. Historical portraits ... King. He was a curious product of that bloodstainedage, for not only was he a considerable scholar and author, theearliest patron of Caxton and the translator of the first book printedin England, but also, in the last twelve years of his life, a devoteeand an ascetic. He was incessantly going upon pilgrimages, andthrowing up secular offices to do so, and after his execution a hairshirt was found next to his skin. On the death of Edward IVhe was at Ludlow with his nephew Edward V, and at once startedfor London, intending to confront and probably to overthrow Richardof
. Historical portraits ... King. He was a curious product of that bloodstainedage, for not only was he a considerable scholar and author, theearliest patron of Caxton and the translator of the first book printedin England, but also, in the last twelve years of his life, a devoteeand an ascetic. He was incessantly going upon pilgrimages, andthrowing up secular offices to do so, and after his execution a hairshirt was found next to his skin. On the death of Edward IVhe was at Ludlow with his nephew Edward V, and at once startedfor London, intending to confront and probably to overthrow Richardof Gloucester, who had become Protector; but that astute murdererwas too quick for his rival, and, after an apparently friendly meet-ing, arrested the Earl and sent him to be beheaded at Pontefract,June 1483. III fe^ ^^^i^ 1 ANTONY WOODVILLE, SECOND EARL RIVERS Taken from the MS. of Dictes and Sayings of thePhilosopheis at Lambeth Palace (Detail enlarged) ^ ri vvwv 1 WILLIAM OF WAYNFLETEFrom the portrait at Magdalen College.
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