Seized on the realm, deposed the rightful king,
25 Sent his poor queen to France, from whence she came,
[♦] And him to Pomfret; where, as all you know,
[♦] Harmless Richard was murder’d traitorously.
[♦] War. Father, the duke hath told the truth;
Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown.
30 York. Which now they hold by force and not by right;
For Richard, the first son’s heir, being dead,
The issue of the next son should have reign’d.
Sal. But William of Hatfield died without an heir.