Chapter V: Henry Tudor in the Dock

Description of Henry VII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
His lawless executions after Bosworth . . . . . . . . . . 247
Responsible for the lives of royal children . . . . . . . 248
Henry's character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Necessity to strengthen his position . . . . . . . . . . . 250
His Parliament of outlaws. Unjust attainders . . . . . . 251
Loyal men attainted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Silent about the late King's nephews. Were they missing? 253
If alive, Henry's marriage necessitated their deaths . . . 254
Henry's treatment of other victims in his way . . . . . . 255
The fate of the princes, if alive, was sealed by
the marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Imprisonment of the Queen Dowager . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Henry put forward a story, in Polydore Virgil . . . . . . 258
A more detailed story, published by Rastell and Grafton 260-263
Rewards alleged to have been given by Richard
to murderers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264, 265
Confession of Tyrrel and Dighton fabricated . . . . . . . 267
Genesis of these stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Some account of Sir James Tyrrel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Henry's grant to John Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Tyrrel taken into favour. His two pardons . . . . . . . . 269
Murder of the two Princes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Relations silenced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270-271
Hush money to 'Black Will' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Reward to Dighton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Rewards and employments for Tyrrel . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Treacherous arrest and hurried execution of Tyrrel . . . . 273
Dighton to reside at Calais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
The story put forward and generally accepted . . . . . . . 274
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Judicial murder of the Earl of Warwick . . . . . . . . . . 275
Henry's remorse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Elizabeth saw the cruel treatment of her mother and cousin
Her death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Henry's design to kill the Earl of Suffolk . . . . . . . . 277
His death. Successful as this world counts success . . . 278
Things unexplained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279, 280