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 CHAPTER XII.

THE WARS OF THE ROSES.—1422 TO 1461.

EDWARD IV.

1. The civil wars may be said to have lasted thirty years, from the first battle at St. Alban's, in 1455, to the battle of Bosworth, in 1485; for