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 then to walk barefooted and bare-headed, in her shirt, before her procession, with a cross and a wax taper in her hand, through Cheapside, which she did, looking so lovely in her blushes, that many pitied her; he also stripped all her friends and relations of whatever they had, pretending that they got it all by her means from the crown, in King Edward's reign; which, with the disgrace their only daughter had fallen into, caused her parent's death.

Richard not content with this, put out a severe proclamation, to this effect. That on the pain of death, and confiscatiouconfiscation [sic] of goods, no one should harbour her in their houses, nor relieve her with food or raiment. So that she went wandering up and down, to find her food upon the bushes and on the dung-hills, where some friends she had raised, would throw out bones with more meat than ordinary, and crusts of stale bread in the places where she generally resorted to, and a baker, who had been condemned