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'A proclamation was issued, giving details of the plot to murder Richard, but apparently no copy now exists. Only one of the conspirators was beheaded, and that one, oddly enough, seems to have been an old friend of both Edward and Richard. Lord Hastings.'
'Yes, according to the sainted More he was rushed down to the courtyard and beheaded on the nearest log.'
'Rushed nothing,' said Carradine disgustedly. 'He was beheaded a week later. There's a contemporary letter about it that gives the date. Moreover, Richard couldn't have done it out of sheer vindictiveness, because he granted Hastings' forfeited estates to his widow, and restored the children's right of succession to them - which they had automatically lost.'
'No, the death of Hastings must have been inevitable,' said Grant, who was thumbing through More's Richard III. 'Even the sainted More says: "Undoubtedly the Protector loved him well, and was loth to have lost him". What happened to Stanley and to John Morton?'
'Stanley was pardoned - What are you groaning about?'
'Poor Richard. That was his death warrant.'
'Death warrant? How could pardoning Stanley be his death warrant?'
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