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18 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 her power ſhe preferred. As for Mrs Blague, who leaſt deſerved it of her ſhe procured of the King a ſtately houſe and manor worth 2801. per annum. The Romiſh prieſts were ſpighted at her, becauſe ſhe ſheltered many from their rage and fury, after they had burned John Hall for a heretic.

As no worldly 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 chapel of his own founding, at Windſor, but ’Crookbacked Richard, his brother, who murdered Henry VI, and Prince