Posted on 05/06/2021 6:40:37 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
I shall rehearse you the dolorous end of those babes, not after every way that I have heard, but after that way thay I have so hard by such men & by such meanes, as me thinketh it wer hard but it should be true. King Richarde after his coronacion, takyng his way to Gloucester to visit in his newe honor, the towne of which he bare the name of his old, devised as he roode, to fulfil that thing which he before had intended. And forasmuch as his minde gave him, that his nephewes living, men woulde not recken that hee could have right to the realm, he thought therfore without delay to rid them, as though the killing of his kinsmen, could amend his cause, and make him a kindly king. Whereuppon he sent one John Grene whom he specially trusted, unto sir Robert Brakenbury constable of the Tower, with a letter and credence also, that the same sir Robert shoulde in any wise put the two children to death. This John Grene did his errande unto Brakenbery kneling before our Lady in the Tower, who plainely answered that he would never putte them to death to dye therfore, with which answer Jhon Grene returning recounted the same to Kynge Richarde at Warwick yet in his way. Wherwith he toke such displeasure and thought, that the same night, he said unto a secret page of his: Ah whome shall a man trust? those that I have brought up my selfe, those that I had went would most surely serve me, even those fayle me, and at my commaundemente wyll do nothyng for me...
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Richard III?...................
Of course, some say Thomas Moore created the image of Richard III as a hunchbacked murderer, as a propagandist for the real killer of the Princes in the Tower, Tudor usurper Henry VII.
In this light, Moore seems almost as reliable as having Adam Schiff pen the history of the Trump administration.
“History has known many great liars: Copernicus, Goebbels, Saint Ralph the Liar ... but there have been none quite so vile as the Tudor king Henry the 7th. It was he who rewrote history to portray his predecessor, Richard the 3rd, as a deformed maniac who killed his nephews in the Tower.” — The Black Adder S1:E1
One thing is for sure. They were bad spellers back then!
William Shakespeare portrayed Richard III as a bad guy. His portrayal was probably unfair. I find the subject of Richard III fascinating.
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