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154 there in the abbats place.' Holinshed, iii. 715. More, 19/1.

Cardinal. According to More, 25/28 (Holinshed's authority), the Cardinal who undertook the mission of bringing the Duke of York out of sauctuary was Rotherham, Archbishop of York. In Halle, 352, the Cardinal of Act III, sc. i, is Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury. Critics are divided in opinion as to whether Shakespeare intended to present more than one personage.

What my brother marquesse hath donne I cannot saie, but in good faith I dare well answer for mine vncle Riuers and my brother here, that they be innocent of anie such matter. Holinshed, iii. 715. More, 17/31.

'When the king approched neere to the citie, Edmund Shaw, goldsmith, then maior, with William White, and Iohn Matthew, shiriffes, and all the other aldermen in scarlet, with fiue hundred horsse of the citizens, in violet, receiued him reuerentlie at Harnesie; and riding from thence accompanied him into the citie, which he entered the fourth daie of Maie, the first and last yeare of his reigne.' Holinshed, iii. 716. More, 22/24.

pluck him perforce. Richard, after advising that 'my lord cardinall' be sent to fetch the Duke of York out of sanctuary, added, 'And if she be percase so obstinate, and so preciselie set vpon hir owne will then shall we, by mine aduise, by the kings anthoritie, fetch him out of that prison. ' Holinshed. iii. 717. More, 24/25.

God [in heaven] forbid We should infringe the holy privilege Of blessed sanctuary. 'God forbid that anie man should, for anie thing earthlie, enterprise to breake the immunitie & libertie of the sacred sanctuarie. ' Holinshed, iii. 717. More,