Edward's principal friends took refuge in various religious houses.

The queen, her three daughters, and her mother, fled to the sanctuary at Westminster.

All these were left unmolested, nor was any step taken against the other adherents of the House of York.

Warwick was now virtually King of England.

The king, whose intellect had always been weak, was now almost an imbecile, and Margaret of Anjou was still detained in France.