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Identifier: imperialcourtsof00bidw (find matches)
Title: Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Bidwell, Walter Hilliard, 1798-1881, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Courts and courtiers. (from old catalog) Statesmen. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rpose againstsuch men ; and still more that he should seriously persistin the resolution of executing it. But the entreaties of hisQueen saved his memory from that infamy. She threwherself on her knees before him, (see the engraving,) and,Avith tears in her eyes, begged the lives of these citizens.Having obtained her request, she led them into her tent, PHILIPPA AND THE BURGESSES OF CALAIS. 215 ordered a repast to be set before them, and, after makingtbem a present of money and clothes, dismissed them insafety. Noble woman ! Illustrious Queen! worthy of undy-ing remembrance on the pages of fame ! We have desiredto perj^etuate her name and the glory of her deed of richl:)euevolence, in our humljle measure, by illustrating it onthe plate, and lay the record of it on these pages. Weonly add that Edward took possession of Calais, and orderedall the inhal^itants to evacuate the city, which he repeo-pled with Enghsh, in place of French, who, the king knew,regarded him as their mortal enemy.
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vm isyciiiiflNii RICHARD III. AND TIIE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. As this piint illustrates a chajiter in English history ofsad and tragic interest, a brief explanation may not be un-acceptable. The character of Richard III. is well known tothe readers of English history. Ambitious, unprincipled,talented, and treacherous, he aspired to the throne of Eng-land. He planned and plotted, and paused at no sanguin-ary means or measures to accomplish his object. Hebathed his hands in blood, and achieved the purpose of hisdark and cruel ambition. On the death of Edward IV., theCouncil of State invested him with the office of Protectorof the realm. Hitherto, says the historian, Richard had been ableto cover, by the most profound dissimulation, his fierce andsavage nature. The numerous issue of Edward and thetwo children of Clarence seemed to be an eternal obstacleto his ambition. But a man who had abandoned all prin-cijjles of honor and humanity was soon carried, by his pre-dominant passion, beyond th

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