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( 24 ) lived him, and was ſet at liberty after his deceaſe, by her ſon Richard, who ſucceeded his father.

King Henry having wrecked his vengeance on the murderers of his beloved Roſamond, cauſed her body to be taken out of that obſcure cavein which the queen had cauſed her to be laid, and buried her with all the funeral pomp imaginable at Godflow near Oxford, and erected to her memory a ſtately tomb, on which was the followin inſcription.

This was the end of fair Roſamond, who, ha ſhe not been led aſtray by King Henry, with th glittering tinſel of royalty, might have made wife worthy of the greateſt peer in England.