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The peers who had accused Glocester, Arundel, and Warwick, and who had received higher titles for that piece of service, were all of them degraded from their new dignities; even the practice of prosecuting appeals in parliament, which bore the air of a violent confederacy against an individual, rather than of a legal indictment, was wholly abolished, and trials were restored to the course of common law.* The natural effect of this conduct was, to render the people giddy with such rapid and perpetual changes, and to make them lose all notions of right and wrong in the measures of government.
The earl of Northumberland made a motion, in the house of peers, with regard to the unhappy prince whom they had deposed.

He asked them, what advice they would give the king for the future treatment of him; since Henry was resolved to spare his life.

They unanimously replied, that he should be imprisoned under a secure guard, in some secret place, and should be deprived of all commerce with any of his friends or partisans.
It was easy to foresee, that he would not long remain alive in the hands of such barbarous and sanguinary enemies.

Historians differ with regard to the manner in which he was murdered.

It was long the prevailing opinion, that Sir Piers Exton, and others of his guards, fell upon him in the Castle of Pomfret, where he was confined, and despatched him with their halberts.