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Title: Dicken's works
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: Boston : Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Warbeck as King Eichard the Fourth.That there was some such plot is likely; that theywere tempted into it is at least as likely; that theunfortunate Earl of Warwick — last male of thePlantagenet line — was too unused to the world,and too ignorant and simple, to know much aboutit, whatever it was, is perfectly certain; and that itwas th© Kings interest to get rid of him is no lessso. He was beheaded on Tower Hill, and PerkinWarbeck was hanged at Tyburn. Such was the end of the pretended Duke of York,whose shadowy history was made more shadowy —and ever will be — by the mystery and craft of theKing. If he had turned his great natural advan-tages to a more honest account, he might have liveda happy and respected life, even in those days. Buthe died upon a gallows at Tyburn, leaving the Scot-tish lady, who had loved him so well, kindly pro-tected at the Queens court. After some time sheforgot her old loves and troubles, as many peopledo with Times merciful assistance, and married
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A childs history of ENGLAND. 343 a Welsh gentleman. Her second husband, SirMatthew Cradoc, more honest and more happythan her first, lies beside her in a tomb in the oldchurch of Swansea. The ill blood between France and England in thisreign arose out of the continued plotting of theDuchess of Burgundy, and disputes respecting theaffairs of Brittany. The King feigned to be verypatriotic, indignant, and warlike; but he alwayscontrived so as never to make war in reality, andalways to make money. His taxation of the people,on pretence of war with France, involved, at onetime, a very dangerous insurrection, headed by SirJohn Egremont, and a common man called John kChambre. But it was subdued by the Eoyal forces,under the command of the Earl of Surrey. Theknighted John escaped to the Duchess of Burgundy,who was ever ready to receive any one who gavethe King trouble; and the plain John was hangedat York, in the midst of a number of his men, buton a much higher gibbet, as being a greater tra

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