. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . iagewith Lady Elizabeth Woodville. Comiues again says, Tlie bishop havingdiacovercd this mystery to the duke of Gloucester, he gave his assistance to • Quoted by Turner, History, vol. ii!. p. 450, from Ilarl. MS. 433. 1483.] ALLEGED rRETIOUS MARRIAGP: OF EDWARD IV. ISi the execution of the barbarous designs of the duke. * If Eobert Stillington,the bishop of Bath and Wells, who had been chancellor in the time ofEdward IV., revealed this mystery to Gloucester after he h
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . iagewith Lady Elizabeth Woodville. Comiues again says, Tlie bishop havingdiacovercd this mystery to the duke of Gloucester, he gave his assistance to • Quoted by Turner, History, vol. ii!. p. 450, from Ilarl. MS. 433. 1483.] ALLEGED rRETIOUS MARRIAGP: OF EDWARD IV. ISi the execution of the barbarous designs of the duke. * If Eobert Stillington,the bishop of Bath and Wells, who had been chancellor in the time ofEdward IV., revealed this mystery to Gloucester after he had assumed theprotectorate, it is easy to conceive how tliis revelation would have given anew impulse to his ambition. On the 22ud of June, Ralph Shaw, the brotherof the lord mayor of London, delivered a sermon at Pauls Cross, taking ashis text, The multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor takedeep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation. t Of thissermon, Fabyan, who was a resident in the city at that time, is probably themost accurate reporter. He says, that the protector, with the duke of. The Great Hall. Crosby Place. Buckingham, and other lords being present, by the mouth of Dr. EalphShaw, in the time of his sermon, was there showed openly that the childrenof king Edward the Eoiirth were not legitimate, nor rightful inheritors of thecrown, with many dis-slanderous words, in preferring of the title of the saidlord protector, and of disannulling of the other. J The ecclesiastics of thatage, if they gave their confident belief to the story that Edward had beenmarried, or even contracted, to another lady previous to his marriage withthe queen, without a papal dispensation, would have agreed in pronouncingthe princes illegitimate. On the 24th of June, two days after the PaulsCross Sermon, the duke of Buckingham harangued the citizens at theGuildhall, rehearsing the right and title which the protector had to be pre- lUmoivs, book v. chap, xviii. f
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