London and the Kingdom - Volume 3: A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
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London and the Kingdom - Volume 3: A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.
Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
London (England) -- History
Be it remembered that on the 1st day of October it was noised abroad
throughout the city that Edward the Fourth King of England had fled,
for which cause the Queen Elizabeth who had fortified the Tower of
London quitted the same Tower and fled to the sanctuary at Westminster
and sent the Abbot of Westminster to Richard Lee the Mayor and the
Aldermen to inform them on the Queen's behalf that the men of Kent
and many others from divers parts of England in great numbers were
purposing to enter the city and lay siege to the said Tower and the men
at arms whom the said Queen had left behind in the same Tower; that
the same Queen desired that the said Tower should be delivered into
the hands of the Mayor and Aldermen because the said Queen was afraid,
it was said, that unless the said Tower was so surrendered the said
Kentishmen and others would invade the said sanctuary of Westminster
to despoil and kill the said Queen. And be it remembered that the said
Tower was on the Wednesday next following delivered into the hands of
the Mayor and Aldermen and of Geoffrey Gate, knight & others of the
council of the lords Clarence and Warwick on condition that all who
were then within the said Tower should remain safe & secure with their
goods and be conducted in the city of London either to the Sanctuary
at Westminster or Saint Martin according as they might wish. And be it
remembered that the lord Henry the Sixth who on the said Wednesday and
for many years past had been confined in a certain cell (_in quodam
Argastulo_) within the said Tower, was conducted by the said mayor and
Aldermen to a certain chamber adorned with handsome furniture which the
said Queen Elizabeth had fitted up and in which, being _enceinte_, she
purposed being brought to bed. And be it remembered that the aforesaid
Mayor and Aldermen for the safe custody of the said Tower and the said
lord the King Henry the Sixth then living in the same placed in the
said Tower the persons underwritten, namely
[Here follows a list of names.]
And each of the said Commoners had with him in the same Tower 2 men at
arms to wait upon him.
And be it remembered that all the foregoing was executed by authority
of the common council assembled in the church of Saint Stephen in
Walbrok.
Also be it remembered that on the 5th day of October the Archbishop
of York entered the Tower of London with a large band of men at arms
and took command of the said Tower and relieved the said Aldermen and
Commoners of the custody of the same And be it remembered that on
Saturday the 6th day of October George Duke of Clarence and Richard
Earl of Warwick entered the City by Newgate about the third hour after
noon with a large army and rode through _le Chepe_ to the said Tower of
London and took away the lord the King Henry the Sixth and brought him
the same day before nightfall to the Bishop of London's palace.
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