case that Earl had no child,
the right would come to the Earl of Cambridge's
wife, (sister to the same Edmund,) and to her
issue, as it afterwards did; and this is most
likely to be true, whatever hath been otherwise
reported."--Lel. Coll. i. 701.]

On the 21st of July a commission was appointed, consisting of the
Earl Marshal, two of the judges,[107] six lords, and Sir Thomas
Erpingham, to try the conspirators: and the sheriff of the county was
ordered to summon a jury, who assembled at Southampton on the 2nd of
August, and found as their verdict, that, on the 20th of July, the
Earl of Cambridge and Sir Thomas Grey had traitorously conspired to
collect a body of armed men, to conduct Edmund Earl of March to (p. 135)
the frontiers of Wales, and to proclaim him the rightful heir to
the crown, in case Richard II. were actually dead, against the
pretensions of the King, whom they intended to style "the Usurper of
England;" that they purposed to destroy the King and his brothers,
with other nobles of the land; and that Lord Scrope consented to the
said treasonable designs, and concealed them from the King.

[Footnote 107: To one of these, Robert Hull, the
payment of one hundred marks was ordered to be
made, February 7, 1418, for lately holding his
sessions in South Wales; and also for his trouble
and expenses in delivering the gaol at Southampton
of Richard Earl of Cambridge, Henry Lord Scrope,
and Thomas Grey, Knight, there for treason adjudged
and put to death.]

Lord Scrope denied having consented to the death of the King, or
having had any communication with the other conspirators on that
point; and he declared that he had communicated with them on the other
points solely to possess himself of a knowledge of their designs in
order to frustrate them. He then pleaded his peerage, and his right to
be tried by his peers.

Sentence of death in the usual manner was passed upon Grey; but the
King having, by a most rare instance of mercy in those days, remitted
that part of the sentence which directed him to be drawn on a hurdle
and hung, he was allowed to walk through the town to the Northgate,
and was there immediately beheaded. On Monday, August 5, the Duke of
Clarence presi