Volume the Second: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 59874
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Richard the 3d
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The Character of this Prince has been ingeneral very severely treated by Historians,but as he was a York, I am rather inclinedto suppose him a very respectable Man. Ithas indeed been confidently aſserted that hekilled his two Nephews & his Wife, but ithas also been declared that he did notkill histwoNephews, which I am inclined tobeleive true; & if this is the case, it may also be affirmed that he did not killhis Wife, for if Perkin Warbeck was really the Duke of York, why might not Lambert
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