[32] Was this Morton? Buck had heard so. [33] _Memorials of Henry VII._ ii. p. 251. [34] _Ibid._ i. p. 460. [35] Sandford, v. p. 404. [36] 'The latter part of the tale, which declares their interment by the priest and their removal by Richard's order, was evidently fabricated by Henry, to prevent the hazard of a search.'--Hutton's _Bosworth_, p. 169. [37] _Memorials of Henry VII._ i. p. 486. [38] Lord Welles was a half brother, on the mother's side, of Henry's mother. [39] Anne was eleven. In due time she was married to the son of the Earl of Surrey. Katherine was only seven. When she was twenty she became the wife of the Lancastrian Earl of Devonshire. Bridget, the youngest, was five. She was immured in a nunnery at Dartford, as soon as she was old enough. [40] _Memorials of Henry VII._ i. p. 617. [41] As late as 1488 there is a grant of five marks, at Easter, 'by way of reward,' to William Slater. If this was the jailer, he received hush money for two years after the perpetration of the murders. He is not heard of again. _Memorials of Henry VII._ ('Writs under the Privy Seal. Easter Term 3 Hen. VII.'), ii. p. 298. [42] _Memorials of Henry VII._ ii. p. 148. [43] This appears from general pardons having been granted to the former Constable, to the Chaplain, and to twenty-four soldiers of the garrison of Guisnes on the same date, July 16. No doubt these pardons were on the occasion of the appointment of a new Constable, and the return of part of the garrison to England. [44] _Memorials of Henry VII._ ii. pp. 188, 251. [45] This is an ugly story. Dr. Richard Fox was originally an agent of Morton and other conspirators abroad. This discreditable work brought him to Paris early in 1485, where he became known to Henry Tudor. A man so employed could not have been a good priest. He came with Henry to England as his Secretary, and was of course well rewarded. He became Bishop of Winchester and Lord Privy Seal; and appears to have been munificent and diligent as a prelate. By his 'pulchris verbis' he treacherously drew Tyrrel into the clutches of Sir Thomas Lovell. This appears from a letter of the Earl of Suffolk to the Emperor Maximilian dated at Aix-la-Chapelle on May 12, 1502. So hurried were the proceedings against Tyrrel that he was actually beheaded six days before the date of Suffolk's letter announcing his treacherous capture. Bishop Fox has been much eulogised. But no one could be for years in the inner counsels of such a man as Henry VII. without being in sympathy with his ways, which certainly do not deserve eulogy. [46] _Leland's Coll._ v. p. 373. From an anonymous manuscript. _Letters of Richard III. and Henry VII._, B. P. i. Pref. p. 29. [47] Lord Herbert of Cherbury, _Life of Henry VIII._ p. 36. 'Our King executing what his father at his departure out of the world commanded, as Bellay hath it.' {281} CHAPTER VI MR. GAIRDNER'S RICHARD III