Outlines of ancient and modern history, on a new plan . The Princes smothered in the lower. P. ] 97,. Burning of and his suite in front of the Kremlin. P. 290, ENGLAND. 19? ward, indignant at his answer, and insensible to pity, struck him onthe face with his gauntlet; and the dukes of Clarence and Glouces-ter, with others, taking the blow as a signal for further violence,hurried the prince into the next apartment, and there dispatchedhim with their daggers. It is said also, and generally believed, that Richard, duke ofGloucester, killed king Henry with his own hands. When Edwa


Outlines of ancient and modern history, on a new plan . The Princes smothered in the lower. P. ] 97,. Burning of and his suite in front of the Kremlin. P. 290, ENGLAND. 19? ward, indignant at his answer, and insensible to pity, struck him onthe face with his gauntlet; and the dukes of Clarence and Glouces-ter, with others, taking the blow as a signal for further violence,hurried the prince into the next apartment, and there dispatchedhim with their daggers. It is said also, and generally believed, that Richard, duke ofGloucester, killed king Henry with his own hands. When Edward was secured on the throne, his spirit sunkin indolence and pleasure. The energies of his reign seemto have terminated with the civil wars, unless we except hisacts of detestable tyranny. He put to death, on the mostfrivolous pretence, his brother Clarence; and preparing togratify his subjects, by a war with France, he died sud-denly, in the forty-second year of his age, poisoned, as wassuspected, by his brother Richard, duke of Gloucester. § The only favour which the king granted his brother,


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