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 of quite different tempers, one of the most religious and the other the merriest in England; and indeed she was had in great favour all the reign of the King, having crowds of petitioners waiting at the chamber door, or at the chariot side when she was to ride abroad, whose suits to the utmost of she preferred. As for Mrs Blague, who least deserved it of her, procured of the King a stately house and manor, worth about two hundred and eighty pounds per annum. The Romish priests were spighted at her, because she sheltered many from their rage and fury, after they burned John Hall for a heretic.

As no wordly pomp nor greatness is of long continuance, so now her glory it was ended, and her days of inexpressible misery began; for the King dying at Westminster, in the 40th year of his age, no sooner was he buried in the ceapelchapel [sic] of his own founding, at Windsor, but Crook-backed Richard, his brother, who murdered Prince Henry the VI. and