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October 1470 King Henry VI Restored is in 1469-1471 Wars of the Roses: Warwick Rebels.
On 6th October 1470 Henry VI (age 48) was re-adepted, ie restored, King of England.
Thomas Tresham (age 50) was released.
In November 1470 King Edward IV of England (age 28) was attainted. George York 1st Duke of Clarence (age 21) was awarded the Duchy of York.
Chronicle of Jean de Waurin [1400-1474]. Soon after King Edward departed from England, as you have heard, the Earl of Warwick and his company went to London where they took King Henry out of the tower [6th October 1470], and they had him crowned again in the Church of Saint Paul. He was acknowledged as king from the feast day of Saint Michael [29th of September 1470] of this year until the following Easter of 1471.
Tantost aprez le roy Edouard party dAngleterre, comme oy avez, le comte de Warewic et sa compaignie, tyrerent a Londres ou ilz misrent le roy Henry hors de la tour, si lallerent de rechief couronner en leglise de Saint Pol, et fut retenu pour roy depuis le jour de Saint Michiel de cest an jusques au jour de Pasques ensievant de quatre cens soixante onze.
Chronicle of Robert Fabyan [-1512]. [6th October 1470] And vpon Saterdaye than nexte folowynge, the sayde duke accompanyed with the erlys of Warwyke, of Shrowysbury, and the lord Stanley, rode vnto the Tower, and there with all honour and reuerence set out kynge Henry, and conueyed hym to Paulys, and there lodgyd hym in the bysshoppes palays, & so was than admytted and taken for kynge thorugh all the lande.
Collectanea by John Leland [1502-1552]. [6th October 1470] In the Monith of Octobre anno D. 1470. the Bisshop of Winchester, the Duke of Claraunce, and the Erle of Warwike took King Henry, that was right coursely kept, owte of the Toure of London, and bringging to Westminstre, restorid hym to his Kingly Dignite. Yet had the People much hatid afore King Henry for the Death of Humfrey Duke of Glocester, and the poyfening of John Holande Duke of Excester. But il Officers did this whom Innocent Henry did truste.
Croyland Chronicle 1470. [6th October 1470] In this manner did the lords before-mentioned gloriously triumph over the said king Edward, and that without the least slaughter or bloodshed; after which, they repaired to London with a degree of pomp befitting such great success. Taking king Henry the Sixth out of the Tower, where he had been so long detained in captivity, they once more placed him on the throne of the kingdom: and in the month of October, on the feast of the Translation of Saint Edward the King and Confessor [13th October 1470], after walking in solemn procession, had the crown publicly placed on his head. Now all laws were once more enacted in the name of this king Henry, and all letters patent, writs, mandates, chirographs, and instruments whatsoever were published with a twofold mode of annotation in reference to this king's government in this manner; "In the year from the beginning of the reign of king Henry the Sixth, forty eight, and in the first year of the recovery of his throne by the said king."
A Brief Latin Chronicle. And on the feast of Saint Faith the Virgin [6th October 1470], the Duke of Clarence, brother of King Edward, and the Earl of Warwick, along with other lords, led King Henry (age 48) from the Tower of London, clothed him in royal apparel, and escorted him through Cheapside to the bishop's palace in London. That year, the people of Kent, driven by their usual wickedness, rose up and plundered many in Southwark, London, and soon withdrew.
Et in festo Sancte Fidis Virginis dux Clarencie, frater Regis Edwardi, et comes de Warwic, cum ceteris dominis, regem Henricum de Turri London educentes, regali apparatu indutum per Chepam usque ad palacium episcopi London. perduxerunt. Hoc anno Cantigene consueta nequicia agitati insurgunt et multos in Sowthwerk, London. spoliant, et infra breve recesserunt.
Memoirs of Philip de Commines Book 3 Chapter VI. [6th October 1470]. The Earl of Warwick, immediately upon his arrival in London, went directly to the Tower (which is the castle), and released King Henry, whom long before he had committed thither himself. When he imprisoned him, he went before him, crying "Treason, treason, and behold the traitor!" but now he proclaimed him king, attended him to his palace at Westminster, and restored him to his royal prerogative, and all in the Duke of Clarence's presence, who was not at all pleased with the sight. Immediately he despatched 300 or 400 men over to Calais to overrun the Boulonnois, which party was well received by the Lord Wenlock, whom I mentioned before, and the affection which he had always borne to his master, the Earl of Warwick, was at that time very conspicuous. That very day on which the Duke of Burgundy received the news of King Edward's being in Holland, I was come from Calais, and found him at Boulogne, having heard nothing of that, or of King Edward's defeat. The first news the Duke of Burgundy heard of him was, that he was killed, and he was not at all concerned at it, for his affection was greater for the house of Lancaster than for York, and there were at that very time in his court the Dukes of Exeter and Somerset, and several others of King Henry's party; so that he thought by their means to be easily reconciled to that family; but he dreaded greatly the Earl of Warwick. Besides he knew not after what manner to carry himself to King Edward (whose sister he had married); and moreover they were brethren of the same orders, for the king wore the Golden Fleece, and the duke the Garter.
Warkworth's Chronicle. [6th October 1470]. Here is to knowe, that in the begynnynge of the moneth of Octobre, the yere of oure Lorde a TranslateMCCCCLXX, the Bisshoppe of Wynchestere, be the assent of the Duke of Clarence and the Earl of Warwick (age 41), went to the toure of Londone, where Kynge Herry was in presone by Kynge Edwardes commawndement, and there toke him from his kepers, whiche was not worschipfully arayed as a prince, and not so clenly kepte as schuld seme suche a Prynce; they hade hym oute, and newe arayed hym, and dyde to him grete reverens, and brought him to the palys of Westmynster, and so he was restorede to the crowne ageyne, and wrott in alle his lettres1, wryttes, and other recordes, the yere of his regne, Anno regni Regis Henrici Sexti quadragesimo nono, et readempcionis sue regie potestatis primo. Whereof alle his goode lovers were fulle gladde, and the more parte of peple. never the lattere, before that, at he was putt oute of his reame by Kynge Edwarde, alle England for the more partye hatyd hym, and were fulle gladde to have a chounge; and the cause was, the good Duke of Glouceter was put to dethe, and Jhon Holonde, Duke of Excetre (age 40), poysond, and that the Duke of Suffolke, the Lorde Say, Danyelle Trevyliane, and other myscheves pepie that were aboute the Kynge, were so covetouse towarde them selff, and dyde no force of the Kynges honour, ne of his wele, ne of the comone wele of the londe, where Kynge Herry trusted to them that they schuld do, and labour in tyme of innocence evere for the comone wele, whiche they dyde contrary to his wille; and also Fraunce, Normandy, Gasgoyne, and Guyane was lost in his tyme2. And these were the causes, withe other, that made the peple to gruge ageyns hym, and alle bycause of his fals lordes, and never of hym; and the comon peple seyde, yf they mighte have another Kynge, he schulde gett alle ageyne and amende alle manere of thynges that was amysse, and brynge the reame of Englond in grete prosperite and reste. never the lattere, whenne Kynge Edwarde iiijth regnede, the peple looked after alle the forseide prosperytes and peece, but it came not; but one batayle after another, and moche troble and grett losse of goodes amonge the comone peple; as fyrste, the xv. of alle there goodes, and thanne ane hole xv., at yett at every batell to come ferre oute there countreis at ther awne coste; and these and suche othere brought England ryght lowe, and many menne seyd that Kynge Edwarde hade myche blame for hurtynge marchandyse, for in his dayes they were not in other londes, nore withein England, take in suche reputacyone and credence as they were afore, &c.
Note 1. Wrott in alle his lettres. Cf. MS. Harl. 7, fol. 64, rº; Sir Harris Nicolas's Chronology of History, p. 304; Cart. Antiq. Mus. Brit. XXII. 42.
Note 2. Was lost in his tyme. This was a never-failing source of rebuke against Henry; so Ocland says:
'Quippe erat Henricus quintus, dux strenuus olim, Mortuus hinc damni gravior causa atque doloris."
Indeed, he was Henry the Fifth, once a valiant duke, Now dead, a cause of great loss and sorrow.
Anglorum prælia. Edit. 1582. Edward, in one of his earlier proclamations, says, "HE that directeth the hertes of all Princes 'hath' putte in oure remembraunce the lamentable state and rayne of this reaume of Englond, and the losse of th'obeissaunce of the reaume of Fraunce, and Duchies of Guyenne, and Normandie, and Anjou." Rot. Claus. 1 Edw. IV. m. 38, dorso.
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