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Rh It was the period of "illustrious unfortunates" owing to the constant revolutions that followed fast upon each other.

Wretchedness marked the fate of the Plantagenets and the Nevils, alike remembered for their ambition and their crimes.

The de la Poles were the only family of that time who rose from trade to splendour, and it even exceeded the Nevils in dignity, in power, and in misfortunes. Rh