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ity. Richard alone, mind you, without a colleague.'
'Yes, that is in character, at least. He must always have had complete faith in Richard. Both as a person and as an administrator. Did Richard come south with a young army too?'
'No. He came with six hundred gentlemen of the North, all in deep mourning. He arrived at Northampton on April the 29th, He had apparently expected to join up with the Ludlow crowd there; but that is report and you have only a historian's word for it. But the Ludlow procession ? Rivers and the young Prince - had gone on to Stony Stratford without waiting for him. The person who actually met him at Northampton was the Duke of Bucking-ham with three hundred men. Do you know Buckingham?''
'We have a nodding acquaintance. He was a friend of Edward's.'
'Yes. He arrived post haste from London.'
'With the news of what was going on.'
'It's a fair deduction. He wouldn't bring three hundred men just to express his condolences. Anyhow a Council was held there and then - he had all the material for a proper Council in his own train and Buckingham's, and Rivers and his three aides were arrested and sent to the North, while Richard went on with the young Prince to London. They arrived in
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