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14 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, almost naked; she went about a most shocking spectacle, wringing her hands, and bemoaning her unhappy fate.

Thus she continued till the battle of Bosworth field, where Richard was slain by Henry Earl of Richmond, who succeeded him the name of Heary the VII. in which reign she hoped for better days ; but fortune raised her another aniversary, for he married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward. IV. and King Edward's Queen, who mortably hated her, then bearing greats way, another proclamation was issued to the same eff o and so she wandered up and down, in as poor and miserable a condition as before, till growing old, and utterly friendless, she finished her life in a ditch which was from thence called Sh 's Ditch, adjoining Bishopsgate-street.

Thus you may see the rise and fall of this once stately; and then unhappy woman, with whose dying lamentation I shall conclude.

THE DYING LAMENTATION OF

MRS. JANE SHORE.

Good People. THOUGH, by the riguor of the law you are forbidden to give me any relief, yet you may pity my unhappy state, for the Scripture saith, That