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them, not only denied them, but when, in the greatest need, she came to crave alma of her, she thrust her but of doors, threatening 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, publickly 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 wax taper in her hand, through Cheapside, which she did, looking so lovely in her blushes, that many a one pitied her; he also stripped all her friends and relations of whatever they had, pretending they had got it all by her means from the crown in king Edward's reign; which, with the disgrace their only daughter was fallen into, caused her parents’ death Richard, not content with this, put out a severe proclamation to this effect: That on the pain of death and confiscation of goods, no one should harbour her in their