PART II
CHAPTER I
THE AUTHORITIES
The Plantagenet Dynasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [166] Character and position of the accusers . . . . . . . . . . [167] Extravagance of their caricature . . . . . . . . . . . . . [167] Writers in the pay of the Tudors . . . . . . . . . . . . . [168] The notorious pamphlet by Morton . . . . . . . . . . . . . [168-171] Bernard André . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [171] Polydore Virgil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [171-172] Rous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [173] Fabyan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [174] Warkworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [175] Continuators of the Croyland Chronicle . . . . . . . . . . [175-178] Official documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [179] Hall, Grafton, Holinshed, Stow, Buck . . . . . . . . . . . [179] Reaction. Modern authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [181] Miss Halsted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [182] Upholders of the Tudor stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [182-183]
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]
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]
CHAPTER III