item: #1 of 3 id: 17411 author: Walpole, Horace title: Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third date: None words: 35422 flesch: 64 summary: Richard duke of York, the father of Edward the Fourth and Richard the Third, was son of Richard earl of Cambridge, beheaded for treason; yet that duke of York held his father's attainder no bar to his succession. These are written on paper, and are in worse condition; but that of king Richard is uncommonly fair, accurate, and ample. keywords: account; age; bacon; brother; children; clarence; crown; death; doubt; duke; earl; edward; elizabeth; fourth; gloucester; henry; historians; history; king; king edward; king richard; lord; man; mother; murder; perkin; prince; queen; reign; richard; richard duke; second; sir; sir thomas; son; thomas; time; tirrel; truth; years; york cache: 17411.txt plain text: 17411.txt item: #2 of 3 id: 28561 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Richard III Makers of History date: None words: 57914 flesch: 69 summary: It happened that by some means or other Edward paid a visit one day to the Lady Jacquetta, at her manor, as he was passing through the country. King Richard the Third, known commonly in history as Richard the Usurper, was perhaps as bad a man as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever raised to the throne, or perhaps it should rather be said, as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever _made_. keywords: brother; castle; children; clarence; course; crown; death; duke; earl; edward; elizabeth; england; family; father; henry; king; king edward; king henry; king richard; london; margaret; marriage; men; mother; party; people; place; prince; prince richard; queen; richard; son; throne; time; tower; warwick; years; york; young cache: 28561.txt plain text: 28561.txt item: #3 of 3 id: 36451 author: Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir title: Richard III: His Life & Character, Reviewed in the Light of Recent Research date: None words: 106697 flesch: 76 summary: n._ Forest, Miles, in Henry VII.'s story of the murder of the princes, 260; said to have rotted away piecemeal, 261; really Keeper of the Wardrobe at Barnard Castle, 264; an old royal servant falsely accused, 265 Fortescue, Sir John, Chief Justice, 24, 59; conversations with Edward of Lancaster, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65; with Margaret, 67, 69; pardoned after Tewkesbury, 77; Fuller's praise of him, 119; on the condition of English labouring class, 123 Fortescues followed the Earl of Devon to Towton, 24 Fotheringhay Castle, birthplace of Richard III., 1, 3; its history, 1; description, Dukes of York resided at, 2; subsequent history, 2 _n._; funeral of the Duke of York, 39; monuments, 40 _n._ Fox, Dr. Richard, an agent of Morton, secretary to Henry Tudor, 149; made Bishop of Winchester, 149 _n._; decoyed Tyrrel into Henry's power, 273; notice of, 273 _n._ French Chancellor, assertion that the princes were murdered, 242, 243; proved to be false, 244 Fulford, Sir Baldwin, beheaded at York, 34 Fulford pardoned after Tewkesbury, 77 Fulfords followed the Earl of Devon to Towton, 24 Gainsborugh, 130 Gairdner, James, C.B., LL.D., reason for thinking Richard may have been a murderer at 19, 188 _n._; on the obit of Henry VI., 198 _n._; on the grant to Buckingham, 224 _n._; on the letter of Elizabeth to the Duke of Norfolk, 230 _n._; on the executions by Henry Tudor after Bosworth, 247; on the treatment of the Queen Dowager, 257; proved that the king's Attorney General was loyal to the last, 145 _n._; suggests that the death of Clarence was due to his knowledge of Edward's marriage contract, 95; his view of the government of Henry VII., 249; his view of the extent of Richard's guilt, 281, 282; his method stated in his preface, 282, 283; remarks on his views, 283, 284; his admissions, 285; on the deformity, 285; surprise that Rivers should make Richard supervisor of his will, 285; Richard's acts do not harmonise with the Tudor stories, 286; his ideas about the death of young Edward at Tewkesbury, 286-288; views respecting King Edward's treatment of prisoners after the battle, 289-290; views about the death of Henry VI., 290-294; acknowledges that Richard interceded for his brother Clarence, 294; reply to his remarks about Richard's supposed remorse, 295; has nothing to say against Richard's marriage, 295; he admits, assuming they were not tried, that the sentence of Rivers and his companions was not more severe than the law might authorise, 296; he thinks that Edward's precontract with Lady Eleanor Butler may be true, 296; yet he still believes in the slander of the Duchess of York, 297; his defence of the assertion that Richard murdered his nephews, 298-299 Galtres Forest, 34, 58 Gamble's Close, position of Lord Stanley at Bosworth, 152 Garter, Order of the, stall plate of Richard Duke of Gloucester, 38; Duke of Burgundy invested, 113; knights made by King Richard, 146 Gascoignes faithful to King Richard, 151 Gascons, trade in wine, 112 Gastons, a position on Tewkesbury battle field, 72 Gedding, Sir John, slain at Wakefield, 15 George, _see_ Clarence, Duke of Giles, Sir John, pardoned after Tewkesbury, 77 Gladmoor, _see_ Barnet Glastonbury, 70 Gloucester, 71, 128; King Richard at, 129; Buckingham at, 225 Gloucester, Humphrey Duke of, his treatment of Jacoba of Holland, 44 Gloucester, John of, illegitimate son of Richard III., 237 _n._; made away with by Henry VII., 255 _n._ Gloucester, Richard Duke of, _see_ Richard III. Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of, marriage with the Bohun co-heiress, 128 Goddestande, 237, _see_ The publications were {115} 'Pilgrimage of the Soul' 'Liber Festivalis,' 'Quatuor Sermones,' the 'Confessio Amantis' of Gower, the 'Golden Legend,' 'Caton,' 'Knight of the Tower,' 'Æsop,' 'Paris and Vienna,' 'Life of Charles the Great,' the 'Canterbury Tales' of Chaucer, 'Life of our Lady,' 'King Arthur,' by Sir T. Mallory, who finished his work in 1470, and the 'Order of Chivalry' translated by Caxton and dedicated to his redoubted Lord King Richard. keywords: = =; anne; battle; bishop; bosworth; brother; buckingham; castle; children; clarence; coronation; crown; date; day; death; duchess; duke; earl; edmund; edward; edward iv; elizabeth; england; evidence; fabyan; father; gairdner; george; gloucester; good; grey; hall; hastings; henry; henry tudor; henry vii; history; john; king edward; king henry; king richard; lady; law; left; letter; life; london; lord; man; march; margaret; marriage; married; men; morton; mother; murder; parliament; people; place; polydore; prince; queen; richard; richard duke; richard iii; rivers; robert; rous; second; sidenote; sir; sir john; sir richard; slain; son; stanley; story; tewkesbury; thomas; time; tower; towton; truth; tudor; tyrrel; vii; virgil; wakefield; warwick; wife; william; years; york; young cache: 36451.txt plain text: 36451.txt