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 mistresses, of quite different tempers, one the most religious, and the other the merriest in England, and indeed she was held in great favour all the reign of the King, having crowds of petitioners waiting at her 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 of her, she procured of the King a stately house and Manor, worth £280 a year. The Romish Priests much spited her, because she sheltered many from their rage and fury, after they had burned John Huss for a heretic.

As no worldly pomp nor greatness is of long continuance, so now her glory was ended, and her days of in- expressible misery began; for the king dying at Westminster, in the fortieth year of his reign, no sooner was he buried in the chapel of his own founding, at Windsor, but Crook- back'd Richard, his brother, who murder'd Henry VI. and prince