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398 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
a certain friar in London told him that he had conjured up a spirit,
which assured him that his brother was still alive, and that Sir Ingram
Berenger brought him a letter from the Lord Zouche requesting his
assistance in the restoration of the late sovereign.
"On the morrow after the Feast of St. Gregory" he was arrested;
on Sunday, March i3th, he was arraigned, and condemned to die on the
morrow. "All that day," say the chroniclers, "the King was so beset by
" his mother and the Earl of March that it was impossible for him to
" make any effort to preserve his uncle from the cruel fate to which he
" had been so unjustly doomed." And such was the feeling of the people,
that the executioner himself stole secretly away, and the Earl of Kent
had to wait upon the scaffold at Winchester Castle gate from noon till
five in the evening, because no one could be induced to perform the
office. At length, a condemned felon from the Marshalsea obtained his
His body
pardon on the condition of decapitating the unfortunate prince.
was buried in the city, in the church of the Black Friars or Dominicans,
who, together with two of the other mendicant orders, were accused of
being accessory to the conspiracy, and with difficulty escaped punishment.
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