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  2. In the 1830s, workmen draining a vault beneath the Bowyer Tower in the Tower of London claimed to discover a butt-shaped coffin containing the remains of a man, rumored to be the Duke of Clarence himself.

  3. The arrest and committal to the Tower of London of one of Clarence's retainers, an Oxford astronomer named John Stacey, led to his confession under torture that he had "imagined and compassed" the death of the king, and used the black arts to accomplish this.

  4. He is responsible for stabbing the deposed Henry VI in the Wakefield Tower (while, according to Shakespeare, the devout King prayed); ordering the execution of his brother George, Duke of Clarence in a butt of malmsey wine; and ordering the murder of his two nephews, Edward V and Richard.

  5. Clarence's son, Edward, Earl of Warwick, due to his closeness to the throne, was imprisoned in the Tower of London by Henry VII and was executed in 1499 on a trumped-up charge of treason, the unfortunate youth was beheaded after attempting an escape with the pretender Perkin Warbeck.

  6. Sep 18, 2023 · The princes were taken to the Tower of London by their uncle, the Lord Protector, in the belief that they would stay there until it was time for the young king’s coronation. But the coronation never occurred and the princes disappeared without trace. What happened to them? Where did they go?

  7. Dec 4, 2023 · In 1483, Edward V (aged 12) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (aged 9), disappeared from the Tower of London. For over 500 years, history has judged that the ‘ Princes in the Tower ‘ were murdered on the orders of their uncle Richard III.

  8. Feb 18, 2017 · AncientPages.com - On February 18, 1478, George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, who conspired against his brother, Edward IV, during the Wars of the Roses, was convicted of treason and executed in private at the Tower of London.