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 Jane Shore had no sooner notice of the death of Lord Hastings, her paramour, but she perceived a storm was falling on her own head, therefore, she thought it necessary to provide in time, and so carried her jewels to her old confident, Mrs Blague, intreating her to conceal them for her; but she, like a faithless woman, when Jane came, asking for them not only denying them, but when in the greatest need, she came to crave alms from her she thrust her out of doors, threatening to have her whipped for her impudence.

Richard, by means aforesaid, having got to the crown, and to make himself seem fair, by others fine, though he was a monster by nature, publicly declaring his mother to be a whore, his brother and his children to be bastards; caused his Queen to be poisoned, and would have wedded his niece. He ordered Jane Shore to be apprehended, stripped of all she had and to do pennance, by several times walking in a white sheet, and