apprehensive that
the place would be too narrow to contain so many attendants, sent his
pupil forward by another road to Stony Stratford; and came himself to
Northampton, in order to apologize for this measure, and to pay his
respects to the duke of Glocester. He was received with the greatest
appearance of cordiality: he passed the evening an an amicable manner
with Glocester and Buckingham: he proceeded on the road with them next
day to join the king: but as he was entering Stony Stratford, he was
arrested by orders from the duke of Glocester:[*] Sir Richard Gray, one
of the queen's sons, was at the same time put under a guard, together
with Sir Thomas Vaughan, who possessed a considerable office in the
king's household; and all the prisoners were instantly conducted
to Pomfret. Glocester approached the young prince with the greatest
demonstrations of respect; and endeavored to satisfy him with regard
to the violence committed on his uncle and brother: but Edward, much
attached to these near relations, by whom he had been tenderly
educated, was not such a master of dissimulation as to conceal his
displeasure.[**]

The people, however, were extremely rejoiced at this revolution; and the
duke was received in London with the loudest acclamations: but the queen
no sooner received intelligence of her brother's imprisonment, than she
foresaw that Glocester's violence would not stop there, and that her
own ruin, if not that of all her children, was finally determined.
She therefore fled into the sanctuary of Westminster, attended by the
marquis of Dorset; and she carried thither the five princesses, together
with the duke of York.[***]

* Hist. Croyl. Cont. p. 564, 565.

** Sir Thomas More.

*** Hist. Croyl. Cont. p. 565.

She trusted that the ecclesiastical privileges, which had formerly,
during the total ruin of her husband and family, given her protection
against the fury of the Lancastrian faction, would not now be violated
by her brother-in-law, while her son was on the throne; and she resolved
to await there the return of better fortune. But Glocester, anxious to
have the duke of York in his power, proposed to take him by force
from the sanctuary; and he represented to the privy council both
the indignity put upon the government by the queen's ill-grounded
apprehensions, and the necessity of the young prince's appearance at
the ensuing coronation of his brother. It was further urged, that
ecclesi