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  [46] More, The History of King Richard III, p. 5.

  [47] Edward Hall, Chronicle, p. 254.

  [48] Robins, Historical Poems, p. 218.

  [49] Ibid.

  [50] Comines, The History of Comines, vol. 2, p. 440.

  [51] More, The History of King Richard III, p. 62.

  [52] Edward Hall, Chronicle, p. 264.

  [53] More, The History of King Richard III, p. 62.

  [54] Holinshed, Chronicles, p. 284.

  [55] Edward Hall, Chronicle, p. 295.

  [56] Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act 4, Scene 6.

  [57] Edward Hall, Chronicle, p. 295.

  [58] Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, Scene .

  [59] Davis, Paston Letters, part I. p. 440.

  [60] Davies, Medieval English Lyrics, pp. 173-175.

  [61] Ibid., pp. 191-192.

  [62] Mancini, The Usurpation of Richard III, p. 67.

  [63] More, The History of Richard III, p. 57.

  [64] Ibid., p. 56.

  [65] “Memoirs of the Lives of King Edward IV and Jane Shore,” p. 14.

  [66] “The woful lamentation of Jane Shore.”

  [67] Myers, The Household of Edward IV, p. 123.

  [68] Mancini, The Usurpation of Richard III, p. 67.

  [69] Ibid., p. 59.

  [70] Robbins, Historical Poems, p. 111.

  [71] More, The History of Richard III, p. 8.

  [72] More, Utopia, p. 7.

  [73] Holinshed, Chronicles, p. 380.

  [74] Ibid., p. 381.

  [75] More, The History of Richard III, p. 55.

  [76] Ibid., p. 42.

  [77] Ibid., p. 68.

  [78] Ibid., p. 69.

  [79] Mancini, The Usurpation of Richard III, p. 132n.

  [80] Rawcliffe, The Staffords, p. 35.

  [81] More, The History of Richard III, p. 85.

  [82] Ibid., p. 88.

  [83] Ibid., pp. 89-90.

  [84] Chrimes, Henry VII, p. 329.

  [85] “A short view of the long life.”

  [86] Ibid.

  [87] Ibid.

  [88] Holinshed, Chronicles, p. 414.

  [89] The son, too, of the man Margaret Beaufort was once to have married.

  [90] Pollard, The Reign of Henry VII, vol. I, pp. 4-6.

  [91] “A short view of the long life.”

  [92] C. R. N. Routh, They Saw It Happen, p. 2.

  [93] Sneyd, A Relation, p. 21.

  [94] Ibid., pp. 20—21.

  [95] Ibid., p. 24.

  [96] Davies, Medieval English Lyrics, pp. 224-225.

  [97] Clendening, Source Book, p. 77.

  [98] Rubin, Medieval English Medicine, p. 101.

  [99] Clendening, Source Book, p. 77.

  [100] Ibid., pp. 76-77.

  [101] Ibid., p. 78.

  [102] Ibid., p. 79.

  [103] Hindley, England in the Age of Caxton, p. 240.

  [104] Ibid., p. 241.

  [105] Gairdner, Houses of Lancaster and York, p. 224.

  [106] Rowse, Bosworth Field, p. 254.

  [107] Comines, The History of Comines, vol. 2, p. 52.

  [108] Ibid., p. 50.

  [109] Hughes, Tudor Proclamations, p.3.

  [110] Bullough, Narrative and Dramatic Sources, p. 349.

  [111] “A short view of the long life.”

  [112] Brereton, “The Most Pleasant Song,” p. 78.

  [113] Robbins, Historical Poems, p. 148.

  [114] Ibid., p. 184.

  [115] Cooper, Memoir of Margaret, pp. 35-36.

  [116] Fuller, The History of the Worthies, p. 454.

  [117] Strickland, Lives of the Queens, p. 425.

  [118] Sneyd, A Relation, pp. 97-100.

  [119] Robbins, Historical Poems, p. 95.

  [120] Strickland, Lives of the Queens, p. 427.

  [121] Edward Hall, Chronicle, p. 425.

  [122] Talbot, Medicine in Medieval England, p. 131.

  [123] Edward Hall, Chronicle, p. 426.

  [124] Cooper, Memoir of Margaret, pp. 34-35.

  [125] Myers, Household Book, p. 116.

  [126] Cooper, Memoir of Margaret, pp. 97-98.

  [127] Strickland, Lives of the Queens, p. 435.

  [128] Cooper, Memoir of Margaret, pp. 45-46.

  [129] Ibid., p. 64.

  [130] Ibid., p. 67.

  [131] Himes, Medical History of Contraception, p. 180.

  [132] Cooper, Memoir of Margaret, p. 18.

  [133] Reynolds, Saint John Fisher, pp. 24—25.

  [134] Ibid.

  [135] Robbins, Historical Poems, pp. 152-157.

  [136] Davis, Paston Letters, part 2, pp. 484-485, February 10, 1497-1503.

  [137] Ibid., p. 485; not after April 10, 1504.

  [138] Robbins, Historical Poems, pp. 144-145.

  [139] Pollard, The Reign of Henry VII, vol. I, p. 160.

  [140] Ibid.

  [141] Ibid.

  [142] Hughes, Tudor Royal Proclamations, pp. 12-13.

  [143] Davis, Paston Letters, part 2, p. 478.

  [144] Edward Hall, Chronicle, p. 493.

  [145] Ibid., p. 494.

  [146] Strickland, Lives of the Queens, p. 444.

  [147] More, The History of King Richard III, pp. 119-122.

  [148] Pollard, The Reign of Henry VII, vol. I, pp. 57-58.

  [149] Ibid., vol. 3, p. 299.

  [150] Ibid., p. 295.

  [151] Ibid., pp. 324—325.

  [152] Ibid., pp. 327-328.

  [153] Ibid., p. 329.

  [154] Ibid., pp. 298-299.

  [155] Ibid., pp. 317-318.

  [156] Ibid., p. 329.

  [157] Reynolds, Saint John Fisher, p. 25.

  [158] Cooper, Memoir of Margaret, p. 132.

  [159] Ibid., p. 132.

  [160] Froude, Divorce, pp. 32-33.

  [161] Reynolds, Saint John Fisher, pp. 26-27.

  [162] Surtz, The Works and Days, p. 183.

  [163] Ibid., p. 184.

  [164] Fisher, English Works, p. 291.

  [165] Froude, Divorce, p. 32.

  [166] Surtz, The Works and Days, p. 355.

  [167] St. Clare Byrne, The Letters of King Henry VIII, p. 55.

  [168] Ibid., pp. 56-57.

  [169] Surtz, The Works and Days, p. 89.

  [170] Surtz, The Works and Days, p. 175.

  [171] Hughes, Tudor Royal Proclamations, pp. 210, 211.

  [172] Surtz, The Works and Days, p. 89.

  [173] Ibid.

  [174] Edward Hall, Chronicle, p. 119.