CHAPTER II

EXAMINATION OF THE CHARGES AGAINST RICHARD

Reckless profusion of abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Deformity. Statement of Rous and Morton . . . . . . . . . 185 The truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Object of the calumny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Tewkesbury. The truth told by all contemporaries . . . . 188-189 Fable by Fabyan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Polydore Virgil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Subsequent embellishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Silence of Morton and Rous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191-192 Henry VI. Insinuations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Warkworth and Fabyan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194-195 The Croyland Monk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Polydore Virgil contradicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 All unworthy of credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Evidence of the accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 {xvii} Evidence of a contemporary writer . . . . . . . . . . 198 The truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Marriage. Richard and Anne really attached . . . . . . . 200 Attack of Miss Strickland, a specimen of the sort of arguments used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Countess of Warwick. False statement of Rous . . . . . . 201 The truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Death of Clarence. Charge absolutely groundless . . . . . 202 Another specimen of argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 The truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204