Murder of the Duke of Suffolk Finish:Rolled View of the South Bank

View of the South Bank between Blackfriars and Waterloo showing the Oxo Tower

by Ernst Haeckel (Berlin

frustrated that Mime has not been able to make the blade

and figures walking alongside the river in the foreground

Murder of the Duke of Suffolk Finish:Rolled View of the South BankMurder of the Duke of Suffolk, 1450 (1864). Banished by Henry VI (1421 1471) of England, William de la Pole (1396 1450), Duke of Suffolk, was intercepted in the Channel by the ship 'Nicholas of the Tower', possibly by order of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and murdered by the lowest of the crew with a rusty sword; he hacked off the duke's head in four or five strokes.