[N] For view of this castle, see page [273].

[O] The husband with whom she had lived before she became acquainted with Edward was a wealthy goldsmith and jeweler.

[P] See [Frontispiece].

[Q] I say he determined; for, although some of Richard's defenders have denied that he was guilty of the crime which the almost unanimous voice of history charges upon him, the evidence leaves very little room to doubt that the dreadful tale is in all essential particulars entirely true.

[R] The Earl of Dorset, you will recollect, was Queen Elizabeth's son by her first marriage; he, consequently, had no claim to the crown.


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