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detestable enormities. His men every where sought for safety by flight.--Then fell in this battle about 4000 of the vanquished: and, among these, the duke of Norfolk, and Sir Robert Brackenbury--Sir William Catesby, a great instrument of Richard's crimes, was taken, and soon after beheaded, with some others, at leicester. The loss was inconsiderable on the side of the victors. The body of Richard was found in the field covered with dead enemies, and all besmeared with blood. It was thrown carelessly across a horse was carried to Leicester, amidst the shout of insulting spectators; and was interred in the Gray-Friars' church of that place. The historians who favour Richard (for even this tyrant has met with partisans among the later writers) maintain that he was well qualified for government, had he legally attained it; and that he was guilty of no crime but such as were necessary to procure him possession of the crown; but this is a poor apology for injustice, cruelty, and murder. Richard was of a small stature, humpbacked, and had a hard disagreeable countenance; so that his body was no less deformed than his mind.

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