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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 edition. Excerpt: ... {seemed the friend of both. This is in part corroborated by an expression which fell from Edward, while lamenting, when top late, the death of his brother. Intercession having been made for a criminal, he exclaimed between sorrow and anger, u How many, and urgent, applications are ** made, to save a wretch who ought to l* die by the laws of his country, but not ** one mouth was opened to plead for a bro DEGREES * ther jn distress, '* While Edward fat unsecurely on the throne, Richard was his able supporter, but when he became established by the death of Warwick, and the reduction of the Lancastrian party, Richard entertained different views, and cast his own eye towards the throne, fomented divisions among the nobility, friends to Edward, induced them to, M 3 destroy destroy each other, that should the King's demise happen, during a minority, the crown might be left open for himself; but, as before observed, it left an opening for Henry, The deaths of Gray, Rivers, Vaughan, and Hastings, were murders of the blackest dye, and are justly chargeable tq Richard. His ambition was the sole cause, and Buckingham his wretched tool. 4 The seizure of the crown, to which ho had no right, was an unjust usurpation. He was not invited Jo rule, but boldly obtruded himself. Another charge is the death of Edward the Fifth, and his brother. That they were murdered, does not admit a doubt; wh DEGREESt else could become of them? from the last last intelligence, they were under Richard's care. It was no man's interest to destroy them but his. They were the only obstacles.left to thwart his ambition; and though they had no power, he plainly. foresaw it would arise with their years. If one or both had died a natural death, he would certainly have publishe
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On the morning of the 22nd August 1485, to the sound of thundering hooves, gunshot, the clash of steel and the cries of men in battle, Richard III, King of England, lost his life and the Platangenet line came to an end. But what do we really know of the battle which became known as the Battle of Bosworth Field? How do we separate fact from legend when our knowledge is based on sources which are meagre, garbled or partisan?