Footnotes.
[A] There were no postal arrangements in those days, and all letters were sent by private, and generally by special messengers.
[B] Daily.
[D] In former years Prince Richard had acted as viceroy of the English possessions in France, under King Henry, and while there he had been engaged in wars with the King of France, and with the dauphin, his son.
[E] See engraving on page [148].
[F] It was in consequence of this use of the roses, as the badges of the two parties respectively, that the civil wars between these two great families are often called in history the Wars of the Roses.
[G] The gauntlet was a sort of iron glove, the fingers of which were made flexible by joints formed with scales sliding over each other.
[H] For a view of this castle, and the grounds pertaining to it, see page [180].
[I] There was a strange story in respect to the manner of Clarence's death, which was very current at the time, namely, that he was drowned by his brothers in a butt of Malmsey wine. But there is no evidence whatever that this story was true.
[J] For a view of this castle, see page [26].
[K] The room is now the college hall, so called, of Westminster school.
[L] For a view of this castle, see engraving on page [273].
[M] Called sometimes Pontefract.
[N] For view of this castle, see page [273].
[O] The husband with whom she had lived before she became acquainted with Edward was a wealthy goldsmith and jeweler.
[P] See [Frontispiece].
[Q] I say he determined; for, although some of Richard's defenders have denied that he was guilty of the crime which the almost unanimous voice of history charges upon him, the evidence leaves very little room to doubt that the dreadful tale is in all essential particulars entirely true.
[R] The Earl of Dorset, you will recollect, was Queen Elizabeth's son by her first marriage; he, consequently, had no claim to the crown.