The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . th, he, who was suspected of having destroyed his brotherssons, sustained himself the heaviest of human afflictions. His own son,Edward, the only child of his marriage with the daughter of Warwick, died at Middleham Castle. The unhappyparents were almost driven madby the But theking had too many enemies towatch, to sit down in hopelessgrief. He declared his nephew,John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln,his heir; and applied himselfto counteract the schemes ofRic
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . th, he, who was suspected of having destroyed his brotherssons, sustained himself the heaviest of human afflictions. His own son,Edward, the only child of his marriage with the daughter of Warwick, died at Middleham Castle. The unhappyparents were almost driven madby the But theking had too many enemies towatch, to sit down in hopelessgrief. He declared his nephew,John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln,his heir; and applied himselfto counteract the schemes ofRichmond, by negotiating withthe duke of Britanny to deliverhim up. But Richmond wasin many respects his inteUectua-equal; and he had secret friendsin the English court as usefulas the spies whom Richard em-ployed to watch the motions ofhis rival. He suddenly fled fromVannes with a few servants, andsucceeded in entering Erance,where he claimed the protectionof Charles VIII. The earl ofOxford, one of the most constant of the Lancastrians, escaped from hisprison at Ham, and joined Richmond, to whom other adherents gradually. Female Costume in the time of Eichard III, * The document is given at length in Ellis, • Original Letters, 2nd Series, vol. i. p. Pene insanire. Croyland Chron. 1485.] di:ath of pjchard-s queen. 203 flocked. The king spent the year m active preparation for the po.^sibloinvasion. He kept his Christmas at Westminster with great splendour;and it was remarked that his niece Elizabeth was dressed in robesof the same fashion and colour as those of his queen. Scandal upon tliishint took up its courtly vocation; and the rumour went that as the queenwas in ill health he contemplated marriage with his niece. On the 16th ofMarch, 1485, the queen died. Here was a new occasion for fastening onemore horrible suspicion upon the evil reputation of llichard; and there-fore Polydore Yergil makes a doubt whether she were despatchedby sorrowfulness or poison. An eulogist of
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