The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 677)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the fiue and twentith day of the said moneth, the duke of Clarence accompanied with the earles of Warwike and Shrewesburie, the lord Strange, and other lords and gentlemen, some for feare, and some for loue, and some onelie to gaze at the waue|ring world, went to the Tower, and from thense brought king Henrie apparelled in a long gowne of blew veluet, through London to the church of saint Paule, the people on euerie side the streets reioising and crieng; God saue the king: as though ech thing had succéeded as they would haue had it: and when he had offered (as kings vse to doo) he was conueied to the bishops palace, where he kept his houshold like a king. [Thus was the principalitie posted ouer som|times to Henrie, sometimes to Edward; according to the swaie of the partie preuailing: ambition and disdaine still casting fagots on the fire, whereby the heat of hatred gathered the greater force to the con|sumption of the péeres and the destruction of the peo|ple. In the meane time, neither part could securelie possesse the regalitie, when they obteined it, which highmindednesse was in the end the ouerthrow of both principals and accessaries, according to the na|ture thereof noted in this distichon by the poet:

Fastus habet lites, offensis fastus abundat,

Fastus ad interitum praecipitare solet.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When king Henrie had thus readepted and eft|soons gotten his regall power and authoritie, he cal|led his high court of parlement to begin the six and twentith day of Nouember, at Westminster;A parlement. in the EEBO page image 678 which king Edward was adiudged a traitor to the countrie,K. Edward adiudged an vsurper. and an vsurper of the realme. His goods were confiscat and forfeited. The like sentence was giuen against all his partakers and freends. And be|sides this it was inacted, that such as for his sake were apprehended, and were either in captiuitie or at large vpon suerties, should be extremelie punished according to their demerits, amongst whome was the lord Tiptoft earle of Worcester lieutenant for king Edward in Ireland, exercising there more ex|treme crueltie than princelie pietie, and namelie on two infants being sonnes to the earle of Desmond.

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Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 725.

The earle Tipto [...]t be|headed.

[This earle of Worcester, being found in the top of an high thrée, in the forrest of Waibridge, in the countie of Huntington, was brought to London, and either for treason to him laid, or malice against him conceiued, was atteinted, and beheaded at the Tower hill, and after buried at the Blacke friers.] Moreouer, all statutes made by king Edward were clearlie reuoked, and the crownes of the realmes of England and France were by authoritie of the same parlement intailed to king Henrie the sixt,The crowne intailed. and to his heires male; and for default of such heires, to remaine to George duke of Clarence, & to his heires male: and further, the said duke was inabled to be next heire to his father Richard duke of Yorke, and to take from him all his landes and dignities, as though he had béene his eldest sonne at the time of his death. Iasper earle of Penbroke, and Iohn earle of Oxford, with diuerse other by king Edward at|teinted, were restored to their old names, possessi|ons, and ancient dignities.