that the Lancastrian cause was lost. Edward IV marched on Sandwich and captured thirteen ships with most of the Bastard's immediate followers. Thomas himself escaped to Southampton, where the King took him prisoner. The King was so thankful to the aldermen of London, that he knighted the mayor, the recorder and other aldermen including Sir William Hampton, the following year's Lord Mayor of London. Death He was then taken to Middleham Castle in Yorkshire, the principal seat of his Neville relatives, and beheaded on 22 September 1471. His head was set on London Bridge, 'looking into Kentward'. A brother is stated to have been a prisoner at the same time, but he managed to take sanctuary at Beverley. References Hammond, P.W. "The Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury". New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. "Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV, in England and the Finall Recouerye of His Kingdomes from Henry VI. A.D. M.CCCC.LXI". Published for the Camden Society, 1938. Kendall, Paul Murray. "Warwick the Kingmaker". New York: Norton and Company, 1958. The Plantagenet Encyclopedia edited by Elizabeth Hallam The Princes in the Tower by Elizabeth Jenkins. External links 15th-century births 1471 deaths 15th-century English people English sailors English soldiers Executed English people People executed under the Plantagenets by decapitation People executed under the Yorkists People of the Wars of the Roses