gifts would not attain his purpose. We may be sure to see him employ all of them when the proper time for using them will have arrived.

It was in 1464, about three vears after the decisive battle of Towton, when King Edward concluded his marriage with Lady Grey, a lady older than himself, and mother of three children. He had just at that time dispatched the Earl of Warwick to France in order to negotiate with the French Court concerning a marriage with the princess Bona, and the match was nearly settled. So everybody was surprised when King Edward, all at once, married that comparatively obscure lady, and hardly any body, except the family of the lady, the Wydevilles, liked the match. It was especially his own mother, the proud Duchess of York, that was very much displeased, and tried to prevent it, but in vain. May be that both his brothers, and especially Richard, were also dis- pleased with the marriage, but contemporary writers do not mention anything of that kind. It is moreover pretty sure that, at that time, Richard was not at all at the court, but staying in the house of Warwick in order to be trained for a warrior, and we may suppose, too, that the heart of the boy, who was but twelve years old, was far from conceiving or nurturing such covetous designs upon his brother's crown. It is even to be presumed that, as long as his brother Edward lived, such a selfish thought never entered Richard's mind; at least there is not a single fact that gives us a right of doubting the sincerity of his fraternal affection to Edward. There was always the closest intimacy between Richard and Edward, and the harmony that existed between them was never troubled for a moment. Richard, from his first entrance into public life, always sided with his brother, he remained faithful to him when others, and even his brother George, forsook him, and went with him into banishment when he might have quietly remained in England. And Ed- ward rewarded Richard by the strongest proofs of his love and esteem. He knighted him not long after his return from Warwick castle(Apr. 1466), gave him soon afterwards a new proof of it by entrusting him with the commission to transfer the bones of his murdered father and brother from Pontefract to Fotheringay, as already stated, made him after a time commissioner of array in the county of Gloucester, afterwards of Devon, and appointed him(1470) warden of the northern marches besides bestowing upon him numerous estates.(Halsted, Richard III.)

Nobody was more vexed at the marriage of the king than the Earl of Warwick, who had just made an arrangement with Lewis of France for marrying Lady Bona to Edward IV. He felt so much offended by this faithless behaviour of his King that he, at once, left his party, and joined that of Queen Margaret. To make this alliance more intimate, his younger daughter Anne was betrothed to the Lancastrian prince of Wales, but it was stipulated by Margaret, that the marriage was only to take place after Warwick should have placed Henry VI. upon the English throne. Warwick succeeded in winning the Duke of Clarence over to his side, and gave him his elder daughter, Isabel, in marriage. They now tried to induce Richard, too, to forsake Edward, and to rise with them in revolt against him, but in vain. Richard remained faithful to his brother, and, we may be sure, from sincere affection. Shakespeare, however, makes him say aside: ‧1 stay not for love of Edward, but the crown“, but there is no ground whatever for such supposition of egotism, and we may as well believe Richard when, at the question of Edward:„Now brother Richard will you stand by us?“ he answers:"Ay, in despite of all that shall withstand you“; for when all seemed lost for Edward, and he was obliged to flee to the Continent, Richard fled with him(Oct. 1470). He was not so fickle a person as his brother Clarence who, from ambition 2