2-653-451 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Richard orders the arrest of Hastings', 1864. Richard III (1452-1485), King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485, accused William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, (1431-1483) and others of having conspired against him with the Woodvilles. According to Thomas More, Hastings was taken out of the Council chambers and summarily executed in the courtyard. From A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485 by James E. Doyle. [Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London, 1864]