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Rh prevailed upon to take the kingdom. King Henry VII. obtaining it upon the duchess's death, rebuilt it, says Stow in his History of London, more in the manner of a palace than a castle. Berkhampstead castle also came again into the crown; in this castle king James I. had his children brought up; it was burnt in the reign of king Charles I. and now there is scarce a vestige remaining.

Though these were the usual, yet they were not the only residences of the duchess, for in August 1475, in the reign of king Edward IV, she was at the Mitred abbey of St. Bennet at Holm, in the parish of Horning in Norfolk; this we learn by a letter which Sir John Paston wrote to his son: in it he says, "My lady of York, and all her household, were there, and where me proposed to reside until the king her son came from beyond the sea, and longer if she liked the air there, as it was said." Edward IV. was then in France.

In the reign of king Richard III. she resided in London, but she died at her castle of Berkhampstead, and was buried at her own desire at Fotheringay, in Northamptonshire, by the duke of York, her late husband; of whose splendid funeral Sandford gives a particular relation; it was all but regal: she died in more frugal times. The chancel of the choir being destroyed, queen Elizabeth, her great-great-granddaughter, ordered the bodies of this illustrious couple to be placed in a vault prepared for that purpose in the church. Rh

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