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Margaret curses Richard and the kingdom. To counter any claims to the crown, Richard confines his nephews, the young Prince of Wales and his brother, in the Tower of London.

Buckingham assists Richard's rise to power by helping persuade the Lord Mayor and the people of London to support their faction. Richard has Lord Hastings, the Lord Chamberlain, executed for attempting to thwart him.

Richard also sends an assassin to smother the princes in the tower in their sleep. Buckingham suspects Richard's role in the death of the young princes. Then when he is denied an earldom, Buckingham seeks to raise an army against Richard. Richard captures and executes him. He has his current wife, Anne, murdered. Wolfe could reply to his article someone else, in the person of Dr. Thompson, entered the controversy. After this came Dr. The evidence of the Acts of Court is obviously crucial to the whole argument and it was examined in detail, as an edition of a sixteenth-century copy of lost fifteenth-century originals, of posible mistakes by the copier and of the dating of the entries, by Anne Sutton and P.

This entry must therefore refer to another year. This article was the last one on this controversy until Dr. Finally, Hastings goes off to the council meeting along with Buckingham. Rivers laments their impending execution. He tells Ratcliffe that they are being killed for nothing but their loyalty, and that their killers will eventually pay for their crimes. Rivers reminds Gray that Margaret also cursed Richard and his allies.

He prays for God to remember these curses but to forgive the one Margaret pronounced against Elizabeth herself, and her two young sons, the princes. The three embrace and prepare for their deaths. Richard arrives, smiling and pleasant, and asks the Bishop of Ely to send for a bowl of strawberries.



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