r, into which he himself had been the chief
cause of throwing him, he proclaimed him king with great solemnity.
A parliament was summoned in the name of that prince, to meet at
Westminster, and as this assembly could pretend to no liberty while
surrounded by such enraged and insolent victors, governed by such an
impetuous spirit as Warwick, their votes were entirely dictated by the
ruling faction. The treaty with Margaret was here fully executed: Henry
was recognized as lawful king; but his incapacity for government being
avowed, the regency was intrusted to Warwick and Clarence till the
majority of Prince Edward; and in default of that prince's issue,
Clarence was declared successor to the crown. The usual business also
of reversals went on without opposition: every statute made during the
reign of Edward was repealed; that prince was declared to be a usurper;
he and his adherents were attainted; and in particular Richard, duke of
Glocester, his younger brother: all the attainders of the Lancastrians,
the dukes of Somerset and Exeter, the earls of Richmond, Pembroke,
Oxford, and Ormond, were reversed; and every one was restored who had
lost either honors or fortunes by his former adherence to the cause of
Henry.

The ruling party were more sparing in their executions than was usual
after any revolution during those violent times. The only victim of
distinction was John Tibetot, earl of Worcester. This accomplished
person, born in an age and nation where the nobility valued themselves
on ignorance as their privilege, and left learning to monks and
schoolmasters, for whom indeed the spurious erudition that prevailed was
best fitted, had been struck with the first rays of true science,
which began to penetrate from the south, and had been zealous, by his
exhortation and example, to propagate the love of letters among his
unpolished countrymen. It is pretended, that knowledge had not produced
on this nobleman himself the effect which naturally attends it, of
humanizing the temper and softening the heart;[*] and that he had
enraged the Lancastrians against him by the severities which he
exercised upon them during the prevalence of his own party.

* Hall, fol. 210. Stowe, p. 422.

He endeavored to conceal himself after the flight of Edward, but was
caught on the top of a tree in the forest of Weybridge, was conducted
to London, tried before the earl of Oxford, condemned, and executed. All
the other considerable Yorki