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 to die for a riot in King Edward's reign, and saved by her means, as he saw her pass along, in gratitude for her kindness, trundled a penny loaf after her, which she thankfully took, and blessed him, with tears in her eyes. But some malicious neighbour informing against him, he was taken up and hanged, for disobeying King Richard's proclamation; which so terrified others, that they durst not relieve her with any thing, so that in miserable rags, and almost naked, she went about a most shocking spectacle, wringing her hands, and bemoaning her unhappy circumstance.

Thus she continued till the battle of BodworthBosworth [sic] field, wherein Richard was killed by Henry Earl of Richmond, who succeeded him, by the name of Henry the seventh, in which reign she hoped for better days; but fortune raised her another adversary, for he married the eldest daughter of Edward the fourth; and King Edward's Queen, who mortally hated her, then bearing a great sway, soon procured