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
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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