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 and so she carried her jewels to her old confident, Mrs Blague, entreating her to conceal them for her, but she, like a faithless woman, when Jane came and asked for them, not only denied them, but when, in the greatest need she came to crave alms of her, she thrust her out of doors, threatning to have her whipped for her impudence.

Richard, by means aforesaid, having got to the crown, and to make himself seem fair by others' sins, 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 our Jane Shore to be apprehended stripped of all she had, and do penance by several times walking in a white sheet, and then walk bare-footed and bare headed in her shift before the procession, with a cross and was taper in her hand, through Cheapside, which she did, looking so lovely in her blushes, that many one pitied her; he also