who was interested in Anne's remaining a widow, in order that her rich possessions might fall to his wife and himself, or to their children.

Notwithstanding this opposition and concealment, the young Duke of Gloucester overcame his brother, discovered the lady, and married her, consenting or otherwise, in the year 1473. He was then twenty-one years of age, his bride just two years younger. Their only child, Edward of Middleham, was born in the following year, in the castle so named, the residence of his parents. For nine years little is known of him; they included the best years of his father's life-for, during their course, the Duke of Gloucester recovered from the Scots that town and castle of Berwick which had been sold to them by the last Lancastrian King; and he had founded those religious and charitable establishments in and about Middleham, the relics of which, whether in ruins, or in alms yet available, have preserved a grateful memory of Richard in that part of Wensleydale.

About the castle precincts and the tranquil valley the little Lord Edward rode in cloth of green, a feather in his cap, and whip in hand, upon a northern pony. From the tranquil routine of such a life he was suddenly summoned with his mother, in 1483, to repair to London, where his father already held as King. Mother and child set out on a brilliant progress, the last in which Anne took part-the first and last in which the Prince had share. They slept in convent or castle by the way, offering alms at the nearest shrines, as they arrived and departed. Early in July they reached London, where they were lodged at Baynard's Castle, the house of Queen Elizabeth Woodville. On the first Sunday in the July of that year, Prince Edward was of the waterpageant which illustrated the passage of his parents from the last-named, residence to the Palace of the Tower. On that same day, he was proclaimed Prince of Wales; and on the evening of that day the "young Princes" in the Tower were removed from the state-apartments, which were occupied by the new heir and his royal parents. Edward of Middleham slept that night in the bed previously occupied by Edward of the Sanctuary. The latter, with little Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, slept for the first time in the bed wherein they were soon after murdered. Such were the changes of the royal family of that period.

The following day was that of the first coronation of Richard and Anne, a gorgeous spectacle, at which the Prince was present. Then ensued a trip to Windsor, and thither came, now that he was heir of England, the Spanish Ambassador, to propose a marriage between Edward of Middleham and the eldest daughter of