[7] Morton. [8] Buck, p. 79. [9] Davies, York Records, May 14, 1190, p. 220. [10] 'A man of much fortitude, and exceeding the common sort.'--Polydore Virgil, p. 224. [11] In Macaulay's review of Gleig's _Life of Warren Hastings_. [12] Miss Strickland. [13] Mr. Gairdner gives the evidence. 'Each crime rests on slender testimony enough, though any one of them being admitted, lends greater credit to the others. From this point of view it is not at all improbable that Richard was a murderer at nineteen' (p. 13). Richard killed his nephews, consequently he assassinated a prisoner when he was nineteen. It thus having been shown that he was a murderer when he was nineteen, what more probable than that he killed his nephews? This method of arguing has been perfectly satisfactory to generations of historical students, and appears to be so still. [14] _Fleetwood Chron._ p. 30. This is the narrative of the recovery of his kingdom by Edward IV., in _Harl. MS._ no. 543, printed by the Camden Society. [15] The drawing is in the abridgment sent to Bruges, reproduced in the _Archæologia_, xxi. p. ii. [16] _Warkworth Chronicle_, Camden Society, p. 18. [17] The Croyland monk wrote: 'As well in the field as afterwards by the revengeful hands of certain persons, Prince Edward, Devon, Somerset,' &c.: that is Prince Edward and Devon on the field, Somerset by 'the revengeful hands': by which phrase he is pleased to refer to the Earl Marshal's Court which was a constitutional tribunal (_Chron. Croyland_, p. 555). 'Tum in campo tum postea ultricibus quorundam manibus, ipso Principe Edwardo unigenito Regis Henrici, victo Duce Somersetiæ, Comiteque Devoniæ ac aliis dominis omnibus et singulis memoratis' (p. 555). [18] Fabyan, p. 662. [19] Polydore Virgil, p. 336.