ce, and
the sympathy of the age was with him! So there stood the king; at his
right hand, Elizabeth, with her infant boy (the heir of England) in her
arms, the proud face of the duchess seen over the queen's shoulder. By
Elizabeth's side was the Duke of Gloucester, leaning on his sword, and
at the left of Edward, the perjured Clarence bowed his fair head to the
joyous throng! At the sight of the victorious king, of the lovely queen,
and, above all, of the young male heir, who promised length of days to
the line of York, the crowd burst forth with a hearty cry, "Long
live the king and the king's son!" Mechanically Elizabeth turned her
moistened eyes from Edward to Edward's brother, and suddenly, as with
a mother's prophetic instinct, clasped her infant closer to her bosom,
when she caught the glittering and fatal eye of Richard, Duke of
Gloucester (York's young hero of the day, Warwick's grim avenger in the
future), fixed upon that harmless life, destined to interpose a feeble
obstacle between the ambition of a ruthless intellect and the heritage
of the English throne!

NOTES.

I. The badge of the Bear and Ragged Staff was so celebrated in the
fifteenth century, that the following extract from a letter addressed
by Mr. Courthope, Rouge Croix, to the author, will no doubt interest
the reader, and the author is happy in the opportunity afforded of
expressing his acknowledgments for the courteous attention with which
Mr. Courthope has honoured his inquiries:--

"COLLEGE OF ARMS. As regards the badge of Richard Nevile, Earl of
Warwick,--namely, the Bear and Staff,--I agree with you, certainly, as
to the probability of his having sometimes used the whole badge, and
sometimes the Staff only, which accords precisely with the way in which
the Bear and Staff are set forth in the Rous Roll to the early earls
(Warwick) before the Conquest. We there find them figured with the Staff
upon their shields and the Bear at their feet, and the Staff alone is
introduced as a quartering upon their shields.

"The story of the origin of these badges is as follows:

"Arth, or Arthgal, is reputed to have been the first Earl of Warwick,
and being one of the knights of King Arthur's Round Table, it behooved
him to have a cognizance; and Arth or Narth signifying in British
the same as Ursus in Latin, he took the Bear for such cognizance. His
successor, Morvidus, Earl of Warwick, in single combat, overcame a
mighty giant (who had encounte