The Life and Death of Richard the Third — Act 3, Scene 3: Pomfret Castle.

At Pomfret Castle, Ratcliffe brings Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan out to be executed. Rivers faces death calmly and declares that he dies for loyalty and duty, while Grey curses Richard’s followers as bloodsuckers and Vaughan warns that they will answer for this crime. The men speak of Pomfret as a place haunted by royal murder, remembering that Richard II was killed there and linking their own deaths to Queen Margaret’s curses. Rivers asks God to remember their innocence and to protect the prince and the rest of the family. Before they are taken away, he embraces Grey and Vaughan, and they all bid each other farewell.