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To: miss marmelstein
They weren’t scattered, by the way, they were found in a chest.

"Scattered" was a sarcastic reference to your post, which used the image, to which I replied. Do try to keep up; if not with me, at least with your own writing.

The rest of your reply is more nonsense. The bones were where More said they'd be. They were exhumed in 1674, at which time no dating of the remains on the basis of depth or any other science would have been even remotely possible. But we do know this: There is no historical record of any other children having been buried in the Tower. We also know the White Tower was built in 1078, six centuries after the fall of Rome.

Please learn some history; you're embarrassing yourself here.

they cannot determine whether it is a girl or a boy

Another Ricardian distraction, which is typical. It was not determined, because no attempt to determine such was ever made. That doesn't mean "they cannot determine" it. Does a contemporary document mention the burial of a young female and her brother in the Tower? Nope. No such claim has ever been made, except by Ricardians pretending that it was routine to bury people in places mentioned by Chancellors of England.

As for what was or was not mentioned in the children's history, degenerative bone loss is indeed consistent with murder by starvation, and that was one of several contemporaneous theories in circulation while Richard III was still alive.

But second, and far more importantly, you won't -- and can't, any more than your murderous hero could -- refute claims against Richard by the simplest means of all: If he didn't murder them, why didn't their traitorous uncle produce them alive?

59 posted on 09/17/2014 3:41:10 PM PDT by FredZarguna (His first name is 'Unarmed,' and his given middle name is 'Teenager.')
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To: FredZarguna

If you read More properly, you’d know that he said they were originally buried under a staircase and then moved. Moved, ok? The bones were exhumed from the urn in the 1930s and examined by two dentists. Their paper is available through the Richard the Third Society - with no skewed point of view - simply the findings of the doctors. Unfortunately, they worked from the assumption that the children were the princes and so identified them as such. That would never happen today with DNA testing. This is how it got into the water that one of the princes had jaw disease. The bones could not, at that time, be identified as either male or female - they were too young and undeveloped.

More grew up in the household of John Morton - a Lancastrian who brought about the death of Richard the Third. A man who deserves a book of his own - Morton’s Fork!

More’s book was never published in his lifetime and people are still perplexed by it. I suppose you believe Richard was born with a full set of teeth and hair down to his shoulders?


60 posted on 09/17/2014 3:49:49 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: FredZarguna
Can not believe this thread has such vicious rhetoric for an event that happened over 500 years ago.

Not an expert on British monarchy, but if half of what was true in the "Tudors" series, then Henry VIII had to be the most villainous of all.

62 posted on 09/17/2014 3:54:03 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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