Lives of the bachelor kings of England . dward V., the child of early promise, thepupil and relative of one of our early authors and patronsof literature, had not listened in vain to the dictes, and faites, the readings with which his temperate dinners * Sir T. More dates the liberation f Ibid. Brother to Queen Eliza- of lord Stanley from June 28, the day beth Woodvilles first husband,the northern army entered London. J Hall; sir T. More. EDWARD THE FIFTH. 165 had been seasoned at Ludlow. The royal boy anticipatedthe above historical aphorism. For he pathetically ob-served, in reply to the ann

---

Lives of the bachelor kings of England . dward V., the child of early promise, thepupil and relative of one of our early authors and patronsof literature, had not listened in vain to the dictes, and faites, the readings with which his temperate dinners * Sir T. More dates the liberation f Ibid. Brother to Queen Eliza- of lord Stanley from June 28, the day beth Woodvilles first husband,the northern army entered London. J Hall; sir T. More. EDWARD THE FIFTH. 165 had been seasoned at Ludlow. The royal boy anticipatedthe above historical aphorism. For he pathetically ob-served, in reply to the announcement of the coronation ofRichard III., My uncle might take my crown if hewould leave us our lives.* The autograph of Edward V., from one of his privyseal documents, executed at the Tower, countersignedby his false protector, we present beneath. It is en-graved from the specimen exhibited to the public amongthe autographs of our sovereigns, with those calledchoice MSS., under glass frames in the British Museum. * Sir T. More ;

---

Size: 2389px × 1046px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1861