tless prelate
turned away, with a muttered ejaculation of contempt.

"Clarence had not deserted," said he to himself, "unless he saw greater
profit with King Edward!" And then he began to commune with himself, and
to commune with his brother-prelate of Canterbury; and in the midst
of all this commune arrived Catesby, charged with messages to the
archbishop from Edward,--messages full of promise and affection on the
one hand, of menace and revenge upon the other. Brief: Warwick's cup of
bitterness had not yet been filled; that night the archbishop and the
mayor of London met, and the Tower was surrendered to Edward's friends.
The next day Edward and his army entered, amidst the shouts of the
populace; rode to St. Paul's, where the archbishop [Sharon Turner. It is
a comfort to think that this archbishop was, two years afterwards,
first robbed, and then imprisoned, by Edward IV.; nor did he recover
his liberty till a few weeks before his death, in 1476 (five years
subsequently to the battle of Barnet).] met him, leading Henry by the
hand, again a captive; thence Edward proceeded to Westminster Abbey,
and, fresh from his atrocious perjury at York, offered thanksgiving for
its success. The Sanctuary yielded up its royal fugitives, and, in joy
and in pomp, Edward led his wife and her new-born babe, with Jacquetta
and his elder children, to Baynard's Castle.

The next morning (the third day), true to his promise, Warwick marched
towards London with the mighty armament he had now collected. Treason
had done its worst,--the metropolis was surrendered, and King Henry in
the Tower.

"These things considered," says the Chronicler, "the earl saw that all
calculations of necessity were brought to this end,--that they must now
be committed to the hazard and chance of one battle." [Hall.] He halted,
therefore, at St. Alban's, to rest his troops; and marching thence
towards Barnet, pitched his tents on the upland ground, then called the
Heath or Chase of Gladsmoor, and waited the coming foe.

Nor did Edward linger long from that stern meeting. Entering London on
the 11th of April, he prepared to quit it on the 13th. Besides the force
he had brought with him, he had now recruits in his partisans from the
Sanctuaries and other hiding-places in the metropolis, while London
furnished him, from her high-spirited youths, a gallant troop of bow
and bill men, whom Alwyn had enlisted, and to whom Edward willingly
appointed, as captain, Alwyn