| afterwards
| | king, m. to
| | Anne Nevill
| | (1483-1485)
--------------------------- | |
| | | | |
Elizabeth, m. EDWARD V., Richard, Edward, |
to Henry VII. murdered Duke of York, Earl of Edward,
1483 murdered 1483 Warwick, d. 1484
executed 1499]

14. =Fall of the Queen's Relations. 1483.=--The young king was at
Ludlow, and rode up towards London, guarded by Earl Rivers, his uncle
on his mother's side, and by his half-brother, Sir Richard Grey.
Another half-brother, the Marquis of Dorset, was lieutenant of the
Tower.[35] Gloucester had strong reasons for believing that the Greys
intended to keep the young king in their hands and, having him crowned
at once, so as to put an end to his own guardianship, to make
themselves masters of the kingdom. He therefore struck the first blow.
Accompanied by his friend and supporter, the Duke of Buckingham, he
overtook the cavalcade, and sent Rivers and Grey prisoners to
Pontefract. The queen-mother at once took refuge in the sanctuary at
Westminster, whence no one could remove her without violating the
privileges of the Church.

[Footnote 35: Genealogy of the Woodvilles and Greys:--

Richard, Earl Rivers
|
+--------------------------------+
| |
Anthony (1) Sir John Grey = Elizabeth Woodville = (2) EDWARD IV.
Woodville, | |
Earl Rivers, +----------+---------+ +-----+
executed | | |
1483 Thomas Grey, Sir Richard Grey, EDWARD V.,
Marquis of Dorset executed 1483 murdered 1483]

[Illustration: Large ship and boat of the fifteenth century. The
mainsail of the ship has the Beauchamp arms, and the streamer the bear
and ragged staff. From the 'Life of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of
Warwick,' by John Rous; drawn about 1485.]

15. =E