Excerpt from The Unpopular King, Vol. 2 of 2: The Life and Times of Richard III Sir Thomas More's Narrative - Avowedly Unaccredited - More than Im. Probable - Wholly Inconsistent with Earlier Narratives - Some of its Difficulties considered - T estimony of Polydore Vergil - And of Andreas -prevailing Belief at the Accession of Henry VII. - And of that Monarch himself - Confirmed by the Attitude of Cardinal Bourchier - More's Autho rities - The Story of the R???-interment of the Princes a Fabrication Testimony of Lord Bacon ...
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Excerpt from The Unpopular King, Vol. 2 of 2: The Life and Times of Richard III Sir Thomas More's Narrative - Avowedly Unaccredited - More than Im. Probable - Wholly Inconsistent with Earlier Narratives - Some of its Difficulties considered - T estimony of Polydore Vergil - And of Andreas -prevailing Belief at the Accession of Henry VII. - And of that Monarch himself - Confirmed by the Attitude of Cardinal Bourchier - More's Autho rities - The Story of the R???-interment of the Princes a Fabrication Testimony of Lord Bacon - Tyrell's Guilt first suggested in 1502 - Not Knighted, as More afiirms, as a Reward for his Crime - His Confession Unaccredited - Would not have been passed over by Fabyan - Polydore Vergil's Narrative compared with More's - The Murder of the Princes a Hypothesis - Richard's Complicity a Historical Assumption - Horace Walpole on the alleged Confession of Tyrell - Address of the Clergy to the King inconsistent with a suspicion of his Guilt - The Time of the Disap pearance of the Princes - The alleged Defection of Yorkist Barons from the King a Myth - The Berkeleys - Probability that the Duke of York died a Natural Death - The Disappearance of the Princes an Unsolved Mystery - Possible Solutions considered - A New One suggested - Unscrupulous Character of Richard's ministers-motives to the Removal of the Princes - Buckingham aware of their Death three days before Richard's alleged Commission to Tyrell - Morton and the Countess of Richmond said to have conspired to murder them - Buckingham's anxiety to attach the odium of the Murder to Richard - Morton's Suspicion that Buckingham was Playing a Double Game - The Duke's Desire for an Interview with Richard before his Execution - Catesby and Ratclifie - Brackenbury would not sanction Violence - Reasons for Richard's silence - Object of Henry vii.'s Inquiry - No Evidence that he did not find the Princes alive in the Tower - Richard ignorant of their Fate - If murdered, the Duke of Buck. Ingham the probable Criminal - Skeletons found in the reign of Charles 11. -the Question of their Identity with the Remains of the Princes discussed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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