But it is more probable that he was starved to death in prison; and after all sustenance was denied him, he prolonged his unhappy life, it is said, for a fortnight, before he reached the end of his miseries.

This account is more consistent with the story, that his body was exposed in public, and that no marks of violence were observed upon it.

He died in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign.

He left no posterity, either legitimate or illegitimate.
All the writers who have transmitted to us the history of Richard, lived during the reigns of the Lancastrian princes, and candor requires, that we should not give entire credit to the reproaches which they have thrown upon his memory.

But after making all proper allowances, he still appears to have been a weak prince, and unfit for government, less for want of natural parts and capacity, than of solid judgment and a good education.