**** Leland's Collect, vol. ii. p. 505.

When this princess received intelligence of her husband's captivity, and
of the defeat and death of the earl of Warwick, her courage which had
supported her under so many disastrous events, here quite left her; and
she immediately foresaw all the dismal consequences of this calamity.
At first she took sanctuary in the abbey of Beaulieu;[*] but being
encouraged by the appearance of Tudor, earl of Pembroke, and Courtney,
earl of Devonshire, of the Lords Wenlock and St. John, with other men of
rank, who exhorted her still to hope for success, she resumed her former
spirit, and determined to defend to the utmost the ruins of her fallen
fortunes. She advanced through the counties of Devon, Somerset, and
Glocester, increasing her army on each day's march; but was at last
overtaken by the rapid and expeditious Edward, at Tewkesbury, on the
banks of the Severn. The Lancastrians were here totally defeated: the
earl of Devonshire and Lord Wenlock were killed in the field: the duke
of Somerset, and about twenty other persons of distinction, having
taken shelter in a church, were surrounded, dragged out, and immediately
beheaded: about three thousand of their side fell in battle: and the
army was entirely dispersed.

Queen Margaret and her son were taken prisoners, and brought to the
king, who asked the prince, after an insulting manner, how he dared to
invade his dominions. The young prince, more mindful of his high birth
than of his present fortune, replied, that he came thither to claim his
just inheritance. The ungenerous Edward, insensible to pity, struck him
on the face with his gauntlet; and the dukes of Clarence and Glocester,
Lord Hastings, and Sir Thomas Gray, taking the blow as a signal for
further violence, hurried the prince into the next apartment, and there
despatched him with their daggers.[**] Margaret was thrown into the
Tower: King Henry expired in that confinement a few days after the
battle of Tewkesbury; but whether he died a natural or violent death is
uncertain. It is pretended, and was generally believed, that the duke
of Glocester killed him with his own hands:[***] but the universal odium
which that prince had incurred, inclined perhaps the nation to aggravate
his crimes without any sufficient authority.

* Hall, fol. 219. Habington, p. 451. Grafton, p. 706. Polyd.
Virg. p. 528.

** Hall, fol. 221. Habington, p. 453. Holingshed, p 688.