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who became the source of power. Immediately after his death he was exposed on a board, naked from the waist upwards for ten hours, so that the lords spiritual and temporal, and the Lord Mayor and aldermen of London might see that he had no violence. He was then buried in Westminster Abbey, and with great pomp and ceremony.

Edward IV. was a man calculated to make a great figure in rude and martial times. He was handsome, lively of disposition, affable and brave. So long as