[CONTENTS.]
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Monk-monarch and his Misleaders | [17] |
| II. | The Duke of York and the King-maker | [27] |
| III. | The Captain of Kent | [35] |
| IV. | The Rival Dukes | [46] |
| V. | The King's Malady | [53] |
| VI. | The Battle of St. Albans | [60] |
| VII. | The Queen and the Yorkist Chiefs | [67] |
| VIII. | The City and the Court | [76] |
| IX. | A Yorkist Victory and a Lancastrian Revenge | [80] |
| X. | The Battle of Northampton | [88] |
| XI. | York's Claim to the Crown | [94] |
| XII. | The Queen's Flight and Return | [99] |
| XIII. | The Anjouite's Vengeance | [105] |
| XIV. | A Plantagenet and the Tudors | [118] |
| XV. | Before Towton | [125] |
| XVI. | Towton Field | [131] |
| XVII. | The Queen in Adversity | [145] |
| XVIII. | The Woodvilles | [160] |
| XIX. | The Lancastrians in Exile | [174] |
| XX. | Warwick and the Woodvilles | [190] |
| XXI. | Despotism, Discontent, and Disorder | [203] |
| XXII. | The Siege of Exeter | [218] |
| XXIII. | Louis the Crafty | [224] |
| XXIV. | "The Stout Earl" in Exile | [232] |
| XXV. | The Earl's Return and Edward's Flight | [244] |
| XXVI. | The Earl of Worcester | [253] |
| XXVII. | The Banished King | [262] |
| XXVIII. | Queen Margaret's Voyage | [276] |
| XXIX. | The Battle of Barnet | [282] |
| XXX. | Before Tewkesbury | [299] |
| XXXI. | The Field of Tewkesbury | [312] |
| XXXII. | The Victor and the Vanquished | [325] |
| XXXIII. | Warwick's Vice-admiral | [337] |
| XXXIV. | Escape of the Tudors | [347] |
| XXXV. | Adventures of John De Vere | [353] |
| XXXVI. | A Duke in Rags | [362] |
| XXXVII. | Louis de Bruges at Windsor | [368] |
| XXXVIII. | The Treaty of Picquigny | [372] |
| XXXIX. | A Domestic Tragedy | [381] |
| XL. | King Edward's Death | [390] |
| XLI. | The Duke of Gloucester | [396] |
| XLII. | The Protector and the Protectorate | [399] |
| XLIII. | The Usurpation | [415] |
| XLIV. | Richard's Coronation | [420] |
| XLV. | The Princes in the Tower | [423] |
| XLVI. | A Mock King-maker | [427] |
| XLVII. | The Coming Man | [432] |
| XLVIII. | From Brittany to Bosworth | [439] |
| XLIX. | Richard before Bosworth | [444] |
| L. | Bosworth Field | [451] |
| LI. | After Bosworth | [465] |
| LII. | The Union of the Two Roses | [469] |
THE WARS OF THE ROSES.
[CHAPTER I.]
THE MONK-MONARCH AND HIS MISLEADERS.
On St. Nicholas's Day, in the year 1421, there was joy in the castle of Windsor and rejoicing in the city of London. On that day Katherine de Valois, youthful spouse of the fifth Henry, became mother of a prince destined to wear the crown of the Plantagenets; and courtiers vied with citizens in expressing gratification that a son had been born to the conqueror of Agincourt—an heir to the kingdoms of England and France.