The Earl of Salisbury who had been taken prisoner was hurried to the block.
The head of Duke Richard, crowned in mockery with a diadem of paper, is said to have been impaled on the walls of York.

His second son, Lord Rutland, fell crying for mercy on his knees before Clifford.

But Clifford's father had been the first to fall in the battle of St.Albans which opened the struggle.

"As your father killed mine," cried the savage baron, while he plunged his dagger in the young noble's breast, "I will kill you!" The brutal deed was soon to be avenged.

Richard's eldest son, Edward, the Earl of March, was busy gathering a force on the Welsh border in support of his father at the moment when the Duke was defeated and slain.