Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 175 and unholy alliance.

Now seriously, we have to ask when all this towing and frown with kings and things is

going to end. We can't England just make up her mind and stick with it. Well I hate to tell

you, it's going to be a while before that happens. So in the meantime let's recap. Last time,

at the Battle of Edgecutmore, Warwick's left tenants had destroyed Edward's army of

saviors. And within two days Edward's champion in Wales William Herbert had been convicted by Warwick

on no recognisable authority and executed, along with his brother. Next up George Neville had

chased down the king and taken him captive along with his closest friend and supporter William

Hastings. And the more reliable of Edward's brothers Richard O'Gloster. The brother that unlike

Clarence had remained unmoved by Warwick's attempts to recruit him. Warwick had two main

aims at this point. One was to force Edward to submit to his greater authority and place him once

again as the highest in the land. Not Edward's highest advisor, highest in the land. The man who

would tell the king what to do effectively for Warwick to rule through Edward. The second was to

get rid of his hated enemies. The clam that in Warwick's world view had put themselves between him

and his protégé, the man he'd named in his open letter. Now Herbert was already dead,

and now the hunt was on for the fugitives. Rivers, his son John Woodville, his brother Scales,

and for Stafford. In this second objective Warwick was brutally successful. Rivers and John Woodville

had fled towards Wales. Scales had fled into Norfolk while Stafford had headed for his

homelands in Somerset and Devon. Within weeks Rivers and John Woodville were discovered in Chebsto,

they were taken to Cannell with Castle and both beheaded. And so ends the checkered and rather colorful

life of Earl Rivers. No one could accuse him of having a stared home-boring life. Stafford

feared no better. He made it as far as Somerset when he was discovered. The locals took matters

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